The "BIG BOOK OF BOXING" magazines

"BIG BOOK OF BOXING" Review:  By Brian Zelley

Introduction

The Victory Sports series by G.C London Publishing Corp.

publishes a series of excellent magazines under the eyes of 

Stanley Weston.

FEBRUARY 1977, review

Included some fine articles such as:

"The Lost Art Of Body Punching",

"Zamora and Zarate" - Bantamweight champons,

"The Night They Put A Tarnished Crown

On Jimmy Ellis; Head",

"The Wildest Title Fight In History",

"The Greatest Fights Of The Last 25 Years"

Greatest Fights (1951 - 1976)

.As should be expected the fight for 1958 was

the light-heavyweight title fight between Archie Moore 

and Yvon Durelle that took place on December 10th.

.The 1962 fight featured middleweight champion

GENE FULLMER vs. DICK TIGER.  It was a wild

fight that saw Tiger win the title.

,The 1969 title fight saw Ruben Olivares win the 

bantamweight championship from Lionel Rose.


NOVEMBER  1975

Good cross-section of articles on Joe Frazier, Clyde Gray,
Emile Griffith Joe Louis, Sandy Saddler and Bobo Olson.
British Heavyweights and Jack Slattery.


The article on Emile Griffith was titled
"EMILE GRIFFITH - BOXING'S 'IRON MAN'"

1965 BOXING

"BOXING & WRESTLING" magazine review:  By Brian Zelley

A "Complete Sports" publication with the outstanding LOU SAHADI
as the editor.  The authors of the various articles included:
Lester Bromberg, Archie Moore, Herb Elk, George Girsch,
Jerry Prater, Robert  D. Willis, and  Jerry Prater.


From my reading chair the best article was
"EDER JOFRE: WORLD'S GREATEST FIGHTER"


The sub heading narrative said it all:
"Eder Jofre's rule over the bantamweights is absolute.  He's undefeated 
in 49 pro fights and his combination of power with class is unmatched
by fighters today."


In the opening paragraph of the story, the article compared him to 
the ex-heavyweight champion ROCKY MARCIANO who was also
undefeated in 49 pro fights.  And MSG promoter Harry Markson
had positive things to say about Jofre, "He's the complete fighter
-exciting, capable, just awfully good."


Another good article of interest was by Lester Bromberg:
"JOEY ARCHER:  UNCROWNED MIDDLEWEIGHT 
CHAMPION."  The first major reference in the story was
the fact that Joey had scored victories over Rubin Carter
and Dick Tiger, and the assumption that champion
Joey Giardello was ducking him.
NOTE - Years later there would be Lou Sahadi's
"BOXING SCENE" magazine

BOXING ANNUAL review

BOXING ANNUAL 1963:  By Brian Zelley

A boxing annual for 1963, number 1 issue, was published by

"Whitestone Publications Inc." and had some interesting articles

by the following:  

Hugh Barry, Claude Lewis, Barry Gottehrer, Jim Scott,  Phil Pepe,

Eddie Brennan, Bill Libby, Barney Nagler, Jack Powers, Al Stump,

and Paul Gallico.  Editor was Les Greene and President  Georgr Free.

THE NON-HEAVYWEIGHTS

Much of the publication was devoted to heavyweight boxing, but

there were some good articles about other boxers.

"The Tiger's 11-year Hunt" by Pepe

Interesting article about Nigerian boxer DICK TIGER winning

the Middleweight title from GENE FULLMER at Candlestick

Park in San Fransisco.

"The Gypsy Champ" by Bill Libby

A story about world featherweight champion DAVEY MOORE.

The article included a photo of Davey's title fight against the

Finnish  champion OLLI MAKI.

Quote from WILLIE KETCHUM, "I've seen the real greats of 

the division and I've never seen any in their best days that was

better than Davey."

THE HEAVYWEIGHTS

The various articles included were about EDDIE MACHEN

and DOUG JONES along with FLOYD PATTERSON, 

CASSIUS CLAY and SONNY LISTON.

Also, Barney Nagler listed his top ten greatest heavies:

Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmonds, Jim Jeffries, Jack Johnson,

Sam Langford, Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney,

Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano and Sonny Liston.