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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 ...
Charles Wepner (born February 26, 1939) is an American former professional boxer. [2] [3] He fell just nineteen seconds short of a full fifteen rounds against world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali in a 1975 championship fight. Wepner also scored notable wins over Randy Neumann and former world heavyweight champion Ernie Terrell.
The night of the fight, Wepner manages to score a knockdown against Ali, but is ultimately dominated, getting knocked out in the 15th and final round. However, Chuck becomes a local hero, with him receiving a call that a film is being produced based on his fight with Ali, subsequently winning best picture. Chuck allows the fame to get to his ...
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José Gonzáles vs. Kevin Sullivan ended in a time-limit draw: Singles match: 20:00: 3: Chief Jay Strongbow and Billy White Wolf (c) defeated The Executioners (#1 and #2) Two-of-three-falls match for the WWWF World Tag Team Championship: 19:58: 4: André the Giant defeated Chuck Wepner by countout: Singles match: 07:15: 5: Bruno Sammartino (c ...
The real-life events that inspired Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist took place on Oct. 26, 1970, when Ali made his highly anticipated return to boxing in a match against Jerry Quarry. The ...
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.
The Peacock limited series with an all-star ensemble focuses on an infamous crime that took place on the same night as Muhammad Ali's historic 1970 comeback fight in Atlanta.