These old magazines are in various levels of condition with several having torn covers as poor, to some that are in good shape.

 From my father's personal collection 70 years in the making.  A lifelong and avid sports fan, boxing was his favorite.

Group B.  Liston, Robinson, Walcott, Charles, Louis

Years: 1943-1970

March 1950: The Ring; International Recognition 1950, Ezzard Charles

November 1950: The Ring; Championship Number; Joe Louis, Ezzard Charles

December 1950: The Ring; Louis-Charles Pictures; Ezzard Charles – the Heavyweight Champion of the World

February 1965: Boxing and Wrestling – Two Magazines in One; Kings of the Ring; Joey Maxim – Light Heavyweight Titleholder; Kid Gavilan – Welterweight Champion; Jimmy Carter – Lightweight Champion; Dado Marino – Flyweight Champion; Vic Toweel – Bantamweight Titleholder; Jersey Joe Walcott – World Heavyweight Champion; Ray Robinson – King of the Middleweights; Sandy Saddler World Featherweight Champion

March 26, 1963: Sports Illustrated:  Liston and the Big Muddle – Our Mixed-Up Heavyweights

September 1970:  World Boxing: The Dempsey Years – Special Tribute at 75; Target Joe Frazier; Two Young Heavyweights zero in on the Champion; Boon Kirkman – Oozing with New Power and Full of Fight

February 1952: The Ring: Annual Rating of Boxers; Ray Robinson Fighter of the Year; Boxing’s Thrills

July 1943:  The Ring:  Future Champs in Army Camps; Buy United States War Bonds and Stamps; Johnny Greco, Lightweight Threat from Canada; Jimmy Barry, The Little Tiger

April 1948: The Ring; Eternal Hunt for Talent; The Fight Between Tom Molineaux of America and Tom Cribb of England on September 28, 1811; Global Boxing News and Photos

July 1950: The Ring: Bruce Woodcock – British Empire Heavyweight Champion

July 1957: Boxing and Wrestling: I Promise to KO Fullmer by Rory Calhoun; How Stanley Ketchel tried to Double Cross Me by Jack Johnson; Don’t cry for me Says Kid Gavilan; Features about Willie Pep, Bob Fitzsimmons, Battling Siki; Ratings-Results- Great Boxing Stories

March 1945: The Ring:  Leading Matches for 1945; Fight of Year – First Oma-Mauriello Battle Called Best of 1944; Third Meeting Set for 1945; Historic Attell-Moran Bout

December 1948: The Ring: Famous Holiday Fights; Thanksgiving Menu; Ketchel vs Papke – San Francisco, Calif 1908

July 1954:  The Ring:  Latest Reports from Marciano-Charles Training Camps; Official World Ratings; Color TV Fans See Red; Life Sketches on TV Stars; Wrestling’s $100,000 Men; Paddy DeMarco

October 1956: Boxing and Wrestling – Two Magazines in One – America’s Greatest Combat Magazine: Features – Henry Armstrong, Jimmy Soo, Charley Joseph; Personal Interview Willie Pastrano; The South’s Bid for the Ring’s Biggest Jackpot; Inside Story – The Archie Moore Nobody Knows; Expose! – How Jim Jeffries Became a Fighter by Accident; Ratings – Quiz – Fights of the Month

November 1956: Boxing and Wrestling – Two Magazines in One – America’s Greatest Combat Magazine:  Art Aragon, the Man They Hated into $1,000,000; Tony DeMarco - Uncrowned Welterweight Champion; Inside Story – When King Levinsky Choked Up; Tony Anthony – A Shot in the Arm for the Lightheavies; Meet Mario D’Agata, the New Champ – Quiz – Ratings

August 1957: Boxing and Wrestling: The Praying Champion Carmen Basilio by Reverend S. A. Lowther; The Slave Who Became Heavyweight Champion: Are the Courts Kayoing T.V. Fights; The Fat Man Who Licked Jack Dempsey

July 1948: The Ring:  Special Heavyweight Number; Max Schmeling – 1 RD; Bo Pastor – 11 RDS; Abe Simon – 6 RDS; Arturo Godoy – 8 RDS; Buddy Baer – 1 RD; Billy Conn – 8 RDS; Jersey Joe Walcott; Losers in Return Engagements

May 1950: The Ring: Joey Maxim – World’s Light-Heavyweight King

 

This lot includes a free framed photocopy of the cover of The Ring (December 1944) featuring James J Jeffries. (see October 1956 issue above)