Source and further information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_News
"Harry Mullan, who died in 1999, was acknowledged as a world authority on boxing. He edited Boxing News, the world's oldest publication devoted to the sport"
Source and further information:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ultimate-Encyclopedia-Boxing-Harry-Mullan/dp/1844424014
"Mike Casey is a freelance journalist, author, former editor, and boxing historian who has contributed to numerous trade and consumer titles in his 30-year career. He is a former contributor to the oldest boxing weekly, "Boxing News," and has also contributed to many other boxing publications and websites."
Source and further information:
http://cyberboxingzone.com/boxing/casey/MC_index.htm
Further information:
- "Welcome to the world's oldest boxing magazine
Boxing News is the longest-running boxing magazine still in publication, dating back to 1909.":
http://www.boxingnewsonline.net/BN08/detail.asp?id=149
Please notice that even "Boxing News" just tells that they are the longest-running boxing magazine *still in publication*.
2) Actually, they might have been some older magazines of some kind, because of the long history of boxing:
"The first record of pugilism was found in Egypt and dates back to year 3000 BC. Boxing
evolved over time and became part of the first Olympic Games held in 688 BC in
Olympia."
Source and further information:
http://www.hreoc.gov.au/racial_discrimination/whats_the_score/pdf/boxing.pdf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykuRwRolYoQ
" If a man finds himself over-matched at this foul play,
he usually shouts " In soccorso!" and by the aid of the
first comer turns the tables upon his antagonist. lie
again finds his abettors, and the combat thickens, till the
street wears the appearance of the stage at the conclusion
of Tom Thumb. " At Sienna, the art puts on a more scientific form. In
this city are regular academies for pugilistic exercises;
there is a code for the regulation of boxing matches; a
certain time for resurrection is accorded to the one knocked
down; and, in short, the strife assumes all the distinguished
features of a courteous combat.
" In this place also, Vicenza, and at Florence, people
contend with what may be called courteous weapons, that
is, with the unarmed fist; but at Pisa and Leghorn, they
clench a cylindrical piece of stick, which projects-at each
end of the doubled fist, and indicts a cruel wound when
they strike obliquely I am nearly certain that I have
seen the representation of some antique statue, with the
clenched hand and secured to the fist by strings; but I have no recollection where." "
Source and further information:
http://www.thearma.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23754
