Joe Louis vrs Lee Savold(1951)a milestone or footnote?

[Caractacus]

One of the theaters that had shown the live event also made a kinescope of it so that the crowds that were turned away
could watch the replay of the fight.CBS later broadcast the film version of it the following Wednesday on national television.
Here is a clip of the fight,which looks grainy and is looks like its from a video-taped from the FIGHTS OF THE CENTURY television show by Bill Cayton and Jim Jacobs in the early 1960's.The originall ring commenteters voice is replaced by a voice over.

[Caractacus]

One of the theaters that had shown the live event also made a kinescope of it so that the crowds that were turned away
could watch the replay of the fight.CBS later broadcast the film version of it the following Wednesday on national television.
Here is a clip of the fight,which looks grainy and is looks like its from a video-taped from the FIGHTS OF THE CENTURY television show by Bill Cayton and Jim Jacobs in the early 1960's.The originall ring commenteters voice is replaced by a voice over.

[Caractacus]

from June-10-1951 newspaper
"The IBC regards this as an experiment and doesnt expect to reap much revenue from it.Some day in the future,its going to be the big money-maker".

Here are the six cities the Joe Louis-Lee Savold bout was shown in and the names of the theatres

-Washington DC/Lincoln theater,RKO Kieth
-Pittsburgh/Fulton theater
-Chicago/State-Lake,Tivoli
-Baltimore/Loew's Century
-Albany/Fabian Palace
-Cleveland/RKO Palace

[Caractacus]

Cassius Clay vrs Doug Jones was closed-circuit I believe.
or maybe only the second home "Pay-Per-View" in TV History
It was shown live in 33 cities in the USA

[Riddick Bowie]

yes, but though inevitable, this would lead to TV which most commentators blame for an overall decline of the sport begining in the mid-50s.

This in turn brought about the closing of small halls and fight clubs, less fighters in numbers and the eventual disecting of divisions, sanctioning bodies and demise of the sport. Of course HBO and pay per view capitalized and made big on the few big names available (comparitively speaking), and sanctioning bodies added to the mess by having their own champions, ratings - often different, one from the other, and generally we are left with the remnant of once a huge and popular, competative and great sport.

Progress, always comes at a cost. Sad thing is we could return this sport back to a more savory and exceptable commodity.

Please DO!

Good overview here of what went wrong with boxing. A lot of it could have been avoided however by simply having one sanctioning body like in normal sports.

[Caractacus]

I read (somewhere) that this was the first Boxing event ever to be shown LIVE from Florida to coast to coast across the USA
via "coaxial cable")
the first trans-continental sporting event was a baseball game between New York Giants vrs Brooklyn Dodgers..
on October-3-1951)