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 like well the ring of your last maxim, It is only the fear of death makes us reason of impossibilities. And but for fear, death itself is an impossibility.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“When a girl of today leaves school or college and looks about her for material upon which to exercise her trained intelligence, there are a hundred things that force themselves upon her attention as more vital and necessary than mastering the housewife.”
—Cornelia Atwood Pratt, U.S. author, womens magazine contributor. The Delineator: A Journal of Fashion, Culture and Fine Arts (January 1900)
“A man is but an ass
Who fights in a cuirass,”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18361911)
“The chrysanthemums astringent fragrance comes
Each year to disguise the clanking mechanism
Of machine within machine within machine.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)