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April 11, 1921: The First Lightweight Boxing Match Wireless Broadcast



April 11, 1921: The first lightweight boxing match on radio between Johnny Ray and Johnny Dundee was broadcasted live on this day through KDKA, Pittsburgh with sport writer Florent Gibson as announcer.

That was a Radio station KDKA, Pittsburgh completed broadcast of a sport event that happened on April 11, 1921. Florent Gibson, Pittsburgh Post sports editor, presented commentary along ten rounds the fight live on the air from the ringside of Pittsburgh's Motor City Square. Although there was no winner of that match, listeners around Pittsburgh, for the first time, enjoyed the wireless broadcast from their radio receiver.

See also: Boxing Matches on Old Radio Cat
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  1. AnonymousNovember 20, 2014 at 7:49 PM

    this happened on my birthday and I find it very unique that something like this would happen in the years to come of my birthday.

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  2. UnknownJanuary 18, 2019 at 12:53 PM

    Sorry but my grandfather,Frankie Burns fought Packy Ogatty in the first radio broadcast fight.

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  3. UnknownJanuary 18, 2019 at 12:53 PM

    Sorry but my grandfather,Frankie Burns fought Packy Ogatty in the first radio broadcast fight.

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  4. AnonymousApril 22, 2019 at 8:10 AM

    No he didnt. The first boxing match ever broadcast live via radio was three months earlier in Pittsburgh.

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  5. UnknownApril 15, 2020 at 4:54 PM

    Yep, it happened on my birthday, April 11th, as well!

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  6. AnonymousFebruary 26, 2023 at 11:36 PM

    Harry Greb also fought that night on the undercard of the first radio boxing broadcast and won.

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