muhammad ali frazier 3 special

Araheta Coliseum, Manila, Philippines. 1st October, 1975.
The finale of the Ali and Frazier trilogy and probably the greatest fight in boxing history. Although the Thrilla In Manila fight would quickly assume the same iconic status as the Rumble In The Jungle, the announcement that Ali and Frazier had signed to meet for a third time was not met with immediate enthusiasm.Both boxers were considered well past their best. Ali traveled to Manila with a 50 strong entourage, a vast circus of trainers, corner men, gofers and hangers on. Frazier traveled lighter just 17 were in his party, but his was a more heavy presence. He appeared dark and determined, a man bent on revenge and redemption no matter what the cost.This was another Don King promotion. He had extracted a vast fee from President Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Emelda, who treated the country's money as their own. Ali received $4 million guaranteed against 43 percent of the gross takings, and Frazier was getting $3 million (Ali in fact received $6 million).
The build up to the fight followed the familiar pattern. Goading Frazier with his"It will be a Killer, And a chiller, And a Thrilla, when I get the gorilla in Manila. At the pre fight press conference Ali produced a toy gorilla and began punching it.

Once again Frazier was hurt by Ali's antics. "Look at my beautiful kids. How can I be a gorilla?" Frazier said. "I don't want to knock him out, I want to take his heart out."

The fight began at 10:45 am to accommodate the closed circuit feed back to the US, with 28,000 Philippinos crammed into the stadium.Almost from the start, it soon become obvious that we were witnessing greatness. Ali started well, throwing right hand leads that had worked well against Foreman. Joe Frazier got caught cold and was tagged several times before he warmed up. By the third round Ali's corner were confident. In the fourth round Ali bust Frazier's mouth open, but Frazier just tossed his head back and kept on coming. The fight became intense, ferocious. In the sixth round Frazier threw a left hook that Angelo Dundee rated as the hardest shot he had seen ever thrown. It landed on ALi's jaw and spun his head round. Somehow, Ali swallowed the shot and said to Frazier, "They told me Joe Frazier was washed up.""They lied, Champ, they lied!" Frazier snarled at Ali.
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[strumped1]

back in the days when the best fought the best

[sparkermansw9]

No one has ever created so much fun & joy like Muhammad Ali did. And he was a nice person to meet as well. What a strong man too! He fought Ken Norton 3 months after he fought the worlds no.1 restler in Japan in 1976. Ali wasnt even at his best when he fought Norton the second time let alone the 3 fight they had. They all run up their mouth when Ali was finished as a fighter.They didnt do it when he was in his prime, not even Larry Holmes who beat a very faded Ali.

[Richard40171]

There are two POVs about the fight. I heard Ali wanted his gloves cut off before the 15th and one boxing pundit said he thought Frazier won the fight and Ali's legs were gone by the 14th round and he probably couldn't even stand up in the 15th. Ali himself said it was worse than (close to) death. The same pundit said he saw Frazier enjoying himself after the fight while Ali could hardly move. All this a preamble to a question: were the 3 official score cards ever released & how were they scored?

[50L3Warri0R]

@andrelebaron what a comment man,for ppl like u our planet is suffering from racism.

[smokinlefthook]

@vladiator100 would u eat ali s poop?

[53foxer]

Ali is a interesting man!.

[andrelebaron]

so there was a time when negroes dominated the heavyweights?

[1986ant1986]

apparently Ali wanted to quit at the end of 14 and his corner made him stay in.

in the other corner Frazier wanted to fight and the corner pulled him out.

[vladiator100]

@sparkermansw9 Yeah Ali never actually lost in his prime. And they took away Ali for almost 4 years of his prime. When he came back he became more human and thats why he lost. And still avenged all of those losses. Except the last two when he was 40 years old and had early signs of Parkinson Syndrome.

[Metatarsal]

Disgraceful from Ali yet he took Joe's money when he tried to help him out years earlier.

[3244gorilla]

JimiGuitar: U need to re-take "Intro. to English 101". Sorry, but someone had to tell you...