I am a big fan of fighting sports, primarily UFC and boxing and really look forward to the Sunday morning UFC sessions at my local pub (it's morning for us because the events are evening in USA.)
I can imagine it was pretty special back in 1933 when fight fans, or even people were unfamiliar with what boxing actually is, got to see the first ever broadcast. Of course very few people owned a television set in 1933 so perhaps not so many got to see it afterall.
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The match was between Archie Sexton and Lauri Raiteri and for me these names mean nothing. The match was a 6-round exhibition match and it took place in London.
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I did find out that Sexton lost sight in his left eye during a later match in 1936 and this forced him to retire. In an ironic twist of fate he was later awarded a medal for rescuing people from an eye hospital later in life.
If you could go back in time and tell BBC (the people who did the first broadcast) that later in time that individual broadcasts of top-tier boxing matches would be worth tens of millions of dollars each, I'm certain they wouldn't believe ya!