Both cards were taking place in the city that evening. Patterson-Maxim at the Eastern Parkway Arena, in Brooklyn, with Moore-Whitehurst at the St. Nicholas Arena, in Manhattan. There had been a time when two fight cards on the same night in New York would not have been allowed. The local commission would have stepped in to prevent the two boxing venues harming each other financially. That this was no longer the case was an indication of the growing influence of television.