The Ring was established in 1922 and since 1945, it has named a Fight of the Year. Here is a list of Ring Magazine's Fights of the Year:
Famous quotes containing the words the year, ring, magazine, fights and/or year:
“Tis not to see the world
As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes,
And heart profoundly stirred;
And weep, and feel the fullness of the past,
The years that are not more.”
—Matthew Arnold (18221888)
“Rich and rare were the gems she wore,
And a bright gold ring on her hand she bore.”
—Thomas Moore (17791852)
“Do not be discouraged, if in a thousand instances you find your kindness rejected and wronged, your good evil-spoken of, and the hand you extend for the relief of others, cast insultingly away; the benevolence which cannot outlive these trials of its purity and strength, is not like the self-sacrifice of him, who went about doing good.”
—C., U.S. womens magazine contributor. American Ladies Magazine, pp. 331-4 (July 1828)
“Kids win thisnthat every day. Thousands of them. One out of a hundred fights professionally. One out of a thousands worth watchin, one out of a millions worth coffee and doughnuts.”
—Abraham Polonsky (b. 1910)
“Next year we shall be living in a country
That brought its soldiers home for lack of money.”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)