I STARTED writing for The Ring in 1994 and continued for two decades. For most of that time, Nigel Collins was editor, transforming it into a must-read magazine with high production values, while boosting the status of The Ring ratings and reintroducing its championship belts. It is mainly for this work that he so deservedly entered the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2015.
Nigel was a splendid editor – courageous, immune to outside pressure, full of good ideas tailored to our strengths and always so encouraging. But he was also an incisive writer on the sport he so
