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Just a question guys.

Jus purchased Boxing Yearbooks 1985 and 1992 from a second hand bookshop this morning. Having a quick browse through them, I noticed in the latter that there was an advert for a boxing magazine titled "Boxing Outlook."

Can anyone shed any light on details of this mag?

Anyone got any details?

I think it was the forerunner of Boxing Monthly, I have them in the attic, so cannot be sure, but it seems to be that as far as I can remember, I think Ian Probert was the editor then,

Its in the 92 yearbook Eric, Boxing Monthly was going before that wasnt it?

What happened to Ian Probert? Rope Burns was a cracking book I thought.

Here you go, I do remember this magazine now i've seen the cover. Think i may have the issues at home somewhere. It didn't run for long.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BOXING-OUTLOOK-MA ... 7001r28757

I've got a few old copies. It was a magazine that came out about the time of Holyfield's title defense against Foreman. But it never really took off and soon ceased to exist.

As I remember it was very similar in look and feel to Boxing Monthly. there was nonly room in the market for one publication and BM survived.

I have all the issues of Boxing Outlook in my boxing magazine collection.

They did a total of 15 issues, starting April 1991 and ending June 1992.
Been a long time since I read or looked through any of them, but I seem to recall that the magazine was a lot like Boxing Monthly, but maybe with more coverage on the UK scene.

Here is a run down of the main stories they had each month.
If you need anything more I can look it up.

1991 April: Holyfield-Foreman Preview, Billy Hardy, Cornelius Carr, Madison Square Garden, Loreto Garza, Tony Galento, JC Chavez, Paddy Byrne

1991 May: Tyson-Ruddock 1, Gary De Roux, Billy Schwer, Emile Griffith, David Pearce, Oba Carr, Naseem Hamed

1991 June: Holyfield-Foreman, Floyd Patterson, John Davison, Mike McCallum, Gary McCrory, Young Griffo, Michael Moorer, Jack "Kid" Berg Death

1991 July: Sonny Liston, Robbie Regan, Nigel Benn, Colin McMillan, Ray Close, James Toney, Al "Bummy" Davis, Ray Mercer, Victor Cordoba, Peter Culshaw

1991 August: Tyson-Ruddock 2, Eubank-Watson 1, Fenech-Nelson 1, Herbie Hide, Morrison-Mercer Preview, Brian Mitchell, Robert McCracken, Charley White, Mark Breland, Mickey Duff, Pat Gallagher

1991 September: Chris Eubank, Duke McKenzie, Mike Tyson, Henry Wharton, Hector Camacho, Bob Fitzsimmons, Dan Donnelly, Eddie Thomas, Peter Kane & Joe Lucy, Shinzi Sodhi

1991 October: Lewis-McCrory Preview, Derek Angol, Riddick Bowe, Jack Dempsey, Best Non-Champions

1991 November: Holyfield-Tyson Preview, Eubank-Watson 2, Andy Holligan, Benny Lynch, Joe Calzaghe, Terry Norris

1991 December: Mercer-Morrison, Derek Williams, Terrence Ali, Joe Frazier, David Staire, Brendan Ingle

1992 January: Frank Bruno, Holyfield-Cooper, Billy Miske, Pat Thomas, Dave McAuley, Lamar Clark

1992 February: Muhammad Ali, Herol Graham, Al Cole, John McCluskey, Joe Louis

1992 March : Nigel Benn, Johnny Nelson, James Cook, Battling Siki, Iran Barkley, Gypsy Joe Harris, Jersey Joe Walcott, Floyd Patterson, Henry Cooper

1992 April: Julian Jackson, Naseem Hamed, Henry Wharton, Roy Jones Jr., Don Cockell

1992 May: Hearns-Barkley 2, Larry Holmes, Joe Kelly, Graham Moughton, Randall "Tex" Cobb, Julian Jackson, Kid McCoy, Boxers at The Theatre, Jimmy Wilde

1992 June: Larry Holmes, Evander Holyfield, Lennox Lewis, Brian Hill, Richie Woodhall, Mind Games in Boxing, Roy Harris, Junior Jones

Uppercut magazine was another one

who cares??

The quiet man 2004 wrote:Its in the 92 yearbook Eric, Boxing Monthly was going before that wasnt it?

What happened to Ian Probert? Rope Burns was a cracking book I thought.

I'm still alive and glad that you liked the book. Thanks for the kind words.

Ian

And actually I wasn't the editor of that magazine. It was an offshoot of Boxing Weekly, George Zeleney was the editor. It had exactly the same look and feel as Boxing Weekly and as such was just as doomed to ultimate failure.

It's been 20 years since Boxing Weekly but the memory is still fresh. I could tell some tales about those days…

Boxing Outlook launched just as I was getting into boxing. I got the first issue and then every issue from then until its demise. In truth it did very little differently to BM (design was a different but content very similar) but back then as a newly boxing-mad teen, I bought anything I could afford about the sport. Still have them all in my mum's attic.

oliverfennell wrote:Boxing Outlook launched just as I was getting into boxing. I got the first issue and then every issue from then until its demise. In truth it did very little differently to BM (design was a different but content very similar) but back then as a newly boxing-mad teen, I bought anything I could afford about the sport. Still have them all in my mum's attic.

same as me

Nice to see you on here Ian,.

Punchy Joe wrote:Uppercut magazine was another one

Didn't that only run for one issue?

ERIC GUY wrote:Nice to see you on here Ian,.

Thanks Eric, nice to know that you're still alive and kicking, too.

Ian