Iconic Boxing Photos: Post them here!

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[Master]

Wow!!!!!!!

That was boxing at its peak.

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Love that pic 😎

[Master]

That Dempsey fight was a mismatch as well.

[Dark Lord Al]

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Who parted that geezers hair .... Moses?

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Is that DLA?

[Boxer4life]

[Master]

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Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston 2



It freaks me out this photo.

For one you'd think such an iconic fight would be held in some massive place but no the second Ali Liston match was held in a hockey rink in Lewiston, Maine and two the way everyone is smartly dressed, seated, still and motionless. It almost looks like a theater crowd or japanese boxing crowd or some1 giving a speech at a political rally

I mean if you were to take out the ring you'd never guess that the ppl were watching boxing. I guess in the UK we are more used to major boxing fights having a football (soccer for my USA brothers) atmosphere but some guy set up a remote camera in a corner of the arena to capture the entire stadium during the fight.

Dr Bernard Hopkins



This isn't an iconic photo but I just think it's funny

Too Much Greatness

Ezzard Charles, Jake LaMotta, Ray Robinson, Ike Williams, Willie Pep & Manuel Ortiz



Ali Training

"Been chopping trees. I done something new for this fight. I done wrestled with an alligator. That's right. I have wrestled with an alligator. I done tussled with a whale"...........We all know the rest



"I can't sing and I can't dance, but I can lick any SOB in the house.' - Jack Dempsey

Years before becoming the World Heavyweight Champion, Jack Dempsey left the family home at the age of 16. Dempsey found himself homeless, hungry and poor. He'd visit saloons and challenge to fight anyone in the house and bets would be made, Dempsey would usually win.

[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.

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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

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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

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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.