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hitman_hatton1 wrote:who's been buying it the longest on here then?

10 yrs for me. :>

23 years for me, Witherspoon - Bruno preview, haven't looked back!

Used to be around the house occasionally when I was a a kid, but religiously since the last 70s

22 years,started reading it when delivering it as part of my paper round to a bloke at the top of the street.he always got his late as well!

19 years - I remember the Mike Tyson v Alex Stewart fight report vividly as one of the earliest issues I bought: I thought that Iron Mike was on his way back to his best.

Prior to that I read The Ring, KO and other american mags

around 20 years, and i have saved every issue in mint condition (except one eh ollie )

my trips back to the uk consist of my BNs, which i store at my mum's house, and then whatever room is left for clothes etc.

I have been getting it every friday for about 13-14 years now. Still really look forward to it.

It about 10-12 years for me, buying BN every week! I much prefer the A4 size format & I hope it stays at that!

I've got mags at my Dad's loft in boxes! Sometimes I have thought about selling some but I haven't as of yet! I always get some old issues out & start reading. You just never know when you are going to think "Oh, I'll have a read of some old issues!"

100 years is some milestone & it shoudl be noted!

Let's hope BN remains strong & continues to be the best Boxing publication out there!

NorthEastBoxingFan wrote:

hitman_hatton1 wrote:who's been buying it the longest on here then?

10 yrs for me. :>

do you save 'em mate.....are they in random piles around the house.....in shoe boxes...lovingly packed away...?......do you ever dig out an old sweat top and uncover Audley Harrison front covers proclaiming his imminent World Heavyweight domination......(2003, 2004, 2005 etc....I don't mean lastweek lol)......or Scott Harrison in victorious pose (ah, yester year)......I used to love to read mine in the bath after a workout, Friday ritual....hence a load of mine have gotten a been wet and dried out look to them.

Will I ever read most of them again, nope probably....can't chuck em out though...I dread to think what it will be like if I'm still buying it in 10 or 20 years.

I probably started buying around 6 to 7 years ago when I was first made aware of the publication, when it was in the bigger format.

Also......what order do you read it in........me..........60 second interview, Letters page.......Whispers........Fight Preview......I tendto spend less time on the write ups as I've usually watched it already.

i did used to collect em.

ended up chucking em.

kept some of em though.

mostly the hatton fight covers.

Rocky Balboa wrote:It about 10-12 years for me, buying BN every week! I much prefer the A4 size format & I hope it stays at that!

I've got mags at my Dad's loft in boxes! Sometimes I have thought about selling some but I haven't as of yet! I always get some old issues out & start reading. You just never know when you are going to think "Oh, I'll have a read of some old issues!"

100 years is some milestone & it shoudl be noted!

Let's hope BN remains strong & continues to be the best Boxing publication out there!

trainspotters of the world unite and takeover!!!!

I suppose this is one day where misty-eyed reflection is just about permissible. When I got my copy this morning, it took me back to the spring of 1978 when I went down to Boxing News at the old Langham Street office for an interview for the job of assistant editor. It was lunch-time, so Harry Mullan and I went to Monte Bello's restaurant, to discuss the state of the world and the possible job, except we didn't quite get to the job bit, then across to the 'cap and stick' pub, somehow found our way to the bookies on the corner and then sat in The George for a few moments' quiet reflection, by which time it was getting dark. I thought I better clarify the situation and said: "Harry, about the interview..." "Oh, yes," he said, then grinned and said: "Who's Marvin Hagler? Your round, is it?" With that great day, my life changed... hard-drinking times certainly, but fiercely independent, borne out of a belief that we, and Boxing News, were so poor nobody would bother to sue us. Times have changed. This could get, or already is, boring. Time to stop.

bobmee wrote:I suppose this is one day where misty-eyed reflection is just about permissible. When I got my copy this morning, it took me back to the spring of 1978 when I went down to Boxing News at the old Langham Street office for an interview for the job of assistant editor. It was lunch-time, so Harry Mullan and I went to Monte Bello's restaurant, to discuss the state of the world and the possible job, except we didn't quite get to the job bit, then across to the 'cap and stick' pub, somehow found our way to the bookies on the corner and then sat in The George for a few moments' quiet reflection, by which time it was getting dark. I thought I better clarify the situation and said: "Harry, about the interview..." "Oh, yes," he said, then grinned and said: "Who's Marvin Hagler? Your round, is it?" With that great day, my life changed... hard-drinking times certainly, but fiercely independent, borne out of a belief that we, and Boxing News, were so poor nobody would bother to sue us. Times have changed. This could get, or already is, boring. Time to stop.

I'll happily listen all day long

Mine arrived today!

Coco wrote:

bobmee wrote:I suppose this is one day where misty-eyed reflection is just about permissible. When I got my copy this morning, it took me back to the spring of 1978 when I went down to Boxing News at the old Langham Street office for an interview for the job of assistant editor. It was lunch-time, so Harry Mullan and I went to Monte Bello's restaurant, to discuss the state of the world and the possible job, except we didn't quite get to the job bit, then across to the 'cap and stick' pub, somehow found our way to the bookies on the corner and then sat in The George for a few moments' quiet reflection, by which time it was getting dark. I thought I better clarify the situation and said: "Harry, about the interview..." "Oh, yes," he said, then grinned and said: "Who's Marvin Hagler? Your round, is it?" With that great day, my life changed... hard-drinking times certainly, but fiercely independent, borne out of a belief that we, and Boxing News, were so poor nobody would bother to sue us. Times have changed. This could get, or already is, boring. Time to stop.

I'll happily listen all day long

me too. I'd love to hear more of these stories Bob

well done boxing news. great magazine, in an era when coverage of the sport is piss poor, it's crucial to the game that it's covered by a weekly mag.

i hope it last another 100 years.

bobmee wrote:I suppose this is one day where misty-eyed reflection is just about permissible. When I got my copy this morning, it took me back to the spring of 1978 when I went down to Boxing News at the old Langham Street office for an interview for the job of assistant editor. It was lunch-time, so Harry Mullan and I went to Monte Bello's restaurant, to discuss the state of the world and the possible job, except we didn't quite get to the job bit, then across to the 'cap and stick' pub, somehow found our way to the bookies on the corner and then sat in The George for a few moments' quiet reflection, by which time it was getting dark. I thought I better clarify the situation and said: "Harry, about the interview..." "Oh, yes," he said, then grinned and said: "Who's Marvin Hagler? Your round, is it?" With that great day, my life changed... hard-drinking times certainly, but fiercely independent, borne out of a belief that we, and Boxing News, were so poor nobody would bother to sue us. Times have changed. This could get, or already is, boring. Time to stop.

Classic. I mean, now we get homo-erotic blogs about the staff working out with each other! What's wrong with going on the p*ss and in the bookies, for God's sake!

Got mine today its a very good one the usual stuff and more it's a great achievement 100 years

Got mine, been getting it since 1991 and have kept nearly all of them. Thought i'd lost two years worth when I hastily departed my home with my last partner under difficult circumstances and left them there but the little angel didn't burn or throw them out and I got them back about two weeks ago. She wouldn't let me have the cat though. Oh well.

Got my first copy in 1993 and haven't looked back. I actually can't handle my Fridays without it!