The Blaine County Journal News-Opinion - We've Got The County Covered

This aerial photo shows the 40,000-seat wooden stadium built in Shelby for the July 4, 1923 boxing match between Jack Dempsey and Tommy Gibbons. Promoters in Shelby, as a publicity stunt, offered a payment to Dempsey of $300,000 if he would come to fight in Shelby. For a variety of reasons turnout for the fight waned and many people, except Dempsey, lost money. The wooden stadium was repossessed, torn down and the wood sold.