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Rocco Del Sesto · 01-19-2019, 01:01 PM

Question for any Ring Magazine expert/historians out there. I've been gradually collecting them to go back to the earlier 1950s particularly to research British heavyweight boxing along with European.

I'd got complete back to 1954. I'm trying to cover the time period of the careers of the prominent mid/late 1950s British HW's like Henry Cooper, Brian London, Dick Richardson, etc. I wanted to look back at least a couple years before that what was going on in British and European boxing so I'd started collecting some 1952 and 1953's. With the issues I've attained I see that the Ring did not start posting their British Empire ratings till around July 1952. I see the Continental (European) ratings from the beginning of 1952.

Can anyone tell me if in fact that mid 1952 is when Ring started the British Empire ratings and maybe just did the sporadically for some reason before that? I know Jan thru think it was June 1952 they did not post them. Then started doing so after that. Anyone have some historical background on why Ring posted the continental but not the British Empire. Partly just curious the history behind the ratings, but partly then this 1952 time period would look to be a good start point of my look back through the British/European heavyweight/LHW world.

01-19-2019, 01:01 PM	#1817
Rocco Del Sesto Hall Of Famer Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Watkinsville, Georgia Posts: 2,065	Ring Magazines Question for any Ring Magazine expert/historians out there. I've been gradually collecting them to go back to the earlier 1950s particularly to research British heavyweight boxing along with European. I'd got complete back to 1954. I'm trying to cover the time period of the careers of the prominent mid/late 1950s British HW's like Henry Cooper, Brian London, Dick Richardson, etc. I wanted to look back at least a couple years before that what was going on in British and European boxing so I'd started collecting some 1952 and 1953's. With the issues I've attained I see that the Ring did not start posting their British Empire ratings till around July 1952. I see the Continental (European) ratings from the beginning of 1952. Can anyone tell me if in fact that mid 1952 is when Ring started the British Empire ratings and maybe just did the sporadically for some reason before that? I know Jan thru think it was June 1952 they did not post them. Then started doing so after that. Anyone have some historical background on why Ring posted the continental but not the British Empire. Partly just curious the history behind the ratings, but partly then this 1952 time period would look to be a good start point of my look back through the British/European heavyweight/LHW world.