About Ring Magazine: The Larry Holmes edition

[scorpio83]

When I read the Ring Magazine: The Larry Holmes edition and there was the list of light heavyweight champions either defending or former who would challenge the reigning World Heavyweight Champions in the article about Holmes losing his IBF Heavyweight Title in a controversial decision to former World Light Heavyweight Champion Michael Spinks in their first fight.

I read the list of former or reigning World Light Heavyweight Champions, but for some reason they omitted Philadelphia Jack O'Brien the former World Light Heavyweight Champion who unsuccessfully challenged the World Heavyweight Champion three times. O'Brien drew and lost to Tommy Burns in both fights and fought a no-decision against Jack Johnson.

Tommy Loughran another former World Light Heavyweight Champion unsuccessfully challenged World Heavyweight Champion Primo Carnera, who beat Loughran by decision. Could anyone explain to me why the journalists from Ring Magazine failed to mention them if anyone read it?

[Riddick Bowie]

When I read the Ring Magazine: The Larry Holmes edition and there was the list of light heavyweight champions either defending or former who would challenge the reigning World Heavyweight Champions in the article about Holmes losing his IBF Heavyweight Title in a controversial decision to former World Light Heavyweight Champion Michael Spinks in their first fight.

I read the list of former or reigning World Light Heavyweight Champions, but for some reason they omitted Philadelphia Jack O'Brien the former World Light Heavyweight Champion who unsuccessfully challenged the World Heavyweight Champion three times. O'Brien drew and lost to Tommy Burns in both fights and fought a no-decision against Jack Johnson.

Tommy Loughran another former World Light Heavyweight Champion unsuccessfully challenged World Heavyweight Champion Primo Carnera, who beat Loughran by decision. Could anyone explain to me why the journalists from Ring Magazine failed to mention them if anyone read it?

The general decline in knowledge and standards in boxing journalism I expect.

[Caractacus]

what year did the "Larry Holmes Edition" come out ?

[Riddick Bowie]

Earlier this year.

[Ambling Alp II]

That is kind of embarrassing for the magazine; nobody is perfect but still.

[scorpio83]

That is kind of embarrassing for the magazine; nobody is perfect but still.

Yeah and they were a little off with two former light heavyweight champions in that issue this year.

[Caractacus]

I figured.
was wondering if it came out just after Holmes had lost the HW Championship.
Because no one would have been that ignorant back in the late 1980's,especially if they wrote for a magazine.

[Riddick Bowie]

The state of boxing journalism now is shocking, and the main reason why I can't read the magazines anymore (having been an avid reader of them as recently as the 90s when the standard of writing was much higher). I'm not paying to read the semi-literate blogging of bookless millennials.

The current Boxing News staff is particularly egregious. One of them I'm fairly certain employs Grammerly to write his articles. I wonder what the great Graham Houston makes of it all?

[Ambling Alp II]

It seems like you have a few things going on here.

-First, the lack of historical knowledge of the writer. (Common among current younger boxing fans).
-Laziness in not looking it up by the writer.
-Some blame should go to the editor or fact checker who should have caught it. Assuming it was even looked at by someone else.

Will be interesting to see if there is a correction in a future issue. You would hope by now that someone at the magazine would know this happened.

[margaret thatcher]

graham houston, now there's a man with historical knowledge who still loves and is very knowledgeable about the current scene, rather than just being a total moaner who hardly watches a fight anymore

[HomicideHenry]

When I read the Ring Magazine: The Larry Holmes edition and there was the list of light heavyweight champions either defending or former who would challenge the reigning World Heavyweight Champions in the article about Holmes losing his IBF Heavyweight Title in a controversial decision to former World Light Heavyweight Champion Michael Spinks in their first fight.

I read the list of former or reigning World Light Heavyweight Champions, but for some reason they omitted Philadelphia Jack O'Brien the former World Light Heavyweight Champion who unsuccessfully challenged the World Heavyweight Champion three times. O'Brien drew and lost to Tommy Burns in both fights and fought a no-decision against Jack Johnson.

Tommy Loughran another former World Light Heavyweight Champion unsuccessfully challenged World Heavyweight Champion Primo Carnera, who beat Loughran by decision. Could anyone explain to me why the journalists from Ring Magazine failed to mention them if anyone read it?

I think it's a fair bet to say that most of us posters on this website are far more knowledgeable than most of the people who actually work for Ring magazine.