About 5 years or so, I managed to collect, catalogue, and checklist the entire 180-card Japanese World Boxing Magazine cards from 1996-1999 and documented it here. This set has Manny Pacquiao's rookie card in it as well as dozens of other boxers that only have cards in this set. I still am not aware of the checklist being in Japanese yet so this was an extremely rewarding challenge. At the time, I also knew of the bromides that World Boxing had done from ~1982-1990, but had never tried collecting any of them. I am not sure how many of the bromides there are in the entire set and I am not sure I plan on collecting them all, but I wanted to pick up the earliest one that I knew of that features Mike Tyson. I managed to snag this August 1987 one at a good deal and took a chance. It is Card #64 and features Mike Tyson in his prime. These bromides are rather large at 6.5" x 10" and were affixed inside the magazine so you'd have to cut them out which looks to be very challenging. My bromide was already cut, albeit not very well, so I didn't have to face this daunting task. I just might get the bug and try to at least checklist what I can.
Very cool magazine oddball issue. Loved watching Tyson back in the late 80's.
ReplyDeleteHe was a beast back then. I imagine that there are quite a few more big-name boxers in this set.
DeleteWould love to come across this issue
ReplyDeleteIt's an early card of Tyson no doubt.
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