Ring record book 1974.

[Rocky Balboa]

My Dad's mate knows I'm very into Boxing, so he bought me the book and gave it to me as a gift. Nice gesture from him!

Anyway, there's tons of info in the book. I would love to purchase other Ring record book.

By the way, it is an original book, binded etc.

There's a brilliant article, giving details of all of Joe Louis' title fights, his purses, weights, gate receipts etc.

I'm well chuffed with the book & I hope to buy some more in the future. If anyone has any, and wants to sell, let me know!

[barry]

The 1977 (A few ealier 70s volumes may be the same) volume has a lot of false bouts in it as John Ort tried to help validate several fighters who would be competiting in the proposed United States Tournament that was to be shown on ABC by adding phantom bouts to the career records of several fighters listed in the book, but it was exposed and the scandel nearly put an end to Ring magazine.

The Ring Record Books that were published in the 70s are my least favorite of all the volumes, but there is a lot of information in the books. You have to be careful about some things in the pages as they are absolutely loaded with inaccuracies in the records.

The 1986-1987 Volume, which happened to be the last year the book was published is the best of the bunch as it had many of the worlds top historians working on the records, which they went back and researched all the champion records and updated all of those records. The 1986-87 is a very important book in boxing history and pretty expensive to get a copy...usually between $150 and $300 on ebay, but ebay is probably the best place to buy Ring Record Books.

The 1941, 1942, 1943 and 1944 Ring Record Books are each All-Time record books in that they have listed the records of all fighters that had they're records to appear in the old record books such as the Police Gazette Annual (which published an annual from around 1897 thru around the early 20s and they last was I think 1930), T.S. Andrews Record Books (had pretty much the same timeline as the Police Gazette books, but they were published up to the middle 1930s), Everlast Record books and others, which the records that appear in the first four Ring Record Books are just those exact same records that appeared in the earlier record books.

The Ring Record Books have been a big help to boxing and boxing researchers and the records that appear in they're pages are a great place and a blue-print to start researching a certain fighters career.