{"id":9708,"date":"2019-03-23T14:47:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T21:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9708"},"modified":"2019-03-24T14:51:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T21:51:00","slug":"55000-hours-of-boxing-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/03\/23\/55000-hours-of-boxing-archives\/","title":{"rendered":"55,000 Hours Of Boxing Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The New York Times<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

For Sale: This Massive, Obsessive and (Probably) Obsolete VHS Boxing Archive<\/span><\/h1>\n

Forty years of boxing matches \u2014 as many as 55,000 individual fights \u2014 have been painstakingly preserved in a video archive. In the age of YouTube and cloud storage, is it worth anything?<\/p>\n

By Alex Vadukul<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"Rock\u2019 Em Sock\u2019 Em Robots.<\/span>Credit<\/span>Vincent Tullo for The New York Times<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

There\u2019s a small apartment on 137th Street in Hamilton Heights that contains one of the most peculiar videotape collections in New York. The dusty VHS archive fills a vast library that contains the analog history of a sport: 8,000 cassettes with recordings of over 55,000 boxing matches that span 40 years.<\/p>\n

It was the life\u2019s work of Bela Szilagyi, a classical pianist and passionate fight enthusiast, who started the collection in 1979 when he taped a featherweight title match on a Quasar videocassette recorder. Mr. Szilagyi died in 2012 at 78 years old and his wife, a soft-spoken piano teacher, became the collection\u2019s archivist.<\/p>\n

On a recent Sunday night, Elizabeth Szilagyi, 76, commenced her ritual in the living room. She poured herself a glass of red wine, put on her reading glasses, and sat in front of her TV with a notepad in hand to record a welterweight fight at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. She ate a salad while taking notes about the match for the information card that gets filed in the archive. The bell rang and the boxers marched toward each other.<\/p>\n

[ click to continue reading at NYT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from The New York Times For Sale: This Massive, Obsessive and (Probably) Obsolete VHS Boxing Archive Forty years of boxing matches \u2014 as many as 55,000 individual fights \u2014 have been painstakingly preserved in a video archive. In the age of YouTube and cloud storage, is it worth anything? By Alex Vadukul Rock\u2019 Em Sock\u2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}