A Fixed Prize Fight: Broadway Is My Beat (March 27, 1949)

“A Fixed Prize Fight” is an episode of Broadway Is My Beat, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 27, 1949. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Detective Danny Clover visits Stilman's gymnasium and watches young welterweight fighter Barry Rogan prepare for an important bout at Madison Square Garden on Friday night. When Clover later learns that the syndicate and a mysterious businessman called Big Sig are in town, he begins to suspect something sinister may be connected to Rogan's upcoming fight.

New York City, primarily around Times Square, a boxing gymnasium, and various locations where Detective Clover makes inquiries

Characters: Detective Danny Clover, Barry Rogan, Jack Jackson, Louise Lindsay, Tony Florida, Big Sig

Listen for: The detective's growing concern about Barry Rogan's involvement with Louise Lindsay and the revelation that the syndicate has interest in Friday's fight

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.