Boxing Memorabilia

Stanley Weston’was a boxing afficionado who became a prolific sportswriter and sports photographer. He promoted the sport of boxing in innumerable ways throughout his career. Weston was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2006. more...

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Early Career - Boxing Publications

Weston's love affair with boxing started in 1937 when he landed a summer job as a stock boy at The Ring magazine where he worked for his neighbor, and founder of The Ring, Nat Fleischer. Learning from Fleischer, Weston immersed himself in nearly every facet of the boxing magazine business. He was a writer, photographer, graphic designer, artist and eventually a publisher. In 1953 Weston launched a magazine whose title was Boxing & Wrestling, a competitor to The Ring. His office, art studio and typewriter were all conveniently located on his kitchen table. It was a tough time for Weston. He was competing against his old boss and one of the most popular magazines of the time – yet he persevered.

Magazine Publisher

Over the years he would launch numerous publications, forever coming up with interesting angles and cover stories that kept fight fans from around the world reaching for his magazines.

Stanley Weston followed his goals and made history. He made history because he was a prolific recorder of history – boxing history. In addition to The Ring, the impressive roster of magazines Weston published included Boxing & Wrestling, Boxing Illustrated, Boxing International, World Boxing, Boxing, The Boxing Almanac, Big Book of Boxing, and KO. In fact, in the history of sports publishing, no one has published more boxing magazines than Stanley Weston. Over his 65 year career, Weston published approximately 2,000 magazines devoted to pugilism, a feat that is certain to stand as one of the most enduring records in magazine publishing.

Artist, Photographer, Author

Most members of the Boxing Hall of Fame who have been enshrined as an observer earned their rightful place for their accomplishments in just one facet of the sweet science. Perhaps they were writers, photographers, historians or artists. But for those who knew Mr. Weston, as he was affectionately referred to by his loyal employees, his expertise was not limited to just one aspect of boxing. Instead, he was truly a boxing renaissance man with expertise in many areas.

He was a talented boxing artist who painted 57 covers for The Ring – with his first cover – an extraordinary painting of Billy Conn, for the December 1939 issue.

He was a respected author who penned several of the definitive books on boxing history, including History of the Heavyweights, The Best of The Ring, and with Steve Farhood, he authored The Ring: Boxing the 20th Century, which, according to Amazon.com, ranks as one of the top 15 “must-have” boxing books of all time.

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