The Ring Magazine, April 2025 • Times Square • Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves
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DEPARTMENTS 8 COME OUT WRITING 11 RINGSIDE By Doug Fischer 16 STEVE’S SOAP BOX By Steve Kim 19 BERNSTEIN ON BOXING By Al Bernstein 24 BY THE NUMBERS By Don Stradley 26 RING RATINGS PACKAGE 32 NEW FACES By Cormac O’Donnell 82 MY FIRST TIME: ANTONIO TARVER By Tom Gray 87 FIGHT DOCTOR By Dr. Margaret Goodman 88 THE FACE OF BOXING By Wojtek Urbanek and Thomas Hauser 90 COMMISSIONER’S CORNER By Randy Gordon 96 FROM THE ARCHIVE 98 FIGHTLINE
60 THE BIG TIME JOSEPH PARKER HAS MORE BULK, MORE STRENGTH, MORE EXPERIENCE AND MORE DESIRE THAN EVER BEFORE By Gareth A Davies 66 A MONSTER’S PASSION A ONE-ON-ONE INTERVIEW WITH NAOYA INOUE – A MAN WITH SO MANY ACHIEVEMENTS AND YET SO MUCH MORE TO DO By Daisuke Sugiura 74 A MARVELOUS LEGACY EVEN BEFORE HIS ICONIC CLASH WITH THOMAS HEARNS, MARVIN HAGLER WAS BUILDING ONE OF HISTORY’S GREATEST MIDDLEWEIGHT CAREERS By Lee Groves 84 A FIFTY-YEAR HURRICANE BOB DYLAN’S SONG ABOUT THE IMPRISONMENT OF RUBIN CARTER REMAINS A POTENT CROSSOVER BETWEEN BOXING AND POP CULTURE By Don Stradley
36 LIGHT HEAVY LIES THE CROWN
“GREAT” IS A SACRED LABEL IN BOXING – TWO FORMER CHAMPS WEIGH IN ON WHETHER DMITRY BIVOL AND ARTUR BETERBIEV HAVE EARNED THE “G” WORD By Tom Gray 42 KEYSHAWN TO THE KINGDOM WITH A TITLE NOW HIS, KEYSHAWN DAVIS IS LOOKING TO UNLEASH HIS SKILLS ON ANYONE AND EVERYONE ELSE WITH A BELT By Thomas Gerbasi 48 TIMES SQUARE-OFF A HISTORY-MAKING EVENT IN MIDTOWN MANHATTAN WILL DETERMINE THE FATE OF A DEVIN HANEY-RYAN GARCIA REMATCH By Michael Rosenthal 54 IMMORTAL DIEGO CORRALES AND JOSE LUIS CASTILLO PUSHED EACH OTHER BEYOND BELIEF IN ONE OF THE BEST
FIGHTS OF ALL TIME By Bernard Fernandez
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