For Sale: A Massive, Obsessive and Probably Obsolete VHS Boxing Archive

There’s a small apartment on 137th Street in Hamilton Heights that contains one of the most peculiar videotape collections in New York. It was the life’s work of Bela Szilagyi, a classical pianist and passionate fight enthusiast, who started the collection in 1979 when he taped a featherweight title match on a Quasar videocassette recorder. Mr. Szilagyi died in 2012 at 78 years old and his wife, a soft-spoken piano teacher, became the collection’s archivist.

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