{"id":629479,"date":"2026-06-09T16:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T16:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/629479\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T16:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T16:16:14","slug":"boxing-event-that-sought-to-break-85-year-attendance-record-cancelled-as-new-plan-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/629479\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing event that sought to break 85-year attendance record cancelled as new plan made"},"content":{"rendered":"

The ambitious event headlined by Anthony Olascuaga and Andy Dominguez will no longer go ahead.<\/p>\n

Olascuaga and Dominguez were set to meet in a WBO flyweight title fight, in what was an attempt to try and make history in San Francisco<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The attempt at an historic boxing event has fallen short and won’t take place in San FranciscoCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

Organisers were attempting to break the\u00a0Guinness World Record<\/a>\u00a0for boxing attendance which remains from August 1941, when 135,132 fans flocked to see Tony Zale stop Billy Pryor at Milwaukee’s Juneau Park.<\/p>\n

Ed Pereira’s iVB Promotions and Sampson Lekcowicz’s Sampson Boxing\u00a0were attempting to shatter that record, by making a free to watch event at the San Fransisco Civic Center Plaza.<\/p>\n

But VIP tickets had come on sale surrounding the ring, and it was unclear how the logistics of the event would work.<\/p>\n

And it has been reported by Sports Illustrated’s Chris Mannix that the show, along with the record attempt, is now off<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read More In Boxing<\/p>\n

The San Fransisco Chronicle added that the production company who were staging the July 11 event have withdrawn their support, after being bereft with financial issues.<\/p>\n

The event will no longer go ahead at the venue, with plans called off just a month before.<\/p>\n

But it appears the world title fight involving Olascuaga could go ahead elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Alternative plans are being made to try and stage the event at The Sahara in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

That would of course spell an obvious ending to any history-making plans by organisers.<\/p>\n

What were the plans for the event?<\/p>\n

It was initially believed that unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk<\/a> was in consideration for the event.<\/p>\n

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Olascuaga will be devastated, but may get an alternate opportunity with the event likely to be rescheduledCredit: AFP<\/p>\n

There were intensifying rumours that it could see a clash with Deontay Wilder<\/a> headline the event.<\/p>\n

But they were quickly shut down, and Usyk instead signed for his controversial win over Rico Verhoeven<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n

Olascuaga was instead announced as the headline act, with a full card to feature the likes of \u00a0Vito Mielnicki Jr and Charly Suarez.<\/p>\n

And organisers had hailed how exciting the plans were.<\/p>\n

“This will be a show like the boxing world has never seen before,” said Pereira.<\/p>\n

“An event built for this city and its communities.<\/p>\n

Read More on talkSPORT<\/p>\n

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“San Francisco has always been a city that stands for something special, and on July 11, it will stand at the centre of the boxing world.”<\/p>\n

It is unclear if these plans could be revisited further down the line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ambitious event headlined by Anthony Olascuaga and Andy Dominguez will no longer go ahead. Olascuaga and Dominguez…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,189897,4237,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-629479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-guinness-world-record","tag-san-francisco","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}