Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight

"Of all places, why place (#243) here? There's just something disturbing about a guy prowling around the Sheriff's Office with a camera in hand." -- June 2007

911 E. Musser Street

Carson City
39.164540, -119.759960

Original Date Visited: 6/18/07
Revisited: 11/30/22
Signed: No

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Marker 243 sits safely in front of the Carson City Sheriffs Office. This location is somewhat close to the original site of the fight. The bout between Jim Corbett and Bob Fitzsimmons This was a controversial milestone in Nevada's historical vice tendencies!

Exact Description:
On March 17, 1897, at an arena located on this site, Carson City played host to Nevada's first world championship prizefight, a fourteen-round thriller in which the reigning heavyweight titlist, James J. "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, was dethroned by Robert Fitzsimmons. The Nevada Legislature had only recently legalized prizefighting and the match became the object of scathing criticism from the press and pulpit of other states, but fight fans by the thousands came in. Promoter Dan Stuart put on a clean show and demonstrated that boxing need not be brutal or crooked. Other states were soon to liberalize their own prizefight laws and the sport began to assume a degree of respectability it had not enjoyed in the past. In later years, Nevada was to be the scene of several other world championship fights.

Revisit: 2022
Marker 243 may be little, but its representation of Nevada's vice legacy is huge!

The Corbett Fitzsimmons Fight

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- 220 - Fight of the Century Nevada's Fighting History -- LV Review Journal

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