This Friday is one of the most anticipated days on the 2024 sports calendar as Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles is the site for Game 1 of this year’s World Series between the American League Champion New York Yankees and National League Champion Los Angeles Dodgers. While this year’s Fall Classic will be the first head-to-head meeting between in this phase of the playoffs since a strike-affected season in 1981, not everyone will be watching baseball.
While the West Coast is preoccupied with action on the diamond on Friday and Saturday nights, another hard-hitting sport takes center stage back east: Boxing.