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Joe Frazier vs. Muhammad Ali, billed as The Fight of the Century or simply The Fight, [2] was an undisputed heavyweight championship boxing match between WBA, WBC, and The Ring heavyweight champion Joe Frazier and Lineal champion Muhammad Ali, on Monday, March 8, 1971, at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
The Fight of the Century or the Johnson–Jeffries Prize Fight was a boxing match between the first African American world heavyweight champion of boxing Jack Johnson and the previously undefeated world heavyweight champion James J. Jeffries on July 4, 1910, U.S. Independence Day.
Muhammad Ali vs. Chuck Wepner was a professional boxing match contested on March 24, 1975, for the undisputed heavyweight championship. [1] Ali won the fight after he knocked out Wepner in the fifteenth round. The fight is notable for being among the four fights in which Ali was officially knocked down in the ring, and for inspiring the 1976 ...
[7] The New York Times ' regular boxing writer Joe Nichols declined to cover the fight, assuming that it would be a mismatch. By fight time, Clay was an 8-to-1 betting underdog . [ 8 ] Of the 46 sportswriters at ringside, 43 had picked Liston to win by knockout.
Marvin Hagler vs. Thomas Hearns, billed as The Fight, [1] (referred to afterwards as The War), [2] was a professional boxing match contested on April 15, 1985, for the undisputed middleweight championship.
Muhammad Ali vs. Ernie Terrell, billed as The Battle of Champions, was a professional boxing match contested on February 6, 1967, for the undisputed heavyweight championship. [1] The fight went 15 rounds, with Ali winning through a unanimous decision. [2]
After coming in as a 25–1 underdog, in a shocking upset, Ruiz Jr. won the match via technical knockout in the seventh round, [2] [3] ending Joshua's undefeated record and becoming the new unified heavyweight champion. Ruiz became the only American boxer to win the unified heavyweight championship since Hasim Rahman in 2001.
Boxing experts have regarded Ali's victory over Shavers to be one of the most impressive and brutal performances of his late boxing career. [3] [4] [5] Sports Illustrated boxing writer Pat Putnam said: That fight with Shavers, and particularly the last round, sums up for me what Ali was about, even though he was long past his prime.