The Ring: Boxing: The 20th Century

By Stanley Weston

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792458508
• ISBN13: 9780792458500
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: BDD Illustrated Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 3.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 12.0" x 1.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A Must for the Boxing Historian or Boxing Fan

As I was growing up, I always considered myself a quasi-Boxing Historian. I maintained my interest in Boxing even though "alphabet soup" became the norm of Champions in each weight class. I had always thought it was intriguing to have two rival organizations crown champions because it would lead to a "unified champion". It was when suddenly there were more than two organizations did my interest wane. As such, with multiple organizations tracking champions and challengers - it often became difficult to keep records (there was no internet 20 years ago) of who fought, who held titles, and who was contending. I always depended on "Ring Magazine" as a source that could provide me this information. Even though they did their own ratings, they did an outstanding job at providing Boxing coverage - especially with some of the lesser known weight classes whose champions did not reside in the U.S. Still as a Boxing Historian, I always desired to have a single book that I can pull up information on the history of Boxing. The internet is a good source, but there still is nothing like having something on your bookshelf. Therefore, I was thrilled that Ring Publisher Stanley Weston and Ring Editor-in-Chief Steven Farhood came out with a spectacular 352 page book entitled "The Ring: Boxing the 20th Century". This is as complete a history of boxing from 1900 through 1992 as I have seen anywhere (the book was first published in 1993). The book is a beautiful hardcover edition that has big (8 x 11") pages. The key thing that makes "The Ring: Boxing the 20th Century" a great source is that it is one of those books, you can pick up at anytime and get information. The book is also in a very easy to read format. The organization of this book is the key. Here are some of the key features: - The Book is broken up into decades. It starts out with the 1900s and goes through the 1990s. The decades are arranged in chronological order, so it is very easy to find the information you are looking for. - Each Decade features a big two page summary of the decade from a Boxing perspective. Since the pages are 8 x 11", there is plenty of information. - Within each decade, there is a 1 to 2 page summary of a time period within the decade (I'll refer to these as the Summary Sections). From 1900 through 1947, there is one page devoted to each year. From 1948 to 1962, there are two pages per each 6 months a year. From 1962 through 1992, there are two pages for every 4 months of the year. This again makes this very easy to obtain the information you need. - For each of the Summary Sections, the major Boxing events are put into quasi "newspaper articles" complete with a headline. The "articles" provide a wealth of information and since they are easy to read, you can get the information very quickly. - The Summary Sections also include a panel that summarizes all of the World Title Fights (by weight class) that took place during the timeframe that