RINGSIDE By Doug Fischer AN EXTRA-SPECIAL SPECIAL
August 2025 Volume 102, No. 9
Founder Nathaniel Fleischer (1888-1972) Owner His Excellency Turki Alalshikh
Editor-in-Chief Douglass Fischer Managing Editor Tom Gray Senior Editor Brian Harty Creative Director Lamar Clark Controller Deborah L. Harrison
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W elcome to our latest special issue! In The the publication’s grandest effort in previewing an anticipated superfight. I might be wrong about that. I might not be wrong. Let’s just say this is the most comprehensive big-bout preview issue in recent memory. Starting with a cover creation by legendary photographer David LaChapelle, we went all-out for this Ring’s 103-year history, it is quite possibly
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expanded August edition – dedicating 128 pages to the Canelo Alvarez- Terence Crawford showdown on September 13. OK, slight exaggeration there. We have around 20 ad pages – shoutout to our sponsors – but it’s not an overstatement to say that more than 100 pages of the magazine you hold in your hands expertly examines the matchup and significance of the highest-profile super middleweight championship in the history of the division.
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