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In 1999, Ali was named the second greatest boxer in the history of combat sports, pound for pound by ESPN. He was only behind the welterweight and middleweight legend Sugar Ray Robinson. [5] In December 2007, ESPN placed Ali second in its choice of the greatest heavyweights of all time, behind Joe Louis. [6]
George Foreman vs. Muhammad Ali, billed as The Rumble in the Jungle, was a heavyweight championship boxing match on October 30, 1974, at the 20th of May Stadium (now Stade Tata Raphaël) in Kinshasa, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo), between undefeated and undisputed heavyweight champion George Foreman and Muhammad Ali.
The fight became famous for Ali's introduction of the rope-a-dope tactic. [111] The fight was watched by a record estimated television audience of 1 billion viewers worldwide. [112] [113] It was the world's most-watched live television broadcast at the time. [114]
Ali was recovering from a recent battle with the flu. [citation needed] Through four rounds, Ali was fighting in a flatfoot stance, peppering Coopman with flurries of punches. In the fifth, the champion started to dance, circling to his left, then to his right, and confusing Coopman with backhand jabs. Then Ali threw a big uppercut.
Muhammad Ali vs. Antonio Inoki, billed as The War of the Worlds, [1] was a fight between American professional boxer Muhammad Ali and Japanese professional wrestler Antonio Inoki, held at the Nippon Budokan arena in Tokyo, Japan, on June 26, 1976.
On 16 April 1966 Muhammad Ali signed to make the fourth defence of the title he had won against Sonny Liston in June 1963, against Henry Cooper. [2] Cooper had faced Ali in the bout immediately prior to him becoming the champion and had famously knocked down the American with a trademark left hook at the end of the fourth round, with trainer Angelo Dundee appearing to possibly pop an ampule of ...
The 1975 title fight with Bugner was Ali's third title defense since 1974, and was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and remains the only world heavyweight championship fight hosted in the nation's history. Bugner lasted the 15 round distance, and once again neither man was knocked down, but Ali won the fight on points by a comfortable margin.
Ali also scored three knockdowns over the course of the fight (in the fifth, eighth and tenth rounds), although Mildenberger managed to beat the count each time. The fight finally came to an end when the referee stopped the fight halfway through the 12th round. The technical knockout would be Ali's 21st knockout victory in just 26 fights. [4 ...