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I wonder if there is/was any "Boxing Arena"? You know, arena specifically for boxing only.

Ettt9350 wrote: ↑16 Aug 2018, 20:52 That is really interesting, I had not even heard of Malbork castle but after a quick read up on it I feel like I should know about it.

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Would be nice to have a boxing event there.
The castle and events around it attracts more and more tourists every year.
Unfortunately, after WW2 they didnt rebuilded the old town (and castle itself also looked slighty different before the war and was damaged a lot too) what left there they used to rebuild Warsaw. Instead of old town they constructed ugly socrealist "Polish Peoples' Republic 20th anniversary residential"

dagilechia wrote: ↑18 Aug 2018, 11:39 I wonder if there is/was any "Boxing Arena"? You know, arena specifically for boxing only.

The Blue Horizon?

Sequitorian wrote: ↑18 Aug 2018, 12:18 The Blue Horizon?

Yeah thats what i was looking for, fantastic place, thanks

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dagilechia wrote: ↑18 Aug 2018, 12:32

Sequitorian wrote: ↑18 Aug 2018, 12:18 The Blue Horizon?

Yeah thats what i was looking for, fantastic place, thanks

It wasn't only for boxing. That came later in it's life time. I think it recently got torn down for new construction. I was there many times. Great place.

JMac wrote: ↑18 Aug 2018, 17:47

dagilechia wrote: ↑18 Aug 2018, 12:32

Sequitorian wrote: ↑18 Aug 2018, 12:18 The Blue Horizon?

Yeah thats what i was looking for, fantastic place, thanks

It wasn't only for boxing. That came later in it's life time. I think it recently got torn down for new construction. I was there many times. Great place.

Right about the history ... but it's still there ... unchanged ... and in primo condition ... even though it closed it's doors in 2010 ... even the ring is still there and in perfect shape ... (so I hear) ... though there are plans to put up a parking lot ...

... (don't it always seem to go ... that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone) ... ...

dagilechia wrote: ↑18 Aug 2018, 12:32

Sequitorian wrote: ↑18 Aug 2018, 12:18 The Blue Horizon?

Yeah thats what i was looking for, fantastic place, thanks

Korakuen Hall is pretty much just used for combat sports and wrestling it seems

Hyun Mi Choi vs Diana Ayala took place in a cave, Gwangmyeong Cave, in Korea

Boxing Prospect wrote: ↑19 Aug 2018, 04:54

dagilechia wrote: ↑18 Aug 2018, 12:32

Sequitorian wrote: ↑18 Aug 2018, 12:18 The Blue Horizon?

Yeah thats what i was looking for, fantastic place, thanks

Korakuen Hall is pretty much just used for combat sports and wrestling it seems

Yeah i know this place i think its used for sumo as well. Very nice place, i really like to visit sports arenas and its one of the arenas id like to visit. I did some research and there are some boxing/combat sports arenas that i knew about but totally forgot about them. Like York Hall. Or even in my country Poland there is Hala Gwardii that seen a lot of olympic medalists, i totally forgot about it, its a market hall but part of it was for boxing only and belonged to boxing club Gwardia Warszawa where trained and learned boxing a lot of olympic medalists including 2x olympic golden medalist Jerzy Kulej. Its not used for boxing anymore but there is museum of Polish boxing and of trainer Feliks Stamm, trainer of Polish golden era olympic fighters

Probably a more well known one but still looks kinda cool. The 'Battle on the boat' series in Tacoma, WA is named as such because it was originally held at the Emerald Queen Casino on a paddlewheel riverboat. It has since moved to land though.



Also, great thread.

Not a boxing professional match but i think this story belongs to this topic:

Tadeusz "Teddy" Pietrzykowski was a Polish amateur boxer (Polish silver medalist and champion of Warsaw in bantamweight) and soldier. He was also a prisoner at Auschwitz-Birkenau and Neuengamme camps. Captured by Germans he participated in boxing matches held in concentration camps. For the first time he fought march 1941 at KL Auschwitz-Birkenau against German middleweight pro champion Walter Duening (The German refused to continue when he realised that he was losing the fight widely outpointed by Polish prisoner). At Auschwitz-Birkenau he fought, according to different sources, 40-60 times. Except of Duening he defeated, among others, Netherlands' welterweight champion Leu Sanders. Since 1943 he was at KL Neuengamme. There he fought around 20 times, fought a German boxer Schally Hottenbach among others. He received same food rations as other prisoners, his weight was ~45kg at the time. Parts of Pietrzykowski's life served as the basis for a story written by Jozef Hen (Bokser i śmierć) and a film by Peter Solan (Boxer a smrť). Liberated by British soldiers in 1945, he joined 1st Polish Armoured Division. He was born 1917, died 1991.

The reward for defeating the Kapo Duening was a cube of margarine and half a loaf of bread. "Teddy" was known for his granite chin, despite the big difference in weight (45kg vs 70kg) "Teddy" rocked some few times the German kapo & boxer.

Sequitorian wrote: ↑18 Aug 2018, 12:18

dagilechia wrote: ↑18 Aug 2018, 11:39 I wonder if there is/was any "Boxing Arena"? You know, arena specifically for boxing only.

The Blue Horizon?

Isn't York Hall just for boxing too.