An outstanding artist, Weston painted 57 covers for The Ring with his first cover, a painting of Billy Conn, for the December 1939 issue.
He was also an author who penned several of the definitive books on boxing history, including History of the Heavyweights, The Heavyweight Champions, The Best of The Ring, The Chronicle of Boxing and, with Steve Farhood, The Ring: Boxing the 20th Century which, according to Amazon.com,