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Originally Posted by Rocco Del Sesto
I'm slowly going to work my way back into it. I'd decided to step away from the boxing for awhile to take a break from it and work on a project I'd had sitting on my to do shelf for the old table top All Star Baseball game. I'm getting close to finishing what I want to do with it for now (designing an excel spreadsheet for making some disks for it) and then will probably get back to the boxing.
I'd also kind of put a halt on it because I was and still am in the process of putting me together a collection of Ring, Boxing Illustrated and Boxing News magazines/papers from 1966/67 so I could read up more on as many of the heavyweight fighters from those years. I got interested in wanting to go back into 1966 because that is such an interesting year with all of Ali's title fights during that year in Europe and wanted to learn more about the British and European fighters from that time. It's been interesting reading these old publicationsOf the Boxing News papers I got all of 66 and 67 except for one week issue in each year. The Ring magazine I got all of 1967 and 1968 to cover the events of 1967 but I'm still missing February 1966. boxing illustrated I'm short still a couple issues in each of 1966 and 1967.
I also need to sit down and get my database set up in TB2.5 with all the extra HW's and LHW's that I had in my 2.0 data base. I still haven't done that. I really want to incorporate more the LHW's also into the project because there are some really interesting light heavies from the time period and there's such a mixing of fights between the two weight divisions that would give me a more extensive replay.
I am getting the itch to get back into rating fighters.
Rocco
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I'm really pleased to hear that your back on the project---I agree with you about how interesting that period was in boxing. It's really been overlooked!
BTW---I still have some Boxing Illustrated from that period---you're in Jersey, right? Let me know what issues you are missing.