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Largest Crowd?
Posted: 13 Jun 2002, 22:48
by Justin
Chavez - Haugen had 130,000 spectators
Georges Carpentier - Jack Dempsey had 80,183 spectators
I forget the Exact Schmeling - Louis II attendance, but it rivaled the above attendances...
Didn't Jess Willard - Jack Johnson have a 50 thousand + attendance too? Anyone know the Infamous Dempsey Shelby fight attendance? (I know it was a lot lower than expected by the townspeople, just wondering what it was)... I'll have to look at the old newspapers for the Louis-Schmeling II attendance.
Posted: 13 Jun 2002, 22:59
by saad
I don't know much about the Chavez-Haugen fight. I heard he talked a lot of smack and then took a severe beat down. 130,000!!! That had to have taken place in Mexico City. And they had to have loved seeing Haugen go down.
Posted: 14 Jun 2002, 06:10
by SteveO
The attendance figures you require:
Louis-Schmeling II - 70,043
Willard-Johnson - 17,000
Dempsey-Gibbons - 7,202
Posted: 14 Jun 2002, 10:21
by wouter
The two Dempsey v Tunney matches were seen by more than 100.000 people too I believe, and the Demsey v Firpo fight also had a very large number of spectators.....
By the way, I read a few years back in KO magazine that a Luisito Espinosa title defence in the Philipines drew more than 400.000 people!!!
May have been a typo, may be my lack of memory, 'cause I can't imagine a stadium big enough to hold that many spectators.
Posted: 14 Jun 2002, 11:13
by Justin
Thanks for those records Steve O, appreciate it...
Ali,Foreman, Frazier and the welters of the 80's attacted a lot of fans though, but since there hasn't been any huge gates.
I think the reason we don't see huge attendances like that since the '50's is because back in the day you could only see the fight by actually being there, or listening to it on the radio... Plus we have the introduction of several other sports since the '20's, when Boxing was THE sport.
Posted: 14 Jun 2002, 19:30
by Justin
Dempsey-Firpo had 82,000 Spectators
Posted: 12 Jul 2002, 10:41
by Guest
largest attendence since Tunney-Dempsey 2 was John Tate vs Gerrie Coetzee in 1979-80 ish
Posted: 12 Jul 2002, 15:43
by SteveO
81,000 attended the Tate-Coetzee contest on 20th October 1979.
Posted: 08 Sep 2002, 14:40
by $ bill
How about August 16, 1941 - Tony Zale vs Billy Prior at Juneau Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Attendance 135,132. Would that qualify?
Posted: 10 Sep 2002, 17:16
by SonnyRollins
$ bill wrote:How about August 16, 1941 - Tony Zale vs Billy Prior at Juneau Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Attendance 135,132. Would that qualify?
That's THE record as far as I know.
However, it should be noted that admission was free that day.
Posted: 21 Oct 2002, 13:26
by Friedie
1934 in Hamburg: 95.000 saw Schmeling t.K.o.9 Neusel
(biggest European Attendance so far)
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Posted: 22 Oct 2002, 19:19
by Ricardo
Whitaker Vs. Chavez - 60'000
Spinks Vs. Ali II - 60'000
Posted: 15 Nov 2002, 10:27
by bennie
Boxings three largest crowds...
1. Tony Zale vs Billy Pryor 135,132
2. Julio Cesar Chavez vs Greg Haugen 132,274
3. Gene Tunney vs Jack Dempsey 120,757