Australia's Greatest Sports Promoter Part Two - Sports Bizarre
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What is the membership offer and introduction for Sports Bizarre?
Hello everyone, Titus O'Reilly here. Before we get started with today's episode, a reminder, you can become a member of Bizarre Plus. You will get access to all our bonus episodes. There's over a hundred up there at the moment with some great topics, some funny stories that we've done. You get one every week of those. Uh, we also have a bunch of other stuff, such as a chatroom that you can join and talk to us, all those sort of things. So we'd love you to become a member of Bizarre Plus. The link is in the show notes if you want to join. It's sports bizarre. We're gonna go full weird and bizarre in a way you will not see comfort. The gloves are off.
The hunt for the
weirdest.
Well hang on a second. This is so bonus. You can't be doing strangers. This is nuts. Yeah, this is borderline psychotic. It's only gonna just increase on the shots. Most unbelievable. This guy's the greatest villain of all time. There's a lot going on.
Stories to ever occur. I'm learning a lot today. Hold on to your ads, because we're just getting started. In the world of sport.
That's the worst script I've ever heard. Well, it's not over. Oh, hello. I've gone too early.
Sports Bizarre. Tells a member of the media to suck it and keep on sucking it. Rube had joined a local circus and was learning the art of swallowing live snails. Threw the ball down, mounted his horse and rode away and never played again.
Who are the hosts and what is the focus of this episode?
It's time
for the leaders of the heart. Get the whiteboard out, or I'll refuse to go any further. It's Titus O'Reilly and Mick Malloy. Hello everyone, and welcome to the latest episode of Sports Bazaar with me, Mick Malloy, and of course Titus O'Reilly. We're knee-deep into another retrospective on how would you call it? What a promoter? Well he's a promoter.
I would argue Q D. McIntosh, he would be arguably with John Wren, our two greatest ever sports promoters. And where we left off, he'd remember captured the great white fleet, the American fleet had come to Australia. Yes. He'd put on a boxing match. Uh he owned all the venues. He he got all the Bill Squires and Tommy Burns were the two fighters he put together. Tommy Burns being the world champion, Bill Squires being the Australian champion. He'd put that together, he'd built the huge outdoor arena and rush cutters bay there. Yeah, had made him an absolute fortune. So where we left off, he was a temporary stadium. Temporary stadium that was becoming less temporary because he was making a lot of money out of it.
Because it makes sense. And so the success of that fight had made him realize there's a big audience in Australia for a fight. I can make a lot of money. I have the stadium that I got built overnight, pretty much, or in a few weeks. I need to put on another one, but I need it to be as big as possible. He I mean, this is where his flair for being a promoter comes to the fore. He's an entrepreneur. He's a total entrepreneur. And it's
it comes down to the size of your kahunies. I've always said this with entrepreneurs. You've got to admire them. Yeah. Because they You gotta risk it all and they keep doubling down. They try. They're one disaster away from being absolutely
Always. Yeah, yeah, that's right. It's and they're risking their own money, these guys as well. And like, you know, it's not a shareholder's money or something. These are the guys that it was their own money. They were going to be broke. So he realizes, look, I've got Tommy Burns, the world heavyweight champion. I've got a relationship with him. He likes me. I've put on a a very successful life for him. He got paid. He won.
Who can I get to? Who can I get
to fight him and I need it to be bigger? And he got to the point where he landed on at the end of last week where we left it. There's the African American boxer Jack Johnson. And this is a revolutionary idea. Because in the main there is a colour barrier in boxing where we're in nineteen oh eight. it was very unlikely. And I thought we'd start off by talking about And wouldn't happen in America. It almost would never happen in America. The only time white and black boxers fought in America was usually if you're an up and coming white boxer, you might take a fight against a black boxer.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the membership offer and introduction for Sports Bizarre?
0:00–1:22
2
Who are the hosts and what is the focus of this episode?
1:22–4:41
3
How did Hugh D. Macintosh build his stadium and become a top promoter?
4:41–14:46
4
How did Macintosh negotiate the historic Burns vs. Johnson heavyweight fight?
14:46–15:04
5
What were the key events in Jack Johnson’s early life and boxing career?
15:04–48:51
Speakers
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