The Ring – March 1969

Description

This is the March 1969 issue of The Ring. It features the “Fight of the Year” and the “Fighter of the Year.” It is the “Souvenir Annual Big 96 Page Issue.” A number of the key articles are listed on the cover. There are other articles/features, as well as black & white photos and vintage advertisements. The publication contains 100 pages (including covers) and measures approximately 8.25 x 11 inches.
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The Ring (often called The Ring magazine) is a boxing magazine that was first published in 1922 as a boxing and wrestling magazine. As the sporting legitimacy of professional wrestling came more into question, The Ring shifted to becoming exclusively a boxing-oriented publication. The magazine is currently owned by Oscar De La Hoya's Golden Boy Enterprises, which acquired it in 2007. Ring began publishing annual ratings of boxers in 1924.
The Ring, founded and published by future International Boxing Hall of Fame member Nat Fleischer, has perpetrated boxing scandals, helped make unknown fighters famous worldwide and covered boxing's biggest events of all time. Dan Daniel was a co-founder and prolific contributor to The Ring through most of its history. It refers to itself (and is referred to by others) as "The Bible of Boxing." During the Fleischer years, the contents page or indicia of every issue carried the claim: "The Ring is a magazine which a man may take home with him. He may leave it on his library table safe in the knowledge that it does not contain one line of matter either in the text or the advertisements which would be offensive. The publisher of The Ring guards this reputation of his magazine jealously. It is entertaining and it is clean."
In 1972, following Fleischer's death, managing editor Nat Loubet, his son-in-law, took over as publisher, launching, in 1977, three international editions of the magazine.