Did anyone buy the Ralph Citro Boxing Records books?

[Controversial]

I used to get these shipped over from the states at some ridiculous cost every year. Did anyone else buy them? A huge book version of Boxrec.com, it listed the records of every professional fighter. They were fantastic, the hours I spent going through them is frightening

[barry]

I have nine volumes, actually ten as I have two copies of the 1992 edition, but I don't really care too much about this record book. Just not enough information about each bout. The only way that I will buy any copies now is if I get them for a cheap price on ebay, but I would never pay the cover price for a copy!!

[Controversial]

I have nine volumes, actually ten as I have two copies of the 1992 edition, but I don't really care too much about this record book. Just not enough information about each bout. The only way that I will buy any copies now is if I get them for a cheap price on ebay, but I would never pay the cover price for a copy!!

Yes but they were great for the time. Remember no internet then and believe it or not I used to keep handwritten records of fighters, so they were a godsend to me.

They couldn't have been too bad if you bought 10 copies !!!

[barry]

Well I got six copies for $1.95 each on ebay recently, so...it's not that I really liked them, they were just too cheap to pass up!

I too kept hand-written records...I have around 35, or 40 notebooks full of hand-written records.

[Collins2000]

I have nine volumes, actually ten as I have two copies of the 1992 edition, but I don't really care too much about this record book. Just not enough information about each bout. The only way that I will buy any copies now is if I get them for a cheap price on ebay, but I would never pay the cover price for a copy!!

Yes but they were great for the time. Remember no internet then and believe it or not I used to keep handwritten records of fighters, so they were a godsend to me.

They couldn't have been too bad if you bought 10 copies !!!

Regardless of what anyone now claims, they were a great asset in the pre-internet days.

[barry]

Yeah they were good to have pre-internet, but so were Bill Miley’s American Boxing Record Books, Barry Hugman’s British Boxing Yearbooks, Pugilato (which was my favorite series of record books for that time) and of course the 1986-1987 Ring Record Book…all of which are better than Fight Fax in my opinion, but just about anything boxing is good to have and the Fight Fax series are an important part of boxing records!

[Collins2000]

Yeah they were good to have pre-internet, but so were Bill Miley’s American Boxing Record Books, Barry Hugman’s British Boxing Yearbooks, Pugilato (which was my favorite series of record books for that time) and of course the 1986-1987 Ring Record Book…all of which are better than Fight Fax in my opinion, but just about anything boxing is good to have and the Fight Fax series are an important part of boxing records!

Hugman's books certainly covered the British scene well. He still puts them out I believe.

[barry]

Yeah...they have been put out every year since 1985.