Certainly the biggest sports competition of them all. Two great massive scales, two very different characters. Ali was bold and swift, raging quietly and proud. They were also very different in the ring.
“The problem with you, Joe, is that you can’t
“But I can fight,” answered Frazier. And the boy could fight.
Their first meeting, in Madison Square Garden in March 1971, was the biggest event in the history of boxing, displayed in 35 foreign countries and had similarities with the first fight between Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury, because he directed the prevailing master (phrase) against the line master (Ali).
Both were unbeatable-Frazier won all 26, Ali had 31-0-and the competition became personal with Ali Dramting Frazier, calling him “ugly” and “stupid” and worse. The phrase replied with his fists, dropping Ali in the last to make sure that winning unanimously points.
The bad feeling between Ali and the Frazier spilled in the days before the rematch, both were fined in the amount of $ 5,000 after the clash, when they watched the repetition of the first joint fight.
Ali provided less drama in the ring, clearly winning points. Next was “Trełka in Manila”.
“It’s a real hatred,” said the phrase in gathering. “I want to hurt him.”
Ali seemed less motivated, probably dispersed by the company of his mistress in the Philippines.
“[Frazier] He looked like Ali wanted to hit during the instructions, “Ferdie Paczeco, Ali, remembered.” Ali looked as if he expected a tennis playing. ” During the fight, Jerry Izenberg, a well -known sports writer, sensed that Ali and Frazier “fought for the championship”, and after 14 rounds of action in heating heat could not.
According to Wali Muhammad, “Cut ‘Em Off” was an instructions for Ali. “He was tired,” Muhammad remembered. “He wanted us to cut the gloves. [Trainer] Angelo [Dundee] He ignored him. “
Dundee was saved before making a decision because he called the judge by Eddie Futch. The phrase said: “It’s over. The world will never forget what you have done here today.”
Dundee later said: “Both guys lacked gas, only my guy had an additional tank.”
Floyd Patterson vs Ingemar Johansson (’59 -’61)
The only case of the Swedish Playboy Johansson, who defeated the favorite 1/5, seemed to be if he could land with his right hand.
Johansson boasted: “No man can get up” Tooner “(Grzmot)”, and when he landed on Patterson’s chin in the third round, he landed on his back. Patterson was still Groggy and looked at his corner to get advice when the fight resumed, and Johansson did not show him mercy, smashing him to the floor, smashing him to the floor.
In the third round there was a total of seven knocking before the judge announced Johansson with a fresh champion. The story was in the corner of Johansson, when they met in a rematch 12 months later. No massive weight has previously regained the title. Patterson was determined to become the first. He was faster to stab, and his left hook kept Johansson’s right hand glued to the chin.
He couldn’t stop Patterson’s left hook in the third round. Johansson fell, and Patterson’s strength on the left hook later in the round made him unconscious. 10 minutes passed before Johansson could leave the ring.
They were both in a dramatic opening round in a rubber match. Patterson first fell on his right hand. The same blow forced him again, and Johansson went to the finish. He fell into the left hook and was on the floor.
Of these two Patterson, he seemed more shocked, but at the end of the third, Johansson cut both eyes and hurt him with body shots. Johansson responded to the edema under the left eye of Patterson, but to the sixth Swede disappeared, and Patterson chopped him to the floor with the laws.
Riddick Bowe vs Evander Holyfield (’92 -’95)
From 32 rounds Bowe and Holyfield fought, we will always be remembered.
Bowe was the first to break down in the 10th round of his first fight, in Las Vegas in November 1992. Holyfield remembered: “Bowe hit me more than ever I was hit in my life, a substantial blow to the chin. I saw the stars … They danced around my head, like in one of these senior cartoons.”
For about the next minute, Bowe threw everything at Holyfield, firing 40 full -blooded blows at him. Somehow the champion remained on his feet, and Holyfield gathered, pushing the heavier Bowy and hitting with mighty beard blows.
Bowe answered and bombs threw herself at each other as the bell rang. Bowe has remained more in the tank over the last two rounds, dropping Holyfield on the 11th place on the way to a unanimous victory.
In the seventh round of the rematch there was a drama when Bowe, Holyfield and Judge Mills Lane almost joined in the ring by parachutist James Miller. In one of the most strange incidents in heavyweight history, he hit the ring lights in the Caesar Palace, causing a delay in over 20 minutes. After the resumption of Holyfield, he adhered to his game plan and went to most of the victory.
Then he lost to Michael Moorer, and Holyfield retired after diagnosing a heart defect.
He returned to overtake Ray Mercer and configured a rubber match with Bowe, who used the satisfactory knockout of the former amateur winner Jorge Luis González.
After five rounds, Bowe looked close to victory against Holyfield.
The judge and doctor were so worried, they went to check Holyfield in his corner. They decided that he could continue, and Holyfield met Bowe in the middle of the ring at the beginning of the sixth, forced him to replace him and dropped him with his left hook, pointing to the amazing return.
Each left hook Holdfield aimed at Waltny Bowe for the next few seconds, and when they replaced the blows again in eighth place, Holyfield was on canvas.
There was nothing left in “Nine”, and Bowe only needed two more shots to end the electrifying trilogy.
The best of the rest Looking back at other heavyweight competitions, which gave birth to three matches
Muhammad Ali vs Ken Norton
Only the phrase previously defeated Ali, and Norton shared the coach Eddie Futch with him. The senior wise man suspected of Norton’s style was enraged for Ali and so he proved. Ali’s jaw was broken before the last round of Norton sealed nervousness.
Ali would win an immediate return, almost about moving with the moving effort during the closing session. A rubber match, the only of three for the world title, was noted there and back, which again decided on the last round. Two judges had their level of 14 rounds, judge Arthur Mercante had rounded ali.
Dundee said Ali: “Fight like hell, we need this round,” while through the ring the instruction for Norton was: “You don’t risk it. You have a fight.”
Both forbidden orders and Ali, more and more oriented, won unanimously on the results cards.
Danny Williams vs Michael Sprott
Sprott entered to challenge Williams for his British and community stripes of only five -day notification in February 2002, and was dropped and detained in seven rounds.
The rematch continued reading, the hometown of Sprott, 19 months later and ended in controversial. Sprott turned to the judge to complain about the low blow in seventh place and although he did not look, Williams flattened him with his left hook.
The management ordered to fight again, and Sprott won one point, a decision that stunned many in the ring. Williams complained about the management, but they did not take any action.
Jack Gardner vs Johnny Williams
The first struggle between these rivals from Midlands in the eliminator of the British and British Empire (community of nations) was so exhausting, both later they ended up in the hospital.
Gardner won this fight for points, Williams reversed the result of the rematch, and the decision -maker went to Gardner, a chicken breeder from Market Harborough, LeiceStershire. He dropped Williams four times in five -time demolition.
Axis Kalambay at PTS 15 Iran Barkley Octabar 23 1987; Palazzo dello Sport, Livorno, Italy Kalambay’s Sumbay is often overlooked when historians call the best medium weights in the era of post-Marvin Hagler. But when someone thinks that Kalambay defeated Herola Graham (twice), Mike McCallum, Steve Collins and Iran Barkley, it is clear that he should not. The Italian silky idol was Muhammad Ali and against the free, gritty and strenuous (and let’s not forget, very good) Barkley, Kalambay showed his extensive repertoire in the last fight for the title WBA Middle Wweight to plan 15 rounds. More educational than exhilarating, Kalambay shows exactly why it was very arduous to beat to raise a free belt.
Do you know? The title of WBA was deprived of Hagler after he signed a contract for the fight with Sugar Ray Leonard instead of a compulsory pretender, Herol Graham. Kalambay upset Graham in the fight for the title of EBU – which was a crazy fight for a “bomber”, in retrospect – to get a shot in a free crown.
Watch out for: The operate of a left stabbaya is arduous to determine. At the end of the fight, Barkley is bruised, bloody and well beaten.
Boxing weight classes – except for natural growth – is rarely a recipe for success, as the aged maxim was revealed, “good” UN always beats a good diminutive “Un”. In October 1937, a 21-year-old warrior from Deptford mentioned Tommy Martin He decided to overthrow the general principle.
Less than two years earlier, Tommy was a welterweight. But now he was tailored to a heavyweight with Jim Wilde of Swansea, who weighed as much as 15. 5 pounds. According to press reports, Martin was two lighter, but his actual weight could be even lighter. “In the best part of my career I have never been more than in medium weight,” he said later. “I used to wear a belt around the waist equipped with lead weights to look heavier.”
Even more surprising is that Tommy was successful as a ponderous weight, winning the nickname “Great Britain Brown Bomber”, of course, a great bow to Joe Louis. Jim Wilde was heavily outlined by 10 rounds in Empress Hall to give Martin the first of many wins in ponderous weight. Tommy would prove that he is one of the best in the country in delicate and ponderous weight, but unfortunately as a man with a mixed race he could not box the British title due to the absurd “colorful bar” BBBOFC, which required the players from the players born in Great Britain with two white parents.
Born in reading in January 1916 in the White English Mother and Jamaican Father, Tommy moved with his family to Deptford in South London in 1917. At the age of 14 he escaped from home and got a job as a boy from boxing Billy Stewart, ultimately becoming a fighter. This and later experience at the Billy Wood stand gave Martin precise knowledge about boxing.
He had his first official professional in 1933, at the age of 17 and quickly developed a great CV won, from time to time a failure. His scalps in Welter and Middle Weighing included high -quality men, such as Harry Mason, Jack Lewis, Paul Schaeffer, Bill Hardy and Moe Moss. Until 1938 and 1939, Tommy’s Fighting Wage oscillated between a delicate and ponderous weight when he gathered a 15-handing series of wins with wins on how Frank Hough, Jack Hyams, Tino Rolando, Al Robinson and the future British heavyweight champion Jack London (to whom he gave the third Stone).
At the beginning of 1940, Tommy went to America for a campaign organized by manager Harry Levene. He made his debut in Los Angeles in April against the highly rated Bob Nestelle, who stopped Lee Ramage and King Levinsky. Martin shook his knee in the fight and lost points, but a month later Ko’dell in return. Another noteworthy victory from Tommy’s brief spell in the USA was Pat Valentino, who later challenged Ezzard Charles about the world -heavy crown. However, Martin’s most impressive victory was above Buddy Knox (then 102-11-8), who defeated the former world king Bob Olin. Tommy developed Knox in September 1940, but was overtaken in return.
Martin’s career seemed to sail on her American route. He had only three fights and lost them all: a point defeat in returning with Jacek London, stopping Freddie Mills and KO in the first round at the hands of the previous victim of Al Robinson. Tommy’s concentration turned to the war service. He served with RAF and then to a sales jacket, but was wounded by a torpedo explosion and hospitalized in Montreal. He lost, and then, after two operations, he regained his sight before he joined American maritime infantry soldiers. After leaving the services, Tommy moved to Hollywood and founded the gym, but later qualified as a physiotherapist and opened his practice in Novel York. After the wedding, he settled on the Virgin Islands, where he worked as a prison governor until his retirement. He died in 1987.
Marco Antonio Barrera in PTS 12 Johnny Tapia~ November 2, 2002; MGM Grand, Las Vegas, NV This is not classic, but it is worth visiting again as a reminder of these two irresistible fighters. Barrera was probably the best at that time, while taping, try his best, he could not conjure up his highest form. Perhaps this partly applies to Barrera’s perfection, so natural, so bright in the ring, which did not allow the aging taps to be abutment. But Tapia, winning his first seven -digit payment day, showed a lot of classes. Ultimately, Barerra won the results of 118-110 twice and 116-112 to preserve his world championships in a featherweight.
Do you know? At the back of the shorts, Barrera was the name “tapia”. It was not, as it was often, a tribute to Johnny, but instead a tribute to his mother, whose maiden name was tapia.
Watch out for: Changing tactics from both. Tapia effectively falls into the opening round only so that Barrera changes the attack line. In the second half of the competition Tapia, a witness that it is sent, forces the exchange inside to refer to a larger (but not sufficient) success.
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