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Mike Tyson vs. Tony Tucker, billed as The Ultimate, was a professional boxing match contested on August 1, 1987 for the WBA, WBC, and IBF heavyweight championships. [2]
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]
After both Julio César Chávez and Oscar De La Hoya defeated their opponents (Scott Walker and Darryl Tyson respectively) in tune-up bouts on February 9, 1996, the two fighters agreed to face one another in a "dream match" set for June of that year. The undefeated De La Hoya had already won world titles in two divisions and was looking to ...
More than six decades after the NCAA ended collegiate boxing, Sacramento State and UC Davis returned to the ring on Friday night for the inaugural Causeway Boxing Classic. The two Sacramento ...
A fight between Julio César Chávez and Héctor Camacho, two of the top fighters in the super lightweight division, had been discussed as early as 1989, though problems within Camacho's management team prevented HBO, who then held Chávez's television rights, from making the fight with then-HBO sports head Seth Abraham stating "While I'd love to do the fight, I'm not sure who to make the deal ...
Tyson Fury outslugs the biggest slugger of them all. 10. Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder met a third time for the WBC heavyweight title on Oct. 9, 2021, at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
This fight was mentioned in the animated TV series Mike Tyson Mysteries episode "Ultimate Judgment Day" from 2014. In the episode Mike Tyson says Trevor Berbick wanted to call their 1986 fight 'Ultimate Judgment Day', but then the ghost of Berbick appears to correct Tyson, saying that actually Tyson was the boxer that wanted to call it ...
Andy Ruiz Jr is the World Boxing Organization (WBO)’s No 1-ranked fighter below its champions, while Wilder is ranked sixth. If Wilder were to fight and beat Ruiz Jr, Wilder would likely ...