CARSON CITY, Nev. (KOLO) – The corner of Musser Street and Pratt Avenue in Carson City doesn’t look like a place where sports history would be made. But in 1897, a highly anticipated heavyweight championship fight was relocated — and Nevada’s state capital suddenly found itself hosting a moment that would ripple through boxing and beyond.
Boxing promoter and historian Tommy Lane said the Corbett–Fitzsimmons bout wasn’t originally supposed to happen in Nevada.
“Actually this fight, Fitzsimmons–Corbett, was originally scheduled for Dallas,” Lane said…