According to newspaper reports the film showed the following: According to Hugh MacIntosh: The show lasts two hours, and not only is the whole fight presented in detail with all the doings between the rounds, but films are shown depicting Johnson and Burns going through their training work, swimming, hall-punching, boxing, massaging, and both.

[5]Hugh D. MacIntosh promoted the fight and was also involved in distribution of the film in Queensland in association with E. J. Carroll.

[11] Hugh McIntosh arranged for footage to be taken of Burns and Johnson training and this was shown prior to the fight.

I am of opinion that the French experts did not fully understand the atmospheric conditions of Australia, and, though we have their films as a standby, it is the one taken by Mr Spencer which we are showing all over the world.

The film was shown almost immediately after the fight, debuting in Sydney at Rushcutter's Bay Stadium on 28 December 1908, to a crowd between 7,000 and 8,000.

[21] According to a contemporary review of a packed out screening: The various movements in the game were watched with much concern, and the good and bad moves groaned at or cheered according to deserts, while laughter was provoked at frequent intervals by the half-comical episodes that occurred.