The Fights
Network pool
Network pool · 1927–1954
Broadcasts
3
Cadence
Seasonal
Rated
PG
Since
1927
The run
- Network
- Network pool
- Years active
- 1927–1954
- Surviving broadcasts
- 3
- Genre
- news
The handful of surviving ringside radio airchecks of championship prizefighting, including Joe Louis against Jack Sharkey from KHJ in August 1936 and the Dempsey–Tunney fight. Very little live boxing coverage from the era was recorded off the air, so this is a short shelf rather than a full run. Public-domain transfers from the Internet Archive.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
2 dated broadcasts across 100 years on the air, with 99 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 2026, in original transmission order.
- 1. The Long Silence · 21 Jul 2026
- 2. A Room Above the Street · 28 Jul 2026
- 3. Signal at Midnight · 4 Aug 2026
- 01
Signal at Midnight
4 Aug 2026 · 53 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
- 02
A Room Above the Street
28 Jul 2026 · 16 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
- 03
The Long Silence
21 Jul 2026 · 31 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
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