Fairground boxing booth where visitors try to knock out the champion and win five pounds, the first contestants is knocked out but the very eager (and possibly drunk) third man knocks out the champion and overcome with "boxing fever" rushes out punching at everybody and everything he meets. (britishpathe.com)
Watch the official Boxing Fever 1909 trailer in HD below.
A.E. Coleby Director
Boxing Maniac Trailer
United Kingdom 15 August 1909
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