Boxing Illustrated

2011-09-05T17:17:00.000-07:00

There is hope for boxing as a sport. Anyone who has experienced the Junior Golden Gloves, the Golden Gloves, or Collegiate Boxing knows that the sport still has a lot of life in it although it's top tier professional segment is being choked to death by the greed of the few promoters who keep the best of boxing relegated to the few willing to pay the PPV rates. Boxing fans need to remember that back in the 1970's the PKA Karate craze was in full bloom and many predicted that PKA Karate would replace boxing. It has now vanished. The MMA really seems to be encroaching more on the 'pro rasslin' crowds than the boxing crowd. The MMA is not killing boxing, it's just giving pro wrestlijng a legitimate alterative. Pro boxing is suffering from the lack of new blood in the top of the sport, and it needs some help right now. Those enamored with the success of the NFL need only to look back on the first decade of television, when there were Wednesday Night Fights on CBS, Friday Night Fights on NBC, and Sunday Night Fights on ABC.
Viewers knew the fighters and could follow them. With today's miniscule ratings on broadcast TV, the heretofore modest numbers pulled by the NFL on NBC on Sunday nights make it a staple of all TV viewing. It's high time that somebody come to the forefront in the boxing world and reintroduce the sweet science to a national TV audience. Done properly, it would be blockbuster ratings and would provide the sport with the ability to have the general sports fan enjoy top boxing and learn the fighters and the fight game.

2011-03-24T11:19:00.000-07:00

BOXING ILLUSTRATED ANNOUNCES HOME VIDEO LABEL

Boxing Illustrated will now offer all of the fights on its IPTV channel Boxing Illustrated.Net, on DVD! You can find these DVDs at the Shop TV4U.Com store under the Reach Entertainment Sporting Goods E Store. What a great collection of fights, and most of them from the glory days of the Boxing Illustrated magazine. Enjoy!

2011-02-24T11:55:00.000-08:00

We are saddened today by the loss of Bill Nimmo, the original 'Bill the Bartender' from the iconic Pabst Blue Ribbon fights seen on CBS back in the 1950's. Bill began his career in Cincinnati and eventally became an announcer for Jackie Gleason and even a game show host in addition to his duties peddling Pabst Blue Ribbon beer on Wednesday nights on CBS. You can still enjoy Bill on the Pabst replays seen on TVS Sports.Com and TVS Boxing.Net. Farewell, old friend. We'll keep your memory alive by continuing to call this blog 'Bill the Bartender'.

2010-08-10T21:00:00.000-07:00

BILL THE BARTENDER IS BACK!

Hey boxing fans.....remember when ol' Bill the Bartender would pour you a cold Pabst Blue Ribbon during the CBS Wednesday Night Fights with Jack Drees? Well those fights are back on TVS Boxing.Net and I'm back right here in the legendary Boxing Illustrated magazine. There's a lot of great boxing on TVS Boxing.Net.....Ali, Liston, Quarry, Foreman, Basilio, Aragon, Marciano, Pep, Patterson, Walcott, Charles, Tyson, Robinson, Louis, and so many more champions. We have new fights too...and even top amateur fights like new college fights and the Golden Gloves!
And I'll be here to keep you up to date with boxing news and information, plus some great boxing stories. What is boxing, really, without those great stories? In the old days you could only join me, Bill the Bartender, on Wednesday nights. That's all changed now with the internet. Now you can see me 24/7 on TVS Boxing.Net and read what I have to say here at Boxing Illustrated.Net. It's nice to get reacquainted with you, or start a new relationship with a new boxing fan.

And, oh yeah.... What'll You Have?

2009-10-17T12:31:00.000-07:00

Boxing Illustrated.Net E Magazine Features Revamped Look; Estblishing Print Edition

You are now looking at the new and improved Boxing Illustrated E Magazine, complete with video and enhanced graphics. We're very pleased with the new look and especially like the fact that boxing fans can now contribute to the magazine via an article submission section and this Blog section. There are no more involved fans than boxing fans so it only stands to reason that the fans shuld contribute to the magazine as well.

Boxing Illustrated.Net is the text companion piece to TVS Boxing.Net, the full time IPTV video channel that features a century of classic televised fights from Joe Louis through Rocky Marciano and Muhammad Ali, to Mike Tyson. The folks at the TVS Television network have done a great job in lining up classic and current fights to give fight fans a fun channel to watch whatever fight they want to whenever they want to.

Be sure to stay tuned to special editions of Boxing Illustrated that will come in a print edition.
It's a great thing to see Ring Magazine, and now Boxing Illustrated Magazine, return to their former glory.

2009-04-05T11:47:00.001-07:00

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