The Legendary Blue Horizon

[The_budweiser]

remember going to a fight at the Legendary Blue Horizon with my dad about five or six years ago and thinking that I wanted to work there. In September of 2009, I went to the Blue and asked for an internship. I knew it was going to be a long shot but I got what I wanted.

 

Boxing veterans remember fights at the Blue Horizon from the 1960s, 70s, 80s and 90s. From what I have heard and read, there were some great times, but I never experienced those times. I experienced the Blue Horizon in a different way.

 

I “got my feet wet” in that building and it was amazing. I loved being a part of the only true fight venue left in Philadelphia. The balcony seats practically hung over the ring. I would have traded sitting inside the ringside rails at the Legendary Blue Horizon for the first couple rows of balcony seats on the north and south sides.

 

The first time I worked a fight it was not a Blue Horizon promotion—it was a Peltz Boxing promotion. I remember being on the north balcony helping people find their seats and just stopping for a moment to take everything in. Ever since I was a kid I knew boxing was my passion. I knew I could never fight because it was against my father’s wishes, so I found another angle to get involved.

 

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