 The March 28th card featured heavyweight Willie Reddish, who later trained Sonny Liston and Joe Frazier.Jimmy Toppi Sr. purchased the building in 1961 for $85,000, and renamed it after the song "Beyond the Blue Horizon" from the 1930 film Monte Carlo.After another series of renovations, regular boxing shows began in the Blue Horizon on November 3, 1961.