Boxing was HUGE in the good old days

The 60s had rock festivals, Woodstock.
The 20s had boxing matches, Jack Dempsey fights.
That's what I call a cultural impact.

This is a picture of the crowds outside the NY Times Offices, Times Square, where they were following the up-to-date bulletin reports of the fight :

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always strikes me how uniform the fashions used to be.

 

A lot of today's boxing fans do not realize the impact Jack Dempsey had on society in his heyday.Not for nothing was he such an astounding drawing card,who was considered a force of nature. And the greatest offensive fighter of all-time to boot. Fast as a welterweight
and tough as leather,Dempsey,after struggling all his youth in Western honky -tonk towns,
discovered wine, women and Hollywood. Who can really blame him ? Fighters those days
didn't fight for posterity or a legacy. With no supporting networks as today,Dempsey and
our ancestors fought for survival...But in his heyday,he was ,well, Jack Dempsey !

 

That had a lot more to due with Carpentier than Dempsey. Carpentier would literally get mobbed by thousands of people in Paris just crossing the street in Paris as early as 1912, before Dempsey ever started boxing. Thats not an exaggeration.

 

It really is something the impact he had - those scenes make one think of world events, diasaters, wars.

Nope, it's just Jack Dempsey.

 

Very individual thinking in regards to attire in the olden times.

 

Dempsey was tremendous and that was before cable, T.V. Media impact, just plain old newspapers and word of mouth...Jack Dempsey was the greatest up until that point he was Tyson before Tyson and he was the 1st modern champ....He brought boxing into the future

 

For a "Historian Supreme" thats a completely uneducated ascertion.

 

It's happening every other weekend, when tons of boxing fans watch their fights via the Internet. They're just not gathered at a square anymore. Also, no hats.

Chavez pulled ~130k people when he fought Haugen if I'm not mistaken.

 

I wish we could still have big open air outdoor fights. seems like a fun atmosphere

 

would have been perfect for haye klitschko.

 

It's not the same at all.
The internet allows scattered groups of people to follow all sorts of obscure and low-profile events.

The man on the street in America (and probably the man on the street in most countries outside of Ukraine and Germany) would struggle to name the heavyweight boxing champion today.

He sure did.
In Mexico I believe.

 

On the flipside, the Klitschko's and other boxers are huge stars in Germany and most of Eastern Europe. Pacquiao in the Philippines. Previously, boxing was predominantly American, now it's becoming global.

And Vitali had no trouble filling a 70k stadium fighting a clown like Sosnowski.

As much as I'd like to yearn back to ye olden day, we shouldn't forget that those people are gathered there because they had to. They didn't have our luxury of watching these fights at home on the couch with a beer, and re-view them in HD at any time we like.