Hinchliffe Stadium hosted competitive boxing matches over the weekend for the first time in 40 years.
The newly renovated stadium has a rich boxing history. It served as a premiere venue for boxing matches from the 1930s to the 1960s, attracting notable names such as Babe Ruth, Sugar Ray Robinson and Rocky Marciano.
Fans were welcomed on Sunday to the historic stadium to check out up-and-coming fighters at an event hosted by
Humble Beginnings, Inc.
Hinchliffe Stadium was
restored and reopened in May. It was built during the Great Depression and hosted Negro League games in the 1930s and 40s.