Championship fight held at Brassco Park2005-08-25 · Waterbury Republican American,CT
Waterbury has hosted three world championship title fights, and the first was on Aug. 27, 1925. Beyond being a first for the city, it was the first title fight in Connecticut in 25 years. The bout was to crown the featherweight champion of the world, and it featured a Connecticut man, Louis "Kid" Kaplan. Born in Russia, Kaplan lived and trained out of his adopted home in Meriden. He stood 5-foot-…