Iconic Boxing Photos: Post them here!

[Spicoli]

That's insane! And we whine today when we cannot find a 'decent' stream .

[goti71]

That's insane! And we whine today when we cannot find a 'decent' stream .

Amazing
I can't help wondering what the safety measures might have been like though.

[smashup]

The Thirty Arches Bowl in New Jersey held around 80,000 people and was purpose built for the fight.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyle%27s_Thirty_Acres

[smashup]

That's insane! And we whine today when we cannot find a 'decent' stream .

Amazing
I can't help wondering what the safety measures might have been like though.

Great article about the fight, it's amazing the stadium never collapsed!

The eight-sided wooden arena, costing $325,000, was 300,000 square feet and was built in two months by 600 carpenters and 400 workers using 2,250,000 feet of lumber and 60 tons of nails. The attendees paid between five dollars and fifty cents for general admission and up to fifty dollars for ringside seats. Tickets were available at B.F. Keith's Theatre on Newark Avenue and Bay Street. According to Roberts, "In the best seats the match would be watched without fear of life or limb; but the wooden outskirts of the arena shook frightfully from any commotion initiated by the holders of the expensive seats. It was truly a democratic arrangement"

Shahbazian reports that at the end of the eleven-minute fight when "the roaring crowd leaped it its feet, those who were there insist, the pine structure actually swayed"

Full Articlehttps://www.njcu.edu/programs/jchist...tier_Fight.htm

[sanatogen]

That's insane! And we whine today when we cannot find a 'decent' stream .

Amazing
I can't help wondering what the safety measures might have been like though.

Back in 50 years ago, crowds at some Football Stadiums were over 100,00 -130,000 . One friend mentioned the rivers of pish flowing down lines of the stadium.
I'd imagine in those pics the situation was much worse.