Given the circumstances, Ali's eventual winning return, also against Quarry, would turn the chatter of 'what if' into demands for the real deal. Six months later, the two would oblige. The iconic venue is renowned as a 'mecca' for boxing, professional wrestling and more recently after a state-wide ban, mixed martial arts. The end result was a unanimous decision victory for 'Smokin' Joe', and it was Ali who lost his unbeaten record on the night. Back then, championship fights still went as long as 15 rounds, and in the first two of 'The Fight Of The Century', Ali looked great.
However his command of the contest was halted by a great Frazier hook late in round three, at which point the defending champion began to control things. Frazier finished strongly in the 15th and final round, and the three scorecards were all in his favour. The fight was broadcast live pay-per-view on theatre television in the United States, where it set a record with 2. Combined, the fight sold 2. On both closed-circuit and free television, the fight was watched by a record million viewers worldwide.
It was watched by a record It was also watched by an estimated 5. Information courtesy of Wikipedia , via various sources. Mar 15, AM. Denise Currie. Mar 2, AM. Priscilla DeSpain, He was a conscientious objector to the war in Vietnam. He was arrested and tried for his convictions about the war. He also lost his Heavyweight title because of his stance against the war.
He gave up a lot for what he believed in. Have you ever killed a man for money? Have you ever cut a human being in half with a M Priscilla DeSpain,. Priscilla DeSpain. What I doubted was how honorable a man he was.
Aug 23, PM. Joseph A. Fred Zeb, yeah but he bragged about his looks, his fancy footwork, etc. So, yeah, he was good, but he was full of himself!
Ken Putnam. So, how many times did they box out of the ring? Inquiring minds want to know. Hey genius! Time to save your score! Sign up and get 50 welcome coins 9, players are online. Create an account to leave a comment. Your Choice Regarding Cookies on this Site. He ended up in Philadelphia, a city full of boxing gyms. Frazier won the next Olympic gold, taking the Olympic title in Tokyo in He broke his thumb in the semifinal, told nobody and won the final mostly one-handed.
Sylvester Stallone portrayed that, Frazier actually did it. Their paths met on that Monday night, 50 years ago, with Ali staring across the ring in his bright red shorts and Frazier staring back in his strangely less-than-macho paisley green. It is sometimes lost in all the memories and story lines about the fight that Frazier won a round decision and knocked down Ali in the 15th round.
Muhammad Ali vs. Those were the days when movie theaters, along with the live gate, provided the fight revenue. This was before pay-per-view on your home TV, before satellite hookups, before the internet. Once, at the behest of Bobby Kennedy, then U. Attorney General, Arum stopped a tax fraud attempt by New York lawyer Roy Cohn, who was promoting a major fight and trying to pay his boxers out of the country to avoid taxes.
Cohn was the adviser to Sen. Joe McCarthy during the controversial Congressional hearings on communism in the s and was also a lead lawyer and confidant for a young Donald Trump.
Arum had become a boxing promoter, almost out of happenstance, through his friendship with former NFL star Jim Brown. Starting in , Arum would promote 16 Ali fights in the next 12 years, including several outside the country when Ali was banned in the U. It was a joke. I thought he was just some Hollywood clown. I penciled it out. Judge [Roy] Hofheinz in Houston — we had done some fights together — called and said he could come up with the money.
I told him not to worry. I call it sneaky vitriol. People choosing sides. To whites, Frazier was the good Black man. Ali was the favorite of younger people, the more liberal ones. And get it! I think Perenchio died a billionaire. Nothing else even comes close. He saw a crowd of celebrities, much more than usual for a big fight. People had clear rooting agendas. The older white people were for Frazier, the younger people and most Black people for Ali. To the Frazier backers, their fighter was a hard worker who did his job and kept his mouth shut, while Ali was a draft dodger and a loudmouth, anti-war extremist.
The crowd represented racism, anger, irrationality and even hate. By , Tim Ryan had advanced past the fuzzy-faced, new-kid reporter phase. He was asked to do a radio play-by-play of Ali-Frazier. His boxing experience had been limited to occasional fights on Mutual Radio.
Perenchio and Cooke had decided to protect their close-circuit telecasts however possible. One way was to shut out radio. At the last minute, New Zealand asked for a broadcast. Then, just days before the fight, it was discovered that Armed Forces Radio had no broadcast. It had been traditional that soldiers abroad would get broadcasts of major fights.
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