Quote Originally Posted by Lyle View Post
I think the first event fighter was Joe Louis....my Grandmother told me a story about her whole family gathering around the radio to listen to one of his fights and by the time everything got set up and ready Joe had already KO'd the guy.

I'm not sure if they had live broadcasts of Dempsey fights or not
You mentioned a good one here in Dempsey. He used to draw huge crowds before the days of big advertising and promoting and even radio was still very primative!