Rare fights you know are filmed and were once public.

Makes sense ... thank you Adam.

 

Josh Cobb's titanic tilt against Tim Harris in 2006

 

Were exclamations of wonder common for viewers of these fight reenactments? The newspaper article makes it seem like an actual fight.

https://www.newspapers.com/article/vancouver-daily-world-john-ls-movie-nig/1539829/

Sullivan went as far as to call it the greatest scientific display he’d ever seen.

 

There can be no doubt the images shown are from a recreation. The fight is played out on a set with visible props and dozens of place people for an audience.