Talk:Eric Boon

First boxing match in cinemas

In a published article Boxing returns to U.S. movie theatres it states that the Boon vs Danaher was the first boxing match shown publicly in cinemas. Do they mean that these were the first fights shown live? As boxing matches were shown regularly in cinemas as early as the first decade of the 1900s. To quote "In 1914 the place that most people saw the big fights was on the cinema screen..." (Occupation Prizefighter: The Freddie Welsh Story; Andrew Gallimore).

The cinema royalties were big business and were part of the boxers big night payout in Championship matches. Check out Utube, there are hundreds of pre-WWI videos of these great fighters. The article at filmjournal has either got its facts wrong or needs to clarify what it actually means to say. FruitMonkey (talk) 16:14, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

I'm reading and re-reading the article, and presume they mean 'live' match, but the article does not qualify that. It's a great fact, and was probably shown in theatres right to the arena in Harringay. It just needs a better source. FruitMonkey (talk) 16:28, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Hmm, a strange one. http://www.nipperpatdaly.co.uk/arthurdanahar.html implies that it was the first televised match, so presumably it was shown live on television rather than cinema. I guess there was early television pre-war in Britain, it's just that hardly anybody had it, so I guess that could be possible? Bob talk 23:11, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

Yes! That's precisely what happened according to [1]. How interesting. Bob talk 23:21, 16 April 2011 (UTC)