World Title Bouts In The Most Low-Key Venues Ever

The Thrilla was actually in a place called Curzon City, wasn't it? Not even in Manila but quite a way out of the main city. Not really befitting the protagonists and the presidential focus it was getting.

And Foreman's world reign began and ended in some real outposts. Kingston, Jamaica seems a strange venue for two champions of the quality of Frazier and Foreman to be duking it out for the undisputed world heavyweight title. And having announced himself in such dramatic fashion, it seems strange that he then went on to fight as big a name as Ken Norton in Caracas.

I think I have missed the OP's point where he was looking at the venue rather than location but, for someone growing up in the 80s and 90s, world title bouts, especially heavyweights, were the domain of Vegas, Atlantic City or New York, particularly if both contestants were American.

 

Barry michael-najib daho....1987..
Bowlers nightclub....windsor.

 

Near by, Copthorne, Sussex.

 

I'd say I made a decent guess for a colonial.

 

Illunga Makabu beating cielsak in a temporary arena in Cameroon looked like they just found an open field and put a ring there