The Ring was established in 1922 and since 1945, it has named a Fight of the Year. Here is a list of Ring Magazine's Fights of the Year:
Famous quotes containing the words ring, magazine, fights and/or year:
“I started out very quiet and I beat Mr. Turgenev. Then I trained hard and I beat Mr. de Maupassant. Ive fought two draws with Mr. Stendhal, and I think I had an edge in the last one. But nobodys going to get me in any ring with Mr. Tolstoy unless Im crazy or I keep getting better.”
—Ernest Hemingway (18991961)
“It is as often a weakness in the aged to dictate to the young, as it is folly in the young to slight the warnings of the aged.”
—H., U.S. womens magazine contributor. American Ladies Magazine, pp. 230-3 (May 1828)
“A man is but an ass
Who fights in a cuirass,”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18361911)
“For Afro-Americans, it could be argued that every year theyve spent in this country since they arrived in chains to perform forced labor has been 1984.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)