The Ring (magazine)
| The Ring | |
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| description | oldest American boxing magazine |
| Area of Expertise | Boxing (only) |
| language | English |
| Headquarters |
 los Angeles
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| First edition | February 15, 1922 |
| Editor-in-chief | Nigel Collins |
| Web link | official website |
The Ring (also The Ring Magazine ) is the oldest surviving boxing magazine in the United States .
The Ring was co-founded in 1922 by Nat Fleischer who became sole owner in 1929 and ran it until his death in 1972.
The first issue of Ring Magazine was published February 15, 1922, it was 24 pages and cost 20 cents.
Like formerly competing KO Magazine and World Boxing, it is published by London Publications . From 1972 to 1979, Fleischer's son-in-law Nat Loubet was the publisher; the current editor-in-chief is Nigel Collins . Óscar de la Hoya's company Golden Boy Enterprises has owned boxing magazine since 2007.
Ring leaderboards
Like practically all boxing magazines and websites, the magazine publishes its own ranking lists.
In recent years, the debate about supporters at ESPN and HBO has intensified as to whether an overarching ranking list, such as B. "The Ring" should be used as a measure of performance. Due to the many world associations with partly different regulations, there are numerous different world champions in the same weight class. Furthermore, in modern boxing the fights are not agreed solely on the basis of the sporting challenge, but rather the opponents are selected primarily with regard to the fight exchange.
In addition to the rankings for the individual weight classes, there is also a weight class-independent ranking (Best Pound for Pound Fighter in the World).
Annual awards
The Ring Magazine presents awards in the following categories:
- Ring Magazine Boxer of the Year
- Ring Magazine Fight of the Year
- Ring Magazine Knockout of the Year
- Ring Magazine Comeback of the Year
- Ring Magazine Event of the Year
- Ring Magazine Round of the Year
Further awards
- Ring Magazine Pound for Pound
- Ring Magazine Trainer of the Year
- Ring Magazine Boxer of the Decade
- List of the 100 best puncher of all time
World Champion
Ring Magazine has been awarding the world champion belt in the respective weight classes since 1922 .
Reigning world champions are the following:
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ring Magazine on BoxRec
- ↑ Ring leaderboards
- ↑ Comment ( Memento of the original from April 12, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
