Boxing and Roland Garros, the story goes on

IN IMAGES. With boxing making its big return to Roland-Garros on Friday, we look back at the seven previous fights the venue has staged.
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11 juillet 1931 - Thil vs Dundee boxe à Roland-Garros© Keystone-France/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images

Round 1: Thil vs Dundee, 11 July 1931

Built only two years earlier, the court central provided a fitting setting for this night-time contest in the open air, the first such fight to be held in France.

With the stage set for a typically Parisian spectacle, Parisians converged in their thousands on the Porte-d’Auteuil to see France’s Marcel Thil take on USA’s Vince Dundee.

Thil shook off his underdog status to win a thrilling bout.

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