“That Vintage Feeling”

Welcome to That’s Boxing. The goal of this venture is to build a boxing magazine. I grew up on magazines. I guess that makes me sound old. I remember the feeling of a fresh magazine in my hands, the way it was so slick, and the way the binding would crack on the first opening. Skateboarding mags were the currency of middle school. Everyone passed around the same copy of thrasher or big brother, the rag getting rougher as it worked its way down the ranks of cool in the school. in those days I rarely saw a fresh magazine, never had a subscription, but I remember getting lost in the gloss of those pages. Later in life I got into boxing, and have seen some nice collections of vintage boxing zines, and I get the same feelings. And I wonder what it must have been like to crack the cover on a fresh copy of Ring magazine in 1973. Any starry eyed soul can get drawn in to the allure of greatness. When you’ve got very little its easy to dream big. And here we are now in these modern times, when print media is a shadow of its former self. Internet and apps rule the day. I remember the summer that we all got smart phones and I recall it as a real moment of tangible change in my life. And just like everyone else I got rewired to have my info and entertainment come in fifteen second clips and sensational headlines. So here I sit, typing away trying to explain how I plan to use modern media to achieve that vintage feeling. I am gonna start simple. Sharing stories, videos and pictures of the boxing world that I am so lucky to inhabit everyday. As my boxing world grows, so too will this magazine. And I won’t stop trying to capture that vintage feeling.