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January 2, 2012 by jaywaltergunn
BoxingTickets Collection Review - 2011
Happy New Year. Over the past dozen months, the collection archived here at BoxingTickets.com received many significant and interesting new items, including oddities displaying the American fascination with the squared circle from earlier eras, ranging from an admission ticket for Jolly’s Private Physical Culture Club in Malcomb, Illinois around the turn of the 20th century (#2715), and the Jeffries-Sharkey vaudeville show touring in the 1920’s (#3080), to those displaying the respect attributed to the world sport in more recent years, evident in a formal invitation to a reception for Lennox Lewis in the British House of Commons in 1997 (#3143). The early era of boxing remains a particular focus for acquisitions, with a number of new pieces coming from San Francisco area events at the Dreamland Rink and other venues from before the First World War (# 2997 - 3002 / 3063 - 3070), while others are remnants of pugilism past from the East Coast, like the “pass-out” chits from New York area athletic clubs from before 1900 like the Lenox (#3057 - 3062) and the Eureka (#2785 & 2895). Many fine boxers from the century plus since are represented among other newly posted pieces, notably, the battling Brit Joe Bugner, with a ducat from his famous bout with Ali in Malaysia, bearing the probable signatures of both Bugner and his long time trainer Andy Smith (#3221), and 3 more from the Royal Albert Hall (#2864 - 2866) going up. An array of individual credentials and passes from more recent contests, such as a number from the veteran New York columnist and reporter Vic Ziegel (such as Hagler-Hearns at Ceasar’s in Las Vegas #3127) or the passes for Detroit News reporter Jerry Green for the Hearns-Duran contest a year earlier (#3216), bring a particularly colorful narrative thread to the history now on view at the site.
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