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Final round wrote:Anderson was wearing a Hatton promptions gown on the main pic and then the article then proceed to state he wasn't with them which was rather contradictory also he came across as a grumpy git but good article though.

The inquest feature worked well again, it had the perfect subject in Pac-Marquez 3.
The last one I enjoyed that much was Haye-Wlad.

The P.E.D's article was very informative, I never realised RJJ VS Richard Hall they were both on Steroids and Toney vs Batchelder they were both on Steroids. With that sort of pattern the sport must be rife with cheats like them.

Andre 'The Dirty Rat' Dirrell article was telling "I.m looking forward to fighting Ward down the line in my career, that's the moneymaker!" between the lines (I was scared of losing this massive fight so feigned serious signs of early pugilistic dementia to get out of it. but i'm ok now!)

King Geedorah wrote:

Final round wrote:Anderson was wearing a Hatton promptions gown on the main pic and then the article then proceed to state he wasn't with them which was rather contradictory also he came across as a grumpy git but good article though.

The inquest feature worked well again, it had the perfect subject in Pac-Marquez 3.
The last one I enjoyed that much was Haye-Wlad.

The P.E.D's article was very informative, I never realised RJJ VS Richard Hall they were both on Steroids and Toney vs Batchelder they were both on Steroids. With that sort of pattern the sport must be rife with cheats like them.

Andre 'The Dirty Rat' Dirrell article was telling "I.m looking forward to fighting Ward down the line in my career, that's the moneymaker!" between the lines (I was scared of losing this massive fight so feigned serious signs of early pugilistic dementia to get out of it. but i'm ok now!)

Kenny did mention that he wasn’t too happy with the logo on his gown but it was his most fetching one so he kept it on & said to hell with it. Cheers, I found him to have a dry wit and hoped it came across in his ‘I moved street’ line. I’d recommend saying “Hello” to Kenny is you see him at a show, he’s very approachable but don’t make the mistake I made and call him Ken, he doesn’t like that and isn’t afraid to say so

Captain Hook wrote: Agreed on PEDs.....shame looking back at careers of the likes of RJJ and Shane with a black cloud over them - and if I recall correctly Hall was 10x over?

Final round wrote:The 2012 BM calendar turned out well, all good pictures

Glyn Leach wrote:

Final round wrote:The 2012 BM calendar turned out well, all good pictures

I thought so in the end, ta for that. Nice to have enough British fighters and fights to devote a calendar to these days - with a whole bunch who could justifiably have been in there left out.

Final round wrote:

Glyn Leach wrote:

Final round wrote:The 2012 BM calendar turned out well, all good pictures

I thought so in the end, ta for that. Nice to have enough British fighters and fights to devote a calendar to these days - with a whole bunch who could justifiably have been in there left out.

Plenty to choose from is a good sign. 8)
The Khan -Peterson fight would be a good inquest feature, or we may have another controversial one in Froch-Ward!

Glyn Leach wrote:

Final round wrote:

Glyn Leach wrote: I thought so in the end, ta for that. Nice to have enough British fighters and fights to devote a calendar to these days - with a whole bunch who could justifiably have been in there left out.

Plenty to choose from is a good sign. 8)
The Khan -Peterson fight would be a good inquest feature, or we may have another controversial one in Froch-Ward!

Maybe the two together? Long way ahead though, see what happens. If we were out next week it'd be a must but I worry when things are that 'old', Ring phobia pmsl

Datsue wrote:Sorry to resurrect an old thread but got my BM this morning; when I were a lad I loved the two-page world results round-up with the pithy, one-sentence reviews that you did back in the early '90s.

To see it reinstated in a more in-depth, wide-ranging format is, in my opinion, fifty times better & more useful & entertaining than the inquest feature (ducks, hides behind sofa). I love mad tiny Asian/Mexican boxing, but simply cannot keep up with who's really good & who's worth following unless I had some kind of cyber-implant fixed to my spine, constantly monitoring badly-written copy from fifty different amateur websites, running twenty-four/seven.

To have the important world-level results, a brief recap of what went down & also interesting fights I might like to download featuring contenders, up & comers, prospects, popular fighters & oddities presented in BM like that means I am a Very Happy Boy Indeed.

As I said, the Interweb provides access to an overwhelming load of info, & it's nice to have a discerning editorial that selects the results that really matter/that they feel are worth following, so I can, if I wish, find the fights at my leisure to watch.

I've got a feeling I might be in the minority with this, but I really really fvcking love this feature, Glyn. Thanks mate.




PS: If you promise to keep it up, I'll subscribe for five years, in one go. Honest. It means that much to me, & improves the value-for-money of the magazine ten-fold.

Matt W wrote:I understand why you didn't run with feature reports on Khan & Froch but personally I missed them; I might be in a minority but I always enjoy BM's take on such fights regardless of whether it's 3 weeks to a month later. The blow was slightly lessened by my BM towel though :)

loaded_gloves wrote:Glyn, I've always wanted to know - why did you lose the Reader's Letters section, around 1999/2000? In this era of everyone in the world being able to communicate with each other it seems odd we can't with BM. Wouldn't a reader's emails section work?

Anyway, please don't forget Jeff Merritt and Roy Tiger Williams in 2012!! The hour glass of Merritt's life must be very near the end!

dbf wrote:Glyn, I love the magazine, and this edition was a great start to 2012.

But I really feel that you need to update the look - its going to struggle to attract any younger fans when its up against the aesthetically more pleasing BN or Fighters Only etc. Appreciate design isn't cheap and you have a hardcore following that probably love it the way it is but for me its getting dated.
Not as bad looking as the Ring though.

dbf wrote:Glyn, I love the magazine, and this edition was a great start to 2012.

But I really feel that you need to update the look - its going to struggle to attract any younger fans when its up against the aesthetically more pleasing BN or Fighters Only etc. Appreciate design isn't cheap and you have a hardcore following that probably love it the way it is but for me its getting dated.

Not as bad looking as the Ring though.

Glyn Leach wrote:Content is what counts for me. Eff the rest, basically.

King Geedorah wrote:

Jeff Thomas wrote:Alright Danny, while were on the topic (kind of) who is your target audience for fighting fit? How are sales going? Had an interesting conversation about it today with a couple of young lads i'm training, they felt that it was very difficult to follow and was lacking in relativity to them, and their goals. Who do you want to buy the mag? I think its a belter by the way and rarely miss a copy.

Same for BN and BM... great, great mags that make every shit I have that much more satisfying.

And Jeff does a whole lot of shitting. Believe you me.

Jeff Thomas wrote:Alright Danny, while were on the topic (kind of) who is your target audience for fighting fit? How are sales going? Had an interesting conversation about it today with a couple of young lads i'm training, they felt that it was very difficult to follow and was lacking in relativity to them, and their goals. Who do you want to buy the mag? I think its a belter by the way and rarely miss a copy.

Same for BN and BM... great, great mags that make every shit I have that much more satisfying.

Glyn Leach wrote:

dbf wrote:Glyn, I love the magazine, and this edition was a great start to 2012.

But I really feel that you need to update the look - its going to struggle to attract any younger fans when its up against the aesthetically more pleasing BN or Fighters Only etc. Appreciate design isn't cheap and you have a hardcore following that probably love it the way it is but for me its getting dated.
Not as bad looking as the Ring though.

While I like BN I wouldn't want to produce a mag of that genre. But if anyone wants a BN type mag, there it is for them, a bloody good one. Fighting Fit always looks nice, the step by step type features lend themselves to the look. But in all honesty BM is about writing more than anything, that's all I care about these days. If people don't want that, they don't have to buy us. And we certainly aren't outsold by BN or FF.
In my opinion there is no young audience out there waiting to be converted by a boxing magazine, even if such a concept were possible, which it isn't. TV exposure creates a fan base, magazines feed on that. And as you know boxing's TV exposure has become more and more marginalised over the years. The fan base now is 99% the same as five or ten years ago, I'm certain of that. But even if I'm way wrong I'm not pandering to any audience and I'm certainly not going to go chasing mythical ones. And I'm bloody minded enough to stick to my guns. Content is what counts for me. Eff the rest, basically.

dondada wrote:

Glyn Leach wrote:Content is what counts for me. Eff the rest, basically.

Indeed, I've talked to Glyn about this before and I believe this seems to be the only USP left - good writing. Oh, and having an opinion.

Private Eye isn't doing too badly and their design hasn't changed significantly in decades.

I hate all this whizz-bang Smash Hits multi-platform integrated media bollocks.