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Received a nice letter from Claude with my copy of BN this morning.

I'm pleased it's going back to A4 as it's better in so many ways.

But I wish they'd leave this "doubling in size" thing alone.

Yes, doubling in size from 24 A3 pages to 48 A4 pages!

I'll go and take a look - good to see it back in it's old format, even the BN staff hated the A3 size they were forced to switch to.

MightyWarrior wrote:I'll go and take a look - good to see it back in it's old format, even the BN staff hated the A3 size they were forced to switch to.

Not out in new style till next week, MW.

I'm all for A4 size too. The A3 size always slips off your fornicating knees, when you are reading on the khazi! Most annoying it is too

boxingchat wrote:I'm all for A4 size too. The A3 size always slips off your fornicating knees, when you are reading on the khazi! Most annoying it is too

Finally the first logical thing you have said on this forum

boxingchat wrote:I'm all for A4 size too. The A3 size always slips off your fornicating knees, when you are reading on the khazi! Most annoying it is too

Yeah, I have to move the washing basket over to place it on, when im reading it on the pan.

Haven't seen a 3 fight agreement in there by any chance?

jamesmcdonnell wrote:Haven't seen a 3 fight agreement in there by any chance?

I will check when I get home.

If I do, I'd better get a copy over to Hertford.

...............or Sheffield.......................................

or Manchester.................................................

Ian 'Mr' McNeilly wrote:I'm pleased it's going back to A4 as it's better in so many ways.

Me to, I never liked the 'newspaper' style.

I'm looking forward to the 'new' Boxing News.

And finally having a good shit on a Friday morning too!!

KO Atrist wrote:Yeah, I have to move the washing basket over to place it on, when im reading it on the pan.

I laughed my balls off when i saw that, i do the same. Pulling the washing basket over and placing BN carefully on top Beautiful

I get the mrs to get down on all fours in front of me while I have a shit and read BN on her back.

I`m the biggest whinger about BN
So here goes again

Why so many photos in this weeks

24pages and if you took into account the amount of pics and adverts them we only had about 14....check out the pages on Hatton...all photo, and a little write-up...its a trade paper so whats with all that space on silly what-ifs.

A4 is a good thing also because they can`t get away with putting so little in.


If I could interview one British boxer it would be Peter Buckley without a doubt.
The questions you could ask would be better than any recycled Ali piece, just print his record and circle the names and fill in the rest with educated questions.

But no, its easier to fill the paper with pics and anything that mentions Ali....pure lazy :x

Rant over

Yeah i'm not a huge Ali fan as it is but i find the constant Ali pieces tiresome, as for Buckley he was recently interviewed in Boxing Monthly...it was a good piece.

steve689 wrote:

KO Atrist wrote:Yeah, I have to move the washing basket over to place it on, when im reading it on the pan.

I laughed my balls off when i saw that, i do the same. Pulling the washing basket over and placing BN carefully on top Beautiful

I do that aswell, does anyone know if you can subscribe to Boxing News and get it delivered through the post, no newsagents sell it where I live.

dwo 27 wrote:

steve689 wrote:

KO Atrist wrote:Yeah, I have to move the washing basket over to place it on, when im reading it on the pan.

I laughed my balls off when i saw that, i do the same. Pulling the washing basket over and placing BN carefully on top Beautiful

I do that aswell, does anyone know if you can subscribe to Boxing News and get it delivered through the post, no newsagents sell it where I live.

http://www.boxingnewsonline.net/subscribe.asp

Thanks Ulysses.

Be interesting to see and read. I finally gave up buying it after the last Xmas issue. Pish poor subscription service and too many adverts. And those adverts were doubled in the Xmas 'Bumper Double' Issue, as was the price.

steve689 wrote:Yeah i'm not a huge Ali fan as it is but i find the constant Ali pieces tiresome, as for Buckley he was recently interviewed in Boxing Monthly...it was a good piece.

Who did the interview?
Is there anyway I could read it, somehow?

Like `neil r` I too gave up buying it for some months after Xmas, pissed me off so much the blatant rip-off charging double price to accomadate the xtra adverts and photo`s...and the tiresome Ali pages re-cycled again.

But it is THE boxing paper, and even though I know the results within hrs I still like to read thrie view of it, and every so often they do put in a piece that makes you glad you did buy it.

Incidently I was looking through some of my old RING magazines recently and its clear why this magazine was rated so highly, articles that don`t just rely on the Ali or Marciano genre.
They did articles on the little known but important figures of yester-year boxing.

It might be on the website Tony, or someone on Ebay may be selling a copy, other than that i don't know mate. It was a good article though i think you would enjoy it.

Mick Gill did the Buckley interview in BM. Very good read:

http://www.boxing-monthly.co.uk/content/0508/two.htm

Top man is Peter Buckley

I went up to Birmingham to see him training with some young kids on the addicted to sport programme run by Midlands Area secretary Les Potts

http://www.britishboxing.net/?page=news&id=849 and http://www.britishboxing.net/?page=news&id=852

Kev

Many of us will be sprinting towards the newsagents tomorrow morning to get a glimpse of this new look boxing news. Not long left now fellas. Please post your opinions.

I really like it, it's compact and set out pretty well inside, i much prefer it to the older format...anyone else picked up the new copy?

I bought it today out of curiosity, not bad at all its a lot better than it was. I still don't see myself getting it weekly though.