Boxing news

JimmyJamJerusalem · Post by **JimmyJamJerusalem** » 29 Aug 2005, 06:15

All the newsagents around here have stopped selling boxing news, and I cannot get hold of it anymore. Do they do a subscription, and if so do any of you fellas have a number/website??

KOJOE90 · Post by **KOJOE90** » 29 Aug 2005, 07:31

You can subscribe online or by phone all the details are here.

http://www.boxingnewsonline.net/home.asp

Hope that helps.

JimmyJamJerusalem · Post by **JimmyJamJerusalem** » 29 Aug 2005, 07:57

El mucho appreciado

tonyevs · Post by **tonyevs** » 29 Aug 2005, 12:16

Just in time for another price-hike

Its really amusing how they dress up the price increase,

New features on fitness,health and nutrition.

Yep to keep you up to date with boxing

A `shot of the week` piece

This will be a full page, maybe centre-spread of a boxing photo from that week

A `between rounds` a 60 second interview with established and rising fighters

Ali will probably be featured first and then who-ever is on a SN bill that coming week, together with a half page photo

More interviews, big-fight previews and ringside action than before

But don`t they cover all all British fights and all major bills now? Every Fight, Every Punch, Every Week is what it says on the front now

And to get all this in they will be `Doubling in size to 48 pages`

But the pages will be half the size

Every time they have changed the paper size they said its been to get more in, why didn`t they just leave the size how it was because thats what we`ve gone back to, or was it just to add more to the price?

Its still the best publication, but they do take the piss,
I`d be surprissed if they attract more to buy it, its now going to be the price of a magazine but not the quality or size.

john2345 · Post by **john2345** » 29 Aug 2005, 13:05

I've been taking the Boxing News on a 12 month subscription for the past four or five years... This is the best way by far to get the paper. I used to dread Fridays, going into my local newsagent to find that - more often than not - "It hasn't arrived!"

But since I took out the sub, I think it's been late just once. And yes, it's the best boxing paper/magazine by far....

You can also phone 0208 606 7506 to subscribe

J

J · Post by J » 30 Aug 2005, 07:23

ive stopped getting it.
sorry but most the fights have happened0 by the time i get it on a monday morning. Ther last straw came when it was delivered on a weds.

thought fornicate am i subscribing for this. shame cos its good reading but its no fun reading bout fights you know the result of.

steve689 · Post by **steve689** » 30 Aug 2005, 07:27

Boxing News is a great magazine but i always enjoy my Boxing Monthly, seems i am one of a minority there 8)

stujones · Post by **stujones** » 30 Aug 2005, 07:30

steve689 wrote:Boxing News is a great magazine but i always enjoy my Boxing Monthly, seems i am one of a minority there 8)

I'm with you. Pre internet I had to buy both, now with broadband I can live without Boxing News. I still subscribe to BM though, cause it naturally (given the more time) can get more detail about results and other peoples opinions on fights etc.

In recent years I've tended to replace BN with fightnews.

nickd · Post by **nickd** » 30 Aug 2005, 07:58

Save your money and subscribe to Razzle instead, the stories in there are timeless! ;)

Boxing News has had its day, I don't see how a change is going to make it any more appealing. How much are they putting the price up to this time??

Kilburn · Post by **Kilburn** » 30 Aug 2005, 08:06

I gave BM the shove a long time ago but as long as Boxing News remains the best boxing publication in the world and I can get it on a Friday morning then I'll keep buying it every week.

Are people really going to moan about having to shell out a whopping 5p extra (or £2.60 over a year) or whatever the price rise is? Come on...

tonyevs · Post by **tonyevs** » 30 Aug 2005, 08:29

Kilburn wrote:I gave BM the shove a long time ago but as long as Boxing News remains the best boxing publication in the world and I can get it on a Friday morning then I'll keep buying it every week.

Are people really going to moan about having to shell out a whopping 5p extra (or £2.60 over a year) or whatever the price rise is? Come on...

Its an xtra 20per week, its not a great deal for sure it just the fact they dress the price increase up with shite.

How much is BM? the last issue I bought 1991.

kevin · Post by **kevin** » 30 Aug 2005, 08:43

BM is £3.40

tonyevs · Post by **tonyevs** » 30 Aug 2005, 09:25

So BM is £1 more than BN.

But BM is magazine quality and I`d imagine have more than 48pages.

BN gives the results on a weekly basis rather than monthly but lets be honest most of us know the results within a few hours anyway.

I`d imagine it won`t be long before BN has to go monthly because soon the price will be the same as a monthly magazine and this will deter the casual fan from picking it up.

Slapsie Maxie · Post by **Slapsie Maxie** » 30 Aug 2005, 09:32

I rarely buy BM as so much of it is out of date

With BN, my concern is that the price hikes seem to be getting more frequent ( or perhaps I just imagine that ) from £2, to £2.15 can't have been more than a few months ago.

At £2.50 for a weekly, I would begin to balk at shelling out for what I can, to all intents and purposes find on the web

Slapsie

tonyevs · Post by **tonyevs** » 30 Aug 2005, 09:50

Thats my main gripe, BN is excellent and I do enjoy to read it, but the increase which does seem every 6months takes the piss just like every xmas edition..double the price and only double the pictures.

If they need to increase the price to cover costs just tell the truth, don`t dress it up by saying other crap to sell it.

Who wants more photo`s?? more amateur news that just seems to cover the London gyms mostly?

It Boxing News not boxing Photo`s, fill it with news and articles,

If they want to put in amateur then go around ALL the amateur gyms and interview their star boxers, imagine reading about a local amateur boxer from down your road, you`d follow him more carefully and pick up on his fellow gym mates...thus making them a little better ticket sellers...ain`t that the point....and how much encouragment would that give the boxer then....but it seems all the amateur boxers they mention are in the area of the BN offices...stop being so lazy and get out to the lesser known gyms.

Kilburn · Post by **Kilburn** » 30 Aug 2005, 10:04

Personally I'm going to wait until I actually see the new magazine before deciding whether or not it's become a rip off.

kevin · Post by **kevin** » 30 Aug 2005, 10:11

They are just going back to their old style around 1998, but with more pages.

KOJOE90 · Post by **KOJOE90** » 30 Aug 2005, 11:56

Well I for one am looking forward to the return of the A4 format. I never warmed to the 'newspaper' style of the last few years.

steve689 · Post by **steve689** » 30 Aug 2005, 12:14

I like reading Boxing Monthly for Graham Houston's pieces, his write ups both pre and post fight are always interesting. Don't particularly dislike Farhood either even though he likes his metaphors, Ant Evans is a good writer and Ian McNeilly does a few articles these days as well. I like BM.

kevin · Post by **kevin** » 30 Aug 2005, 12:18

and Ian McNeilly does a few articles these days as well. I like BM.[/quote]

Only reason I buy it!!..

He didn't have one in this month's so I left it on the shelf!

Slapsie Maxie · Post by **Slapsie Maxie** » 30 Aug 2005, 12:20

KOJOE90 wrote:Well I for one am looking forward to the return of the A4 format. I never warmed to the 'newspaper' style of the last few years.

I still hanker for the old days of b/w pictures and printing on loo roll paper. Mind you, I still want to pay 70p for it too

nickd · Post by **nickd** » 30 Aug 2005, 12:21

Houston is my favourite boxing writer and his work has been excellent year in year out. Still dont buy BM anymore though as its so out of date by the time it hits the shelves. And I find Glyn Leach tiresome.

kevin · Post by **kevin** » 30 Aug 2005, 12:33

I just hope that moving it to A4 will eradicate the problem of the magazine falling apart which seems to happen most weeks.

Manos de Oro · Post by **Manos de Oro** » 30 Aug 2005, 12:56

Kevin wrote:I just hope that moving it to A4 will eradicate the problem of the magazine falling apart which seems to happen most weeks.

That's why I stopped buying it recently. Also don't like the idea of any trade mag being too expensive - they should be something you can snatch up on a whim with a bit of pocket change.

nickd · Post by **nickd** » 30 Aug 2005, 12:56

Kevin wrote:I just hope that moving it to A4 will eradicate the problem of the magazine falling apart which seems to happen most weeks.

I have the opposite problem with Razzle. ;)