It's still like that.. In the Loma v Lopez issue a 6-page Eddie Hearn interview featured 3 full page photos.
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No local shops stocking it around mine. But I guess I'll stop looking if it's the same as under Claude Abrams.
There are 101 online sources to see fight photos, and Google will give you a good reading list on any past or present boxer.
The BN I enjoyed provided something to read not just look at.
I guess with mobile phones putting Google at our fingertips to get all info we need, then papers such as BN are a remnant of a gone age.
It's still like that.. In the Loma v Lopez issue a 6-page Eddie Hearn interview featured 3 full page photos.
No local shops stocking it around mine. But I guess I'll stop looking if it's the same as under Claude Abrams.
There are 101 online sources to see fight photos, and Google will give you a good reading list on any past or present boxer.
The BN I enjoyed provided something to read not just look at.
I guess with mobile phones putting Google at our fingertips to get all info we need, then papers such as BN are a remnant of a gone age.
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It’s better than it was under Abrams. There are occasionally too many photos (which don’t do anything for me either really) but it’s a strong boxing magazine now so don’t judge it based on one issue.
I’d recommend subscribing to it for 3 months (it’s that’s even possible) - would cost about £30 but at least then you’d know if it’s worthwhile for you.
It's still like that.. In the Loma v Lopez issue a 6-page Eddie Hearn interview featured 3 full page photos.
No local shops stocking it around mine. But I guess I'll stop looking if it's the same as under Claude Abrams.
There are 101 online sources to see fight photos, and Google will give you a good reading list on any past or present boxer.
The BN I enjoyed provided something to read not just look at.
I guess with mobile phones putting Google at our fingertips to get all info we need, then papers such as BN are a remnant of a gone age.
It’s better than it was under Abrams. There are occasionally too many photos (which don’t do anything for me either really) but it’s a strong boxing magazine now so don’t judge it based on one issue.
I’d recommend subscribing to it for 3 months (it’s that’s even possible) - would cost about £30 but at least then you’d know if it’s worthwhile for you.
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They have a month by month, cancel any time, option. Signing up today.
It's still like that.. In the Loma v Lopez issue a 6-page Eddie Hearn interview featured 3 full page photos.
No local shops stocking it around mine. But I guess I'll stop looking if it's the same as under Claude Abrams.
There are 101 online sources to see fight photos, and Google will give you a good reading list on any past or present boxer.
The BN I enjoyed provided something to read not just look at.
I guess with mobile phones putting Google at our fingertips to get all info we need, then papers such as BN are a remnant of a gone age.
It’s better than it was under Abrams. There are occasionally too many photos (which don’t do anything for me either really) but it’s a strong boxing magazine now so don’t judge it based on one issue.
I’d recommend subscribing to it for 3 months (it’s that’s even possible) - would cost about £30 but at least then you’d know if it’s worthwhile for you.
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I think I pay something like £19.99 for a rolling three month subscription. Well worth it
What was wrong with it under Abrams? I thought it was superb in terms of content. He could really read a fight psychologically, getting into why things were happening in fights. I used to love reading it then, he understood and conveyed the motivations, the pitfalls and the reasons boxers make the choices that they do and how they respond to actions in fights. It was an extremely intelligent way of looking at, real sweet science stuff.
The only thing was when it switched to that A3 newspaper style, it was absolutely awful paper quality but he mentioned that on his Boxing Life Stories interview with Dixon and it wasn't down to him.
Pretty good issue this week by the looks of it, although the cover photo makes Puvlev and AJ look like they’re in a long term relationship ( and I suppose they are ). Good lead by Matt pulling up Hearn on his sky spokesman persona, when convenient, and when it’s not, it’s not his but sky’s fault over the 25 quid pricing of PPVs.
Although I don’t like this new bullet point previews they’re doing: who has the best chin… Who has the best record… blah blah...If you’ve got good writers, use em and write a proper preview the way we used to get from the great Graham Houston.
Although not the over used and overly verbose Elliot Worsell please, a man who won’t use one word when he can use 25 instead ( does he get paid by the word ? ) He spends a whole page on the AJ Pulev history using various metaphors on the heavyweight division and outside events, before coming to the conclusion, in a sense, one might say, rightly or wrongly, history will conclude, with a collective uncertainty, and getting to the bleedin’ point, that there has been a global pandemic. Apparently.
veriton wrote: ↑30 Oct 2020, 13:42
What was wrong with it under Abrams? I thought it was superb in terms of content. He could really read a fight psychologically, getting into why things were happening in fights. I used to love reading it then, he understood and conveyed the motivations, the pitfalls and the reasons boxers make the choices that they do and how they respond to actions in fights. It was an extremely intelligent way of looking at, real sweet science stuff.
The only thing was when it switched to that A3 newspaper style, it was absolutely awful paper quality but he mentioned that on his Boxing Life Stories interview with Dixon and it wasn't down to him.
It wasnt about Abrams articles; which as you say were of good quality .. it was the direction he took BN in. I realise not all the changes will have been down to him - but he was at the helm at that time. Abrams often tried to justify the regular price increases because of the increased pages or better quality paper; neither were required because the extra pages were simply filled with adverts or photos and written content actually got less, and the poorer quality paper was ok to read the boxing news anyways.
AS written earlier; it went from a Boxing News paper - into a magazine called Boxing News.
MightyWarrior wrote: ↑28 Oct 2020, 04:46
The 4 page feature on Frankie Duarte last week was brilliant. The type of well written piece that box monthly used to run.
The incredible story of the 1970’s LA golden boy destined for stardom, whose hard partying life style saw him become an alcoholic junkie homeless on the streets for many years, before launching an impossible comeback in the 80’s towards a world title shot and possible redemption.
It’s a crazy story.
Frankie posts on the web from time to time. The man is class. He went off the rails when his career stalled in the late 1970s but he hurt nobody but himself and launched his unlikely comeback with the Goossens in the mid-1980s and went all the way to a shot at the WBA bantamweight title against the vastly underrated Bernardo Pinango in California in 1987. Most American fans claim that Duarte was robbed in the fight (he wasn't). I asked Frankie and he poured out a refreshingly honest reply, admitting that Pinango was outstanding and confirming that Pinango's secret was his workrate. The champion worked hard for three minutes of every round so an opponent had to work even harder to win those rounds and that was very difficult. Duarte made it mighty close in a thrilling contest but Pinango copped a unanimous 15-round decision, despite losing a few rounds for low blows.
Duarte came back to score one of his greatest wins when he stopped Alberto Davila on cuts in a fabulous contest in Los Angeles. At last the man found some luck on the night because Davila was cut from a clash of heads but the referee missed it and Duarte got the TKO to avenge a previous defeat to Davila - all of 10 year earlier. Duarte later left the Goossens who didn't know he existed once Michael Nunn broke through and he secured another crack at a world title against the inhumanly tough Daniel Zaragoza at super-bantamweight but it was too much too late, after which Frankie called it a day. Duarte didn't look like a banger but his right hand was a potent weapon. His record is littered with stoppages.
MightyWarrior wrote: ↑28 Oct 2020, 04:46
The 4 page feature on Frankie Duarte last week was brilliant. The type of well written piece that box monthly used to run.
The incredible story of the 1970’s LA golden boy destined for stardom, whose hard partying life style saw him become an alcoholic junkie homeless on the streets for many years, before launching an impossible comeback in the 80’s towards a world title shot and possible redemption.
It’s a crazy story.
Frankie posts on the web from time to time. The man is class. He went off the rails when his career stalled in the late 1970s but he hurt nobody but himself and launched his unlikely comeback with the Goossens in the mid-1980s and went all the way to a shot at the WBA bantamweight title against the vastly underrated Bernardo Pinango in California in 1987. Most American fans claim that Duarte was robbed in the fight (he wasn't). I asked Frankie and he poured out a refreshingly honest reply, admitting that Pinango was outstanding and confirming that Pinango's secret was his workrate. The champion worked hard for three minutes of every round so an opponent had to work even harder to win those rounds and that was very difficult. Duarte made it mighty close in a thrilling contest but Pinango copped a unanimous 15-round decision, despite losing a few rounds for low blows.
Duarte came back to score one of his greatest wins when he stopped Alberto Davila on cuts in a fabulous contest in Los Angeles. At last the man found some luck on the night because Davila was cut from a clash of heads but the referee missed it and Duarte got the TKO to avenge a previous defeat to Davila - all of 10 year earlier. Duarte later left the Goossens who didn't know he existed once Michael Nunn broke through and he secured another crack at a world title against the inhumanly tough Daniel Zaragoza at super-bantamweight but it was too much too late, after which Frankie called it a day. Duarte didn't look like a banger but his right hand was a potent weapon. His record is littered with stoppages.
MightyWarrior wrote: ↑28 Oct 2020, 04:46
The 4 page feature on Frankie Duarte last week was brilliant. The type of well written piece that box monthly used to run.
The incredible story of the 1970’s LA golden boy destined for stardom, whose hard partying life style saw him become an alcoholic junkie homeless on the streets for many years, before launching an impossible comeback in the 80’s towards a world title shot and possible redemption.
It’s a crazy story.
Frankie posts on the web from time to time. The man is class. He went off the rails when his career stalled in the late 1970s but he hurt nobody but himself and launched his unlikely comeback with the Goossens in the mid-1980s and went all the way to a shot at the WBA bantamweight title against the vastly underrated Bernardo Pinango in California in 1987. Most American fans claim that Duarte was robbed in the fight (he wasn't). I asked Frankie and he poured out a refreshingly honest reply, admitting that Pinango was outstanding and confirming that Pinango's secret was his workrate. The champion worked hard for three minutes of every round so an opponent had to work even harder to win those rounds and that was very difficult. Duarte made it mighty close in a thrilling contest but Pinango copped a unanimous 15-round decision, despite losing a few rounds for low blows.
Duarte came back to score one of his greatest wins when he stopped Alberto Davila on cuts in a fabulous contest in Los Angeles. At last the man found some luck on the night because Davila was cut from a clash of heads but the referee missed it and Duarte got the TKO to avenge a previous defeat to Davila - all of 10 year earlier. Duarte later left the Goossens who didn't know he existed once Michael Nunn broke through and he secured another crack at a world title against the inhumanly tough Daniel Zaragoza at super-bantamweight but it was too much too late, after which Frankie called it a day. Duarte didn't look like a banger but his right hand was a potent weapon. His record is littered with stoppages.
Is he doing ok now? Made a few quid for security?
Yeah, I think so. He attends the California boxing dos and always looks the part. The Great Western Forum in Los Angeles launched an intriguing competition in the 1980s, sponsored by Stroh's Beer, in which fighters had the chance to win $50,000 ($100,000 for the bigger participants). It made for plenty of great action. Duarte won the bantamweight competition with wins over Mike Moreno, George Garcia and Jesus Salud in the final, who was pulled out with a badly swollen eye in a fight Duarte was dominating. Salud later won the world super-bantamweight title.
Other winners included Paul Banke, Hector Lopez, Refugio Rojas, Manning Galloway, Lindell Holmes, J.B. Williamson, Prince Mama Mohammed and heavyweight Larry Alexander.
Jimmy2020 wrote: ↑13 Dec 2020, 09:48
bennie, for decades your knowledge has blown me away. I obviously know your real name but have never asked, why 'bennie'?
I was Bennie Briscoe but I sadly passed away in 2010.
Jimmy2020 wrote: ↑13 Dec 2020, 09:48
bennie, for decades your knowledge has blown me away. I obviously know your real name but have never asked, why 'bennie'?
I was Bennie Briscoe but I sadly passed away in 2010.
I dunno why but I thought it was your dog or something
Jimmy2020 wrote: ↑13 Dec 2020, 09:48
bennie, for decades your knowledge has blown me away. I obviously know your real name but have never asked, why 'bennie'?
I was Bennie Briscoe but I sadly passed away in 2010.
Bennie is the Sugar Ray Robinson of boxing knowledge!
Bit p**sed off with Boxing News at the minute. I subscribe and for the last 3 weeks they have been a week behind with my mag. The Joshua v Pulev preview edition came through my door last night.
It’s either COVID-related. Or Kirkland Laing has taken over as my postie.
TheGoods wrote: ↑17 Dec 2020, 14:36
Bennie is the Sugar Ray Robinson of boxing knowledge!
Bit p**sed off with Boxing News at the minute. I subscribe and for the last 3 weeks they have been a week behind with my mag. The Joshua v Pulev preview edition came through my door last night.
It’s either COVID-related. Or Kirkland Laing has taken over as my postie.
Mine lagged too, got it on Monday. It is Christmas time at the post office though. Good read, nonetheless! At £2,50 a pop it's great value. Support boxing magazines before they disappear!
Jimmy2020 wrote: ↑13 Dec 2020, 09:48
bennie, for decades your knowledge has blown me away. I obviously know your real name but have never asked, why 'bennie'?
I always thought Bennies username had something to do with the cartoon “Top Cat”
Lived in London 1988 - 1991 and every Friday morning I'd get to the nearest newsagent or the tube station and grab a copy of BN. A pleasant boxing related memory
I had a look on the website last night and there was an option to subscribe to the online only version of BN for £4.99 a month, is that new? I don’t remember seeing it before, that’s a bloody bargain.
It will be almost certainly down to the strain the Post Office is under around Christmas. Hence why someone in rural mid-Wales has got it (far less people and an easier gig for the PO) and lads in the smoke haven't.
