USA is the Mecca of Boxing

[Technical_Skill]

For such an aggressive poster, you get on the defensive quite easily.

Just like my idol Pretty Boy Floyd. lol.

[OptimusWolf]

um, yes. Does that answer your question??

You're a complete bore on this USA rules Uk is ****e topic, and I can't quite believe I'm replying on your thread....oh well.

because British people aren't ****** enough to spend £25 ($50) on a ppv.

So you wouldn't spend $50 to watch Kessler-Calzaghe if it was on PPV?

[col Blake]

deep down all Americans really want is to be British anyway

deep down all Americans really want is to be British anyway

Yeah, that's why we revolted...

[Welter_Skelter]

NASCAR is more POPULAR in America than BOXING is...

[col Blake]

what do you me we, where were you, it's a question of not knowing who your betters are,
you never know what you need until you loose it.

[me2007]

US stopped being the mecca of boxing when Ali retired. He travelled all over the globe, partly due to having his license taken away, but he still did it.

In my mind, Cuba is a country which is associated with being the mecca of boxing; it doesn`t revolve around people getting rich. It is about pride, honour and respect for the cubans, not how many diamond chains you have or what size wheels you have on your hummer. A few have defected, but most haven`t like Savon.

People who say the US is the mecca of boxing are just using that as an excuse for the US fighters not to travel so they can be the ones making all the demands.

Boxing is a fringe sport in America. In Cuba, it is a way of life. There is no comparison. In the US it has just become a business and a crooked one at that. It isn`t the purest form of sport anymore.

Mecca my ass.

[BrooklynBomber]

Since we are talking about meccas


Early years
The theatre originated as the Gallo Opera House in 1927, and over the course of the next decade changed its name several times. It became known as the New Yorker Theatre in 1930, the Casino de Paris in 1933, the Palladium Theatre in 1936 and the Federal Music Theatre in 1937. Later in 1937, the name was changed back to the New Yorker Theatre. This name would remain until CBS purchased the facility in the 1950s, renaming it Studio 52.

From the 1950s to the mid-1970s, CBS used the location as a radio and TV stage that housed such shows as What's My Line?, The $64,000 Question, Password, To Tell the Truth, Beat the Clock, The Jack Benny Show, I've Got a Secret, Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour, and Captain Kangaroo. The soap opera Love of Life was produced there until 1975.

In 1976, CBS concentrated most of its New York broadcast functions around the corner to its storied Ed Sullivan Theater (CBS-TV Studio 50) or west to the CBS Broadcast Center, and sold Studio 52. The Ed Sullivan Theater once had access to Studio 54 through an access door which was cinder-blocked during the Theater's Letterman Renovation. We workers at studio 54 would like to point out that there is a MTA utility building between us at 54 and the letterman studio. We don't understand how that would be possible as the buildings are not ajacent. [1]. The building was purchased and renamed for its street address, 254 West 54th Street, between Broadway and Eighth Avenue, a location already noted for another tenant in the building, famed disco record label West End Records, as well as being the former home of Scepter Records.

[!!Captain]

Since we are talking about meccas


Early years
The theatre originated as the Gallo Opera House in 1927, and over the course of the next decade changed its name several times. It became known as the New Yorker Theatre in 1930, the Casino de Paris in 1933, the Palladium Theatre in 1936 and the Federal Music Theatre in 1937. Later in 1937, the name was changed back to the New Yorker Theatre. This name would remain until CBS purchased the facility in the 1950s, renaming it Studio 52.

From the 1950s to the mid-1970s, CBS used the location as a radio and TV stage that housed such shows as What's My Line?, The $64,000 Question, Password, To Tell the Truth, Beat the Clock, The Jack Benny Show, I've Got a Secret, Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour, and Captain Kangaroo. The soap opera Love of Life was produced there until 1975.

In 1976, CBS concentrated most of its New York broadcast functions around the corner to its storied Ed Sullivan Theater (CBS-TV Studio 50) or west to the CBS Broadcast Center, and sold Studio 52. The Ed Sullivan Theater once had access to Studio 54 through an access door which was cinder-blocked during the Theater's Letterman Renovation. We workers at studio 54 would like to point out that there is a MTA utility building between us at 54 and the letterman studio. We don't understand how that would be possible as the buildings are not ajacent. [1]. The building was purchased and renamed for its street address, 254 West 54th Street, between Broadway and Eighth Avenue, a location already noted for another tenant in the building, famed disco record label West End Records, as well as being the former home of Scepter Records.

Since we're talking about Ed Sullivan Theater

The facility was designed by architect Herbert J. Krapp[1]. It was built by Arthur Hammerstein between 1925 and 1927[1], and was named Hammerstein's Theater after his father, Oscar Hammerstein I. It later went by the name Manhattan Theater, Billy Rose's Music Hall, and the Manhattan once again. In the 1930s, it became a popular nightclub; after CBS obtained a long-term lease on the property, the network began broadcasting from there in 1936. It had various names during the network's tenancy, including Radio Theater #3 and the CBS Radio Playhouse. It was converted for television in 1950, when it became CBS-TV Studio 50.

The theater was renamed for Sullivan at the beginning of the 1967-68 season, though it is still TV Studio 50 in CBS's numerical list of New York television facilities, according to both the network and the actors' monthly Ross Reports. Sullivan, who started hosting his variety show from the Maxine Elliott Theatre (CBS Studio 51) on 39th Street in 1948, moved to Studio 50 a few years later.

In the 1960s, Studio 50 was one of CBS's busiest stages -- not only for Sullivan's program but also for several quiz shows. What's My Line?, To Tell the Truth and Password called the studio home after CBS began broadcasting regularly in color. (They had usually been taped around the corner at CBS-TV Studio 52, which is now the disco-theatre Studio 54). Line and Truth remained at Studio 50 even after they moved from CBS to first-run syndication in the late 1960s and early 70s. The programs eventually moved to NBC's Radio City Studios at Rockefeller Center.

Probably because both were CBS stages in the 1950s and 60s, Studio 50 once had access to Studio 52 (the current Studio 54 Building) through an access door which was cinder-blocked during the Ed Sullivan Theater's Letterman renovation.

The Ed Sullivan Theater was also the first home for The $10,000 Pyramid, with its huge end-game board at the rear of the set, in 1973. Other short-lived game shows produced at the Ed included Musical Chairs with singer Adam Wade (1975), Shoot For The Stars with Geoff Edwards (1977) (which was an NBC show), and Pass the Buck with Bill Cullen (1978).

During its tenure as a Reeves Entertainment teletape facility, it hosted the sitcom Kate & Allie.