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    Default Ring Magazine sold to Turki Alalshikh

    Just seen this. A long time since I bought a hard copy but still refer to their ratings for definitive view. Not sure how I feel about it being on Turks hands now....

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    Default Re: Ring Magazine sold to Turki Alalshikh

    Tic raised this in one of his posts.

    I thought it was good that it was away from Oscar and that if I was a billionaire fan like Turki then I would do the same as it is the bible of boxing. I was looking for a hard copy at WH Smith but could not find one.

    The posters were what I bought the magazine but that was a long time ago.
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    Not big on this. Took a very long time to be invested and hold the Ring to a standard after Oscar and promotion became direct part of it. And never fully got to that point but always found the rankings fairly thought out as multiple independent voices have input and vote. I simply cannot imagine a man who goes by "His Excellency" and wants to confine future Riyadh cards to only Saudi Arabia soil would be an improvement at all. In the background I wonder if he's leaning into controlling rankings as it goes and it feels like a rich kid on a trophy hunt for his hobby collection. If the intent is to make the Ring belt center focus and shut out the other sanctioning bodies over time well, you're also trying to streamline and limit lesser-known fighters who actually get a crack at notoriety and exposure. Also think of his prior talk about making a league and such. Early though so it'll play out. For right now I'll stick to the 4 file boxes of past issues in the den

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    bringing back physical editions & digitizing the whole catalog sounds great. talk of continued independent ratings panel & coverage also sounds good but we'll have to wait & see. for some reason i see a two sanctioning bodies future, possibly under the same umbrella that lead to an undisputed champion
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    Interesting mega gala for the awards event. A few winners were Prospect of the year...Moses Itauma. Fighter of the Year...Usyk. Upset of the year...Surace KO Munguia. KO of the year...Dubois KO Josua. Round of the year...Usyk-Fury I round 9. FOTY...Raymond Ford vs Otabek Kholmatov. Oh and the Lifetime Achievement award went to humanitarian and all around boxing good guy Don King .

    Anyone able to get their hands on a print copy yet?

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    Turki said he will only print 20,000 hard copies so they will be collectors items. I would love to get one, it is an 103 year old boxing magazine company that I loved buy as a boy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Master View Post
    Turki said he will only print 20,000 hard copies so they will be collectors items. I would love to get one, it is an 103 year old boxing magazine company that I loved buy as a boy.
    Yeah I heard that , but I’m guessing that’s 20,000 a month?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark TKO View Post
    Just seen this. A long time since I bought a hard copy but still refer to their ratings for definitive view. Not sure how I feel about it being on Turks hands now....

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianma...rki-alalshikh/
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    Default Re: Ring Magazine sold to Turki Alalshikh

    Quote Originally Posted by ykdadamaja View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Mark TKO View Post
    Just seen this. A long time since I bought a hard copy but still refer to their ratings for definitive view. Not sure how I feel about it being on Turks hands now....

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianma...rki-alalshikh/
    everything "western," is being stripped away from Anglo Americans and Europeans. lol...


    Money talks, as with everything else in life.

    Just look at how El Clasico (between Real Madrid vs FC Barcelona) was played in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia just yesterday... after years of being held almost exclusively in Spain.

    These guys are just throwing money around left and right... and of course, who can resist that, right?

    Still expecting one day for the Saudis to host an NFL game there. Or a World Baseball Classic.

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