What is the most significant boxing memorabilia you own? It doesn't have to be ultra rare or historically important, just something that is personally significant to you.
My Nana got me the July 1954 issue of Ring magazine. She said she picked it because it had my favourite fighter in the front, and my name on the back. It's in the lead up to the first Marciano fight.
I have a rare / out of print Boxing instructional written by Bobby Neil, from 1959. I also have a copy of an early 1960s Ring Magazine. I have a glass framed illustration of John L Sullivan, and a sketching of Mike Tyson (which isn't rare or worrth much, but the art is great). The one piece of memorabillia I would want to get my hands on is a physical copy of Boxiana (Sketches of Ancient and Modern Pugilism) by Pierce Egan. Unlikely, since the full set is near £8,000.
I went to a sports memorabilia show in the mid 90s and got pics taken with Ali and Frazier (separately). I have a printed ticket of the Lewiston fight, its in the same pic frame with the famous Neil Leifer picture of Ali standing over Liston
By and Large, REED's Memorabilia Consists of Fight Posters, Many of Which Came from the Homey Jake Donovan, Others from a Connection REED Has @ the Local Hooter's... Joe Rein, aka, "John Garfield" Held a Contest on BoxingFanatics Which REED Won...The Prize was a Box of Boxing Audio Tapes, Which Mrs. REED has Undoubtedly Stored Somewhere in the Attic... Maybe 10 or so Books, More than Half of Which are about Muhammad Ali...Don King's Biography is in the Mix Along w/Larry Holmes'...Tried to Obtain Aaron Pryor's Book "Flight of the Hawk" for MANY Years, to No Avail... And of Course there's REED's Own Drawings, Though it's Been OVER a Decade Since he's Drawn Anything... The KING of Boxing Memorabilia is Undoubtedly Nobleart; It's Literally His BUSINESS! REED
I have a Fritzie Zivic autograph. My aunt, she was a popular singer in Pittsburgh pre WW2, got his autograph and Billy Conn's autograph at a social event in 1940. Over the years the Conn autograph was lost. My partner in the boxing game has a huge collection of boxing memorabilia and the Zivic autograph is behind his bar, under glass.
