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70 moments that made Ali great | ShortList Magazine  2) The first person I ever knocked out was my mom. ... as he loses a six-round decision to become the now-heavyweight Clay's first professional victim. ... The goading of Sonny Liston, in an effort to get a world title fight, is ceaseless. .... 1 October 1975: Frazier's corner stop their man from getting up for the 15th round. Ali...
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Muhammad Ali was not a great fighter - Boxing Forum  Feb 28, 2006 ... The NY Times reported, In 10 rounds, he (Ali) landed fewer than 10 solid punches. ... He only won the title because he beat an over-rated Muhammad Ali. ... He was even knocked out by some guy named John Carlo in one round who ... His two previous opponents were Hasim Rahman (236 lbs, 35-2) and...
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jeopardy/1110_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  MUHAMMAD ALI'S GREATEST HITS | There were fewer teeth than usual for Ali to knock out when he decisioned this man in '78 to regain the title | Leon Spinks.
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RIP Muhammad Ali (#ThrowbackThursday to July 7, 2006)  The ...  Jun 4, 2016 ... $800 There were fewer teeth than usual for Ali to knock out when he decisioned this man in 78 to regain the title. Who is Leon Spinks?
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Tyron Woodley knocks out Robbie Lawler to win welterweight title at ...  Jul 31, 2016 ... There were some big talking points and some big knockouts in Atlanta, ... only one other man had done before - he knocked out Robbie Lawler and he did ... All of those losses for Pearson have come by way of decision which...
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Fight of the Century - Wikipedia  The Fight of the Century is the title boxing writers and historians have given to the boxing match between WBC/WBA heavyweight champion Joe Frazier (260, ... Ringside seats were $150 (around $880 in 2016 dollars) and each man was .... Frazier surrendered his title two years later in January 1973, knocked out by...
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Muhammad Ali is a three-time World Heavyweight champion.  Ali was not widely expected to defeat Sonny Liston who was favorite to win ... stating he had a shoulder injury Ali became the youngest boxer ever to take .... In February 1978, Ali lost the heavweight title to 1976 Olympics Champion Leon Spinks. ... for the WBA version of the Heavyweight title, winning it for a record third time.
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Muhammad Ali dies at 74; boxing great shook up the world in and ...  Jun 4, 2016 ... Muhammad Ali is photographed at a chalkboard on the day of his Nov. ... Superlatives and hyperbole came to define him, and he was happy to let the ... status when Ali claimed in his 1975 autobiography, "The Greatest," that he threw it .... His boxing license was revoked, and he was stripped of his titles.
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Joe Frazier facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ...  Get information, facts, and pictures about Joe Frazier at Encyclopedia.com. ... He worked first as a delivery man for Coca-Cola and then as a construction worker at the .... In June of 1967 Muhammad Ali was stripped of his title and lost his boxing ... 1973, he fought and lost his title to George Foreman in a second-round TKO.
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Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali's clash with Joe Frazier remains a ...  Jun 4, 2016 ... Such was the ferocity of the third meeting between Ali and Frazier in the ... was dubbed 'The Thrilla in Manila'; Most brutal title fight in boxing history .... Foreman at the Rumble in the Jungle and subsequently conclusive, ... Ali won the second clash between the pair in 1974 and he .... 89m man is struggling.
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J! Archive - Show #64, aired 1984-12-06  In '81, he got $12 mil. for beating welterweight Thomas Hearns ... In '65, it took Muhammad Ali less than 2 min. to beat him...
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The Rumble in the Jungle, Muhammad Ali v George Foreman | On ...  The night Muhammad Ali slew the ogres' ogre when people expected him to be chewed ... He'd won the world title by flattening Joe Frazier six times in less than two ... The fight with Ali was staged in Kinshasa in Zaire, now the Democratic .... the following year, when cyclists started going to Mexico City for the helpful thin air.
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George Foreman | American boxer | Britannica.com  When Foreman regained the heavyweight title at age 45, he was the oldest world ... Despite his age and more than 30 additional pounds, Foreman remained a ... He surprised the sports world by regaining that crown more than 20 years later. ... added to the contemporary Olympic roster, the early Games were noted for a...
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Muhammad Ali's hometown says goodbye after the boxer dies aged ...  Jun 3, 2016 ... Muhammad Ali has died aged 74, a day after he was rushed to hospital in ... Farewell to the Louisville Lip: Muhammad Ali's hometown says goodbye to its ... A look back on the life of 'The Greatest': The Kentucky boy. ...... They had long known Ali as a humanitarian who once wouldn't think twice about...
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Ali mocked the unheralded boxer from Canada  but 15 rounds later  Mar 25, 2016 ... THE CANADIAN PRESS Canadian boxer George Chuvalo (left) lands a punch to the head of Muhammad Ali during their boxing match in Toronto in 1966. ... 15-round bout with Ali at Maple Leaf Gardens on March 29, 1966, transformed ... ChuvaloGeorge Chuvalo backs the world heavyweight champ into a...
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Ali defeats Spinks to win world heavyweight championship - Sep 15 ...  On this day in 1978, boxer Muhammad Ali defeats Leon Spinks at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans to win the world heavyweight boxing title for the third time in his ... On October 2, 1980, he returned to the ring and fought heavyweight champ .... On September 15, 1931, the Philadelphia Athletics beat the Cleveland...
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Muhammad Ali at 70: How the 'Louisville Lip' became 'The Greatest ...  Jan 17, 2012 ... Muhammad Ali at 70: How the 'Louisville Lip' became 'The Greatest' ... Cassius Clay, as he was then known, first came to the attention of the ... Three years later, Clay took on England's Henry Cooper for the first time. He beat...
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Men's Fitness Special Ali - 2016 USA - Scribd  more than 30 years after his last fight, he still occupies such a hallowed ... knocked around by battles with other fighters and battles with the U.S. ... The Ali who has the most resonancethe one who remains a hero ..... and counter with a hard left hook or straight right ... pay final respects to the great Smokin' Joe Frazier
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Muhammad Ali Dead: Legendary Boxer Was 74 - Time  He was 22 years old, one of the youngest heavyweight champions of all time, as well as ... But he quickly found, as Clay's pro trainer Angelo Dundee would a few years later, that ... His greatest accomplishment to that point was appearing on the cover of TIME, ...... In 1999, Ali became the first boxer to grace a Wheaties box.
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Leon Spinks Finds His Way - Page 2 - tribunedigital-chicagotribune  Mar 31, 1985 ... Even though he was outweighed by some 25 pounds--as he often ... size for a heavyweight--Spinks won a 15-round decision over Ali, ... Spinks held the title only until September, 1978, when he lost a .... February 27, 1992.
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Muhammad Ali vs Larry Holmes: 'The Last Hurrah' Was Anything But  Oct 3, 2012 ... Thirty-two years ago today, October 3, 1980, at Ceasars Palace in Las ... The TKO marked the first and only time Ali was stopped inside the ... of Sports Illustrated prior to his comeback bout against Larry Holmes ... After Holmes won the fight, he sat crying in his locker room. .... Orlando Cruz Comes Out .