The Ring Magazine - The Bible of Boxing, October 2025 • Volume 102, No. 11
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That’s the PIF Effect ACCELERATING INNOVATION
DEPARTMENTS 4 OPENING SHOTS 13 COME OUT WRITING
28 A TRIO OF ARCHETYPES DWIGHT MUHAMMAD QAWI, DON ELBAUM AND TOMMY BROOKS PERSONIFIED THE RICHNESS IN BOXING’S CAST OF CHARACTERS By Don Stradley 48 CALLING THE SHOTS DAVID BENAVIDEZ DISCUSSES BEING AVOIDED BY OTHER FIGHTERS AND FINALLY GETTING THE STARRING ROLE IN A HUGE HEADLINER By Joseph Santoliquito 56 SOMETHING TO SAY BRIAN NORMAN JR. IS BRINGING POWER, SPEED, RING IQ AND SOUTHERN PRIDE TO HIS POTENTIAL BREAKOUT VS. DEVIN HANEY By Corey Erdman 62 TAKING THE LEAD A VICTORY OVER BAM RODRIGUEZ COULD PLACE FERNANDO “PUMA” MARTINEZ IN THE PANTHEON OF GREAT ARGENTINE FIGHTERS By Diego Morilla
68 A STEP TOWARD ALL THE WAY
IN PUSHING THROUGH A ROUGH NIGHT IN THE RING, ABDULLAH MASON LEARNED HE HAD THE STUFF OF CHAMPIONS
17 RINGSIDE By Doug Fischer 23 BERNSTEIN ON BOXING By Al Bernstein 26 STEVE’S SOAPBOX By Steve Kim 36 BY THE NUMBERS By Don Stradley 39 RING RATINGS 88 FUNDAMENTALS By Anson Wainwright 90 THE FIGHT DOCTOR By Dr. Margaret Goodman 92 COMMISSIONER’S CORNER By Randy Gordon 94 FINISHING SHOTS 96 FIGHTLINE
By Michael Rosenthal 72 THE SURVIVOR
A TWIST OF FATE SAVED JIMMY CLARK FROM A PLANE CRASH THAT WIPED OUT AN ENTIRE BOXING TEAM By Nigel Collins 78 THE THRILLA AT 50 REVISITING THE ICONIC THIRD CLASH BETWEEN MUHAMMAD ALI AND JOE FRAZIER By Tom Gray 84 BLOOD AND HATE VIVID STORYTELLING SHINES IN A NEW BIOGRAPHY ABOUT MIDDLEWEIGHT LEGEND MARVELOUS MARVIN HAGLER By Thomas Gerbasi
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