Two years to the day after James Corbett beat John L Sullivan for the heavyweight championship of the world with gloves, that the earliest successful motion pictures of a boxing match were filmed. Attempts had been before but the conditions had been unfavourable.

It was a six round exhibition between Corbett and Peter Courtney (his career before and after the even was rather....non-eventful.)

Corbett was asked to carry Courtney until the sixth and then knock him out. That is exactly what he did.

Cool. Now more than a hundred years later, we can watch boxing matches in high definition.

thanks for the response. i thought more people in this forum would have an interest.

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great video

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Thank you.