Flex Your Researching Muscle

Ric · Post by **Ric** » 03 Jan 2007, 16:32

BoxRec.com offers researchers and the casual visitor a lot of information and tools these days. Here's a test, to see who "has the hang" of these tools. Tell me: What was the final fight held at Los Angeles's Olympic Auditorium?

And tell me how you found the answer. (If you happened to have known the answer off the top of your head, please do not answer. I want someone to use the BoxRec research tools to find the answer.)

JCS · Post by **JCS** » 03 Jan 2007, 17:01

6/10/05

From the front page, select 'State', choose California as your state, then search backwards from '07.

Kind of a pain in the ass to use to find a particular venue but whatever.

Ric · Post by **Ric** » 03 Jan 2007, 17:02

JCS83MD wrote:6/10/05

From the front page, select 'State', choose California as your state, then search backwards from '07.

Kind of a pain in the ass to use to find a particular venue but whatever.

There's a quicker way to find it. Should take only one or two minutes at the most to locate the answer.

JAHamilton77 · Post by **JAHamilton77** » 03 Jan 2007, 17:03

Final boxing show was held June 10, 2005, with Vernie Torres winning an 8 round technical decision over Salvador Casillas.

I found it by
1. Going to Encyclopedia
2. once there I went to Categories A-Z
3. Found Los Angles Venues
4. Went to Olympic Stadium
5. Read this in the trivia at the bottom

Like you said I did it in about 2 minutes

BoxBuzz · Post by **BoxBuzz** » 03 Jan 2007, 18:00

I used my superior brain power to simply read this thread down to it's last entry and I had the answer in seconds.

Ric · Post by **Ric** » 03 Jan 2007, 18:00

JAHamilton77 wrote:Final boxing show was held June 10, 2005, with Vernie Torres winning an 8 round technical decision over Salvador Casillas.

I found it by
1. Going to Encyclopedia
2. once there I went to Categories A-Z
3. Found Los Angles Venues
4. Went to Olympic Stadium
5. Read this in the trivia at the bottom

Like you said I did it in about 2 minutes

Nicely done.

Another way would have been to type in "Olympic Auditorium" in the Wiki Encyclopedia search box, and go through the search results given. Of course, this assumes the answer was provided by some Editor in the Wiki. If not, then JC's suggestion, although laborious, would probably have to be the way to go.

JAHamilton77 · Post by **JAHamilton77** » 03 Jan 2007, 19:17

Is this a round-a-bout way of promoting the Encyclopedia feature of BoxRec?

Ric · Post by **Ric** » 03 Jan 2007, 19:40

JAHamilton77 wrote:Is this a round-a-bout way of promoting the Encyclopedia feature of BoxRec?

It's a way to remind folks of the great research tool the Wiki is, particularly if you use the search feature. More and more is being added every day.

More on that search feature here:
http://www.boxrec.com/media/index.php/B ... :Searching

Jaclem · Post by **Jaclem** » 04 Jan 2007, 03:41

..once again the buzzmeister plagarizes me before i even post my response....i was gong to say the quickest way..blahblah blah would be to check out hamilton.....but no-o--o-...

JCS · Post by **JCS** » 04 Jan 2007, 10:09

Ric wrote:
JCS83MD wrote:6/10/05

From the front page, select 'State', choose California as your state, then search backwards from '07.

Kind of a pain in the ass to use to find a particular venue but whatever.
There's a quicker way to find it. Should take only one or two minutes at the most to locate the answer.

Only took about 30 seconds.. but it woulda been much more if it were in like.. 1950 :)