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Trivia Quiz: Championship Venues
Posted: 10 Jan 2004, 17:38
by Ric
Quiz: Which former World Champions lost their crowns in the very same rings (venues) in which they won them?
Posted: 11 Jan 2004, 00:21
by zurdo
Emile Griffith won the Middleweight championship from Dick Tiger and lost it to Nino Bevenuti in an older version of Madison square garden and the lost it again to Benvenuti at The new Madison Square Garden
Posted: 13 Jan 2004, 16:48
by Ric
Thank you, Zurdo.
Well, if no one else has an answer, how about Freddie Steele? He won and lost his middleweight title in Seattle's Civic Stadium.
http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=021553
Posted: 14 Jan 2004, 10:23
by wsbuf
Barney Ross won Welter title from Jimmy McLarin at MSG 5/34, then lost it back to him at MSG 9/34. Then won it back at the Polo Grounds 5/35.
Posted: 14 Jan 2004, 10:28
by wsbuf
Tony Canzoneri also won lightweight title from Lou Ambers at MSG then lost it to him at MSG.
Posted: 14 Jan 2004, 10:47
by Broncano
Daniel Zaragoza won the Vacant WBC Superbantamweight title with a TKO over Carlos Zarate at The Great Western Forum in Inglewood, lost it on the same ring against Paul Banke a couple of years later.
Posted: 15 Jan 2004, 02:20
by crooked nose
I think there have been three MSGs. The latest opened c. 1968. I think we need a New Yorker to give us the real details on that. "Spanner", eh? Is that anything like a monkey wrench?
Posted: 15 Jan 2004, 03:08
by Ric
The second MSG opened in May 1925.
Posted: 15 Jan 2004, 11:35
by Eric the Viking
bollocks wrote:Re: MSG - how many times has this place moved? May put a slight spanner in this thread
No, but it did throw a small wrench into it. ;)