World Title Bouts In The Most Low-Key Venues Ever

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  1. Italian Stallion

    Italian Stallion Active Member Full Member

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    The least known, probably ones many never heard of, yet these venues/places still had the distinction of hosting a world title fight. Which ones spring to mind?
     
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    sweetsci Well-Known Member Full Member

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    The Central Maine Civic Center, a small junior hockey league arena, for Ali-Liston II.
    Watres Armory, Scranton, PA, for Holmes-Rodriguez.
    Various casino ballrooms, in recent years.
    In the 1800's, clearings in the woods, when boxing was illegal and bouts had to be fought in secret.
     
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  3. TBooze

    TBooze Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Easy, the Granada TV studios Manchester (Michael/Daho IBF Super Feather title)
     
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  4. Italian Stallion

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    Would Dunkin Donuts Center Providence suffice?
     
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  5. escudo

    escudo Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Don't you disparage the Dunk like that.
     
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  7. Boxing Prospect

    Boxing Prospect Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Portopia Hotel
    It held Teiru Kinoshita Vs Zolani Tete, and Kinoshita actually worked in the hotel!
     
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    RockyJim Boxing Addict Full Member

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    The Central Maine Youth Center in Lewiston Maine....(seating 3,600) ...for the second "fight" between Ali & Sonny Liston
     
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  9. dinovelvet

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    Furys fight with Klitschko was fought and won in a sauna
     
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  10. KidGalahad

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    brilliant!
    who could ever forget the legendary one-on-one "showdowna in the sauna".
    nothing compares to this mother of all battles, which was clearly won by fury and no contest at all.
    their second fight was just an unsignificant kindergarten, compared to the first one. :number_one:
     
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  11. scartissue

    scartissue Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I remember Roberto Duran's title defense against Lou Bizzarro being in what they called the Erie, Pa. Fieldhouse. I thought at the time, "A fieldhouse?!". I don't know how many attended but I looked up the facility and it was setup for about 3,500 seats but it says it could hold about 5,200 or something like that. Maybe SRO, I don't know. It just sounded like a small facility when I first watched the fight live.
     
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  12. McGrain

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    The world title fight between Jack McAuliffe and Jem Carney (one of the great ye Olde title fights) was fought in a barn, with three ropes and the wall of the barn forming the ring, in front of about 30 people.
     
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  13. TBooze

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    Cribb/MolineauxI was fought literally at the end of my parents road.
     
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  14. escudo

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    Surrey if memory serves.
     
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    Julian Jackson vs. Herol Graham took place in a Spanish hotel/resort after Jackson couldn't get sanctioned to fight in Britain.
     
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