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Boxing Venues of British Boxing
Looking into the history of different locations of the National Sporting club which was located in different venues after it's original location which is this at 43 King Street, Covent Garden, London
National Sporting Club 1
Covent Garden, London
43 King Street
England
Historical
Site Rating 4
Seating Capacity 1300
From Wikipedia, the National Sporting Club was founded on March 5th, 1891 and was located at 43 King Street, Covent Garden, London. It's attendence could number about 1300 members and guests. It was during this time in 1909 when the club's president introduced the Lonsdale Belt as awarded to the British Champion at each weight division.
In the 1920's boxing was growing into a sport of mass appeal to the more general public and larger venues were sought to make more money than at the N.S.C. This forced the club to open it's doors to the general public in October 1928 where before it was a privat club operation. In 1929 it closedd it's doors at the Covent Garden and for a while moved to The Stadium Club, Holborn but then finally moved to 21 Soho Square.
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