MUHAMMAD "THE GREATEST" ALI - MAGAZINE PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED CO-SIGNED BY: JOE "SMOKIN JOE" FRAZIER - HFSID 143371
Sale Price $1,350.00
Reg. $1,600.00
MUHAMMAD ALI and JOE FRAZIER
Color magazine photograph of the two boxers from one of their well-remembered
matches
Magazine Photograph signed: "Muhammad/Ali" and "Joe Frazier" Color, 8x10. Ali and
Frazier fought three times, Frazier winning in 1971 and Ali winning in 1974 and in 1975 in
the "thrilla in Manila". On Feb. 25, 1964, MUHAMMAD ALI (1942-2016), born Cassius
Marcellus Clay, Jr., knocked out champion Sonny Liston in the seventh round in Miami
Beach to win the World Heavyweight title. He was stripped of his title in 1967 for refusing
military service. On Oct. 30, 1974, Ali KO'd George Foreman in the eighth round in Zaire
to regain the title. Leon Spinks became champ when he won a 15-round decision over Ali on
Feb. 15, 1978 in Las Vegas but lost a rematch with Ali in New Orleans in another 15-round
decision on Sept. 15, 1978. Ali retired as World Heavyweight Champion in 1979. He is
the only three-time World Heavyweight Champion. A 1964 Olympic gold medal winner,
JOE FRAZIER (1944-2011) went on to reign as the undefeated heavyweight world
champion from February 16, 1970 to January 22, 1973. Along the way, Frazier defeated
Muhammad Ali at the 1971 heavyweight world championships in New York, in a meeting
dubbed "the fight of the century." He later lost to Ali twice, in January 1974 and September
1975. Soon after losing to Foreman again at the 1976 world championships, Frazier retired.
He staged an unsuccessful comeback fight in 1981, in which he reached a draw with Floyd
Cummings, before retiring for good. Frazier was inducted into the International Boxing
Hall of Fame in 1990. Lightly creased. Otherwise, fine condition.
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