What was the 1st drive-in theatre to show a telecast of a bout direct from ringside and who were the boxers?
The Rocky Marciano-Jersey Joe Walcott bout was screened at a drive-in theatre in Rutherford, New Jersey, September 23, 1952.
In the United States, it was Joe Louis and Lee Savold at MSG on June 15, 1951. 8 theaters in 6 cities.
I wonder would you ever f**k off. Thats 2 questions in the space of 5 mins ha! Again did you know this already?
Things like that I have been asked before, so I know them. Here's some other interesting things on theater bouts not in the USA. 1st theatre-telecast of a fight the Eric Boon-Arthur Danahar bout, from Harringay Arena, London, England, on February 23, 1939. The Gaumont-British Corporation equipped 3 of its London theatres- the Marble Arch Pavilion, the Monseigneur and the Tatler-with receivibg apparatus and the fight telecast pictures were enlarged onto screens measuring 16 ft. X 12 ft. Also, another one that was in the USA. The 1st theatre-television test of a championship bout in the USA was the Billy Soose-Ken Overlin World Middleweight Championship, held at MSG and screened into the Guild (New Yorker) Theatre on May 9, 1941.
Great piece of info mate:good Would that be the eric 'boy' boon who dave 'boy' green took his nickname from? Tell me this, i remember reading somewhere before that the first fight to be televised was mickey walker and benny leonard and that it was in the CBS studios in new york around 1930/31. Would you have anything on this or could you add to this?
The first TV broadcast of a fight was in 1931. It was an exhibition between Mickey Walker and Benny Leonard and was broadcast by the CBS Studios in New York and appeared as a reddish-orange picture about half the size of a standard business card to the handful of people who had sets in New York.
Believe it or not, the first regularly scheduled series of TV bouts in the US goes all the way back to 1938 from the Ridgwood Grove, St Nicholas Arena, and Jamaica Arena (all in New York). The announcer was Sam Taub. If not for WWII, TV would probably have gone mainstream about 10 years earlier.
