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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. [3] [4] [5]
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.
Muhammad Ali vs. Earnie Shavers was a professional boxing match contested on September 29, 1977, for the undisputed heavyweight championship. [2] The fight went the distance with Ali winning a hard-fought unanimous decision. [3] [4] [5]
Almost like a rerun of Hagler-Hearns. 4. Diego Corrales vs. Jose Luis Castillo is the greatest fight I ever covered from ringside. I sat with Corrales a few weeks before the fight and he looked at ...
The bout is almost universally regarded as one of the best and most brutal fights in boxing history, and was the culmination of a three-bout rivalry between the two fighters that Ali won, 2–1. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Some sources estimate the fight was watched by 1 billion viewers, [ 10 ] including 100 million viewers watching the fight on closed ...
Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao, billed as the Fight of the Century or the Battle for Greatness, [1] was a professional boxing match between undefeated five-division world champion and WBA (Super), WBC, TBRB and The Ring welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. and eight-division world champion and WBO, and IBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao for the unified world welterweight ...
Mike Tyson vs. Buster Douglas, billed as Tyson is Back!, was a professional boxing match that occurred at the Tokyo Dome on February 11, 1990. [1] The then-undefeated, undisputed heavyweight champion Tyson lost by knockout to the 42-1 underdog Douglas. The fight is widely regarded as one of the biggest upsets in sports history.
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. [3]