Tex Rickard (Part I) - a podcast by BTR Boxing Podcast

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It was January 2nd, 1870, when one of the earliest, if not first, of the legendary boxing promoters was born, in Kansas City, Missouri, with the name George Lewis Rickard. Not only was Rickard a boxing promoter, but he was also the founder of the New York Rangers of the NHL, and builder of the third incarnation of Madison Square Garden. Tex Rickard could be described as the first managerial figure to truly recognise the potential of sports as a commercial spectacle.
In the first of a two-part story, we present the early beginning of Rickard and how his time as a sheriff and a miner up in Alaska would take him on a journey to promoting some of the sport's biggest bouts in the first decade of the 20th century.Subscribe
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