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The following article appears in the December 2021 issue of The Ring Magazine. Subscribe here. A PANEL OF HISTORY-MINDED EDITORS, SCRIBES AND PUNDITS CONTRIBUTED THEIR TOP FIVE FIGHTERS IN ALL 17 OF THE MODERN WEIGHT CLASSES TO DETERMINE THE BEST OF THE BEST IN EACH DIVISION Boxing as we know it has been around since […]
The Ring began awarding championship belts in 1922. The very first Ring belt was given to World Heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey shortly after the launch of the magazine.. Inspired by Walter Camp's annual All-America football team, Nat Fleischer pioneered the concept of boxing rankings and published the very first of its kind in the February 1925 issue of The Ring.
The Champion. A long-frustrated Hagler would finally break through in the 1980s Ron Borges. Role of a Lifetime. Hagler was the rare case of a fighter who never looked back Don Stradley. The Noble Warrior. The Marvelous One made a deep impression on those who knew him Steve Kim. Releasing the Monster.
Hace 5 días · Oscar De La Hoya took on the first true physical threat of his welterweight title reign when he took on unbeaten former WBA beltholder Ike Quartey on February 13, 1999, at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, and their instant classic nip-and-tack 12-round battle lived up to its high expectations. To commemorate the 25th anniversary of De La ...
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31 de may. de 2024 · The Ring magazine has awarded its championship in multiple weight-classes since 1922. The first boxer to ever be awarded the honor was famed heavyweight Jack Dempsey and the second was flyweight sensation Pancho Villa. After Steve Farhood took over duties as editor-in-chief in the 1990s, The Ring stopped awarding its championship.
5 de ene. de 2024 · Naoya Inoue has won Ring Magazine’s prestigious Fighter of the Year award for his 2023 campaign which saw the 30-year-old boxer-puncher soundly defeat then-undefeated WBC/WBO 122-pound titleholder Stephen Fulton in July and WBA/IBF 122-pound beltholder Marlon Tapales in December to earn The Ring’s vacant junior featherweight title and undisputed champion status.
