45 Years Ago: “Super-Fight II,” Ali Gets His Revenge Over Frazier
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On this day 45 long years ago, heavyweight greats Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier met in their anticipated rematch: “Super-Fight II.”
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Anthony Joshua Names His Three Greatest Heavyweight Champs
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Boxing’s elder statesman
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Who really won the epic fight that took place in October of 1974 – Muhammad Ali or George Foreman? Of course we KNOW who won the actual fight: Ali, with style and nerve, proved to be too much for a speedily depleted Foreman, who ran out of gas after just five rounds and was taken out soon after.
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The great Vasyl Lomachenko did it in his last fight – he fought not only his ring foe but also a torn shoulder – and over the long years of this exceptional sport we all love so dearly we have witnessed other examples of sheer bravery.
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The art of trash-talking has been around the sport of boxing for decades, with it today being as big a part of the game as stare-downs, catch-weight fights and rematch clauses.
The Greatest heavyweight comeback
We didn’t in all honestly learn too much from today’s “He’s Back” Tyson Fury presser in Manchester. We’ve known for some time now how the unbeaten, never-lost-his-titles in the ring former heavyweight champ will launch his comeback in his home town on June 9, and we’ve heard all the bravado from Fury, his insistence that he was, is, and always will be the best heavyweight on the planet.
Video: Top 10 Heavyweights by decade
Ranking fighters across different eras is a tricky business. Who was the greatest heavyweight of all time? That is a question that has resulted in endless debate among boxing fans throughout the years as one era transitions into the next with the passage of time.
The Fight Of The Century and the two giants who provided it
As surely any boxing fan knows, it was on this day – 47 long years ago – when Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, the two greatest heavyweights of their era, met in the fabled “Fight of The Century.”