ESPRESSO T.V.

The Big Fight

1 x 52'

Delivery scheduled for April 2008

A unique documentary on the world’s biggest boxing event which took place on 2nd July 1921 in front of 100,000 spectators.

Thanks to recently restored and never-seen before archival footage of this historical event and powerful interviews to be shot in the United States, the United Kingdom and France, The Big Fight will explain why this championship between Dempsey and Carpentier was instrumental in bringing boxing to new audiences.

The fight grossed $1,789,238 at the gates- or about 100 million of today’s dollars.

It took 2 months, 600 carpenters and 400 workers to build a boxing arena that could fit 100,000 spectators.

The fight was the first sporting event ever to be broadcast in the history of radio.

Over seven hundred journalists covered the event, sitting side by side with America’s most famous cinema stars, politicians, wealthy, industrialists, rail barons and oil men who made the trip to Jersey City.