Largest Boxing Audience Ever Was 135,132 at Zale vs Pryor, 1941

[MisterHardtop]

They're not gone. First of all there are still boxers capable of pulling those numbers. Secondly we can't really know because the casinos have all these fights on lock down. Mayweather-Cotto and Mayweather-Canelo could have made great stadium events, but of course the casinos get it all. I'd also like to think Mayweather vs Pac could have smashed the US record in any stadium but in reality it likely would have been bought by the casinos too.

You are repeating what I've just said, the reason for far smaller gates in the modern sport is that Vegas has a virtual monopoly on super fights. Isn't that what I said? I never once mentioned there aren't fighters OR fights that won't gather huge crowds, of course they will. Put Pacquiao or Cotto or Mayweather or Martinez or Marquez or Alvarez in stadiums and they will bring the numbers. The problem is, as you've mentioned and as I did in my original post, Vegas does not have those stadiums yet it houses the major fights....hence those days ARE gone.

Unless we have more promoters shunning the bright lights and supposed big bucks that can "only" be found in Vegas, as Arum did with Pacquiao and as the Klitschko's promoters have done in Europe, we will not have the type of crowds seen pre-1980.

[Salardo]

Dempsey-Tunney II: around 145.000 viewers

http://homepage.eircom.net/~westwaterford/dbarry.htm

[FlatLine]

Dempsey-Tunney II: around 145.000 viewers
http://homepage.eircom.net/~westwaterford/dbarry.htm

That was just an estimate, the official figure was 120,557 which is still a very substantial amount of people

http://www.boxing-articles.com/dempsey-vs-tunney-boxings-zenith-harry-wills-final-shot-part-2/

[FlatLine]

^ correction, that was Dempsey-Tunney 1, Dempsey-Tunney 2 had less people 104,943

[BattlingNelson]

Honorable mention to

Chris Eubank vs Nigel Benn
October 1993
Manchester, UK
42,000

Joe Calzaghe vs Mikkel Kessler
November 2007
Cardiff, Wales
55,000


Second largest indoor crowd after Spinks-Ali II

[revs1227]

Imagine this - over 70 million americans and well over 100 million worldwide listened to the joe louis schmeling rematch on the radio!

and there was only 120 mill in america at the time

[Sam Donald]

uk have got great fans

[Sweet Pea 50]

Joe Calzaghe vs Mikkel Kessler
November 2007
Cardiff, Wales
55,000


Second largest indoor crowd after Spinks-Ali II

Not quite, vato.

59,995 Whitaker vs. JC Chavez 1993 Alamodome, San Antonio, TX

[saintpat]

Imagine that. Here's some more records. This is live crowd at the events ------

Largest Paying Boxing Attendance
Julio Cesar Chavez vs Greg Haugen
On n Feb-1993 a reported 132, 247 spectators crammed into the Estadio Ezteca, Mexico City, Mexico to witness Julio Cesar Chavez make his tenth defence of his WBC light welterweight title. Haugen was floored in the opening seconds and was pounded through the fight before referee Joe Cortez stopped the fight in round five.

Largest Attendance Boxing, Free Admission
Tony Zale vs Billy Pryor
Juneau Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. 135,132 where in attendance to watch the bout between Zale vs Pryor on Aug-1941. Admission was free and the referee was Jack Dempsey. Tony Zale won a 9 round knockout.

Largest European Boxing Attendance
Max Schmeling vs. Walter Neusel
Aug-1938, Over 102.000 spectators were in attendance at Sandbahn Lokstedt, Hamburg, Germany. there to see Schmeling won with a ninth round KO.

Largest Indoor Boxing Attendance
Muhammad Ali vs Leon Spinks
Sept-1978, Superdome, New Orleans, Louisiana. 63,315 where in attendance to witness Muhammad Ali avenge his split decision loss to Spinks seven months earlier.

Largest U.S. Boxing Attendance
Attendance Bout Year Venue – Location
63,350 Ali vs. Spinks II 1979 Superdome, New Orleans, LA
59,995 Whitaker vs. JC Chavez 1993 Alamodome, San Antonio, TX
50,994 Pacquiao vs. Clottey 2010 Cowboys Stadium, Arlington, TX
45,368 De La Hoya vs Patrick 1998 Astrodome, Houston TX
37,321 Ali vs. Terrell 1967 Astrodome, Houston TX

Evander Holyfield-Vaughn Bean in 1998 in the Georgia Dome drew 41,357

[BattlingNelson]

Not quite, vato.

59,995 Whitaker vs. JC Chavez 1993 Alamodome, San Antonio, TX

Catchweight fights does not count.