Boxing movies were quite common as choices to be put on film during the very early years of cinema. Dickson made a couple of these himself, but this is one of the least convincing.
Film was in its early days when this fight was filmed. In terms of what remains, only a very short snippet remains and to be honest watching it without any context will not tell you anything.
Leonard-Cushing Fight (1894)Edison had experimented with a fight movie in 1891 but this here was their first real attempt to show a boxing match (in 37-seconds) and apparently it was popular enough where many more followed. In the brief clip we see Jack Cushing and Mike Leonard each throwing a few punches at each other while the referee sits back as well as four other men who are sitting behind the ropes.
This is the first ever filmed boxing match, from Edison and Co. They practiced it before with the movie "Men Boxing" in 1891, which featured two Edison employees in a fake fight.
