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Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier 1971 Madison Square Garden NYC World heavywieght Championship bout between two undefeated champions.
Ali stands in a neutral corner after being knocked down by a sweeping Joe Frazier left hook. The winner on this historic night was the loser Muhammad Ali.
2013 June 16 - dead dog (athens/nyc grungy punk pop), muhammad ali, vidor, days n' daze @ essc (houston,tx)
They (HBO) filmed scenes for a movie right outside my apartment . This lighting crane was set-up in the church parking lot on the north side of my building . The action was centered around the house almost dead center , there were also shots looking down my street (to the right) . The 1960's was the time frame for this movie, about Muhammad Ali's fight to be a conscientious objector . The site where I live was chosen because it looked a bit like Georgetown in Washington DC.
This crane was used to light up surrounding buildings, the street, and cars, includng my building, which was right behind me when I took this panorama...
One of the most interesting things about this filming, which started around 2pm, was that they contacted car clubs in the area and rounded up a number of classic cars (and a really cool period taxi0 to appear in the background of the shots . Many of the cars were later than the time period depicted, but they were all 1960's cars . It was like a classic car show . I posted some images of these cars etc. in the following images..
Muhammad Ali's mosque, built between 1830 and 1848, is the most visible of all the Islamic monuments in Cairo. Because it dominates the sky line it has became a symbol of the city, even though it is the least Egyptian of these monuments.
March 8, 1971, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York. Frazier won by unanimous decision and retained the title.
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May 25, 1965
"Get up and fight, sucker!" yells Muhammad Ali as Sonny Liston goes down in the first round in Lewiston Maine. Known as the "phantom punch" partly because Ali himself wasn't sure if he connected, many speculated that Liston took a dive.
Ali went to fight Oscar Bonavena at Madison Square Garden on December 7, 1970. After a tough 14 rounds, Ali stopped Bonavena in the 15th, paving the way for a title fight against Joe Frazier.For more visit
USA. Chicago 1966. Muhammad Ali, boxing world heavy weight champion showing off his right fist. © Thomas Hoepker / Magnum Photos
Foreman regained the world heavyweight championship with a stunning 10th-round knockout of Michael Moorer on 5 November 1994 in Las Vegas. He became oldest ever heavyweight champion at 45 years old.
Photograph: Al Bello/Getty Images
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Here are the highlights of this amazing bout:
British Empire Heavyweight Champion Henry Cooper, with blood streaming from his left eye, is told by referee Tommy Little, that the fight is over. The referee decided to stop the fight in the fifth round of the contest at Wembley against Cassius Clay, when Cooper's eye got too bad. 18 June, 1963 Wembley, London, England, UK
March 8, 1971, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York. Frazier won by unanimous decision and retained the title.
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Happy Toy-in-the-frame Thursday!
"A giant among men, Ali displayed [more] greatness in talent, courage & conviction [than] most of us will EVER be able to truly comprehend. #RIPAli"
- former heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis
Peanut (right): "Dora, I'm so glad you suggested that I do my school report on Muhammad Ali. It's my final report of the year and I want it to be the best. I'm almost finished writing it."
Dora: "I've heard Mom talk about him so much, I knew you would find him really interesting."
Peanut: "There was no one like him before--or since. He was only 22 when he won the Heavyweight championship and said, "I must be the greatest!" He had no idea how true that would become. And to lose 3 years of the prime of his career to stand up as a conscientious objector during the war in Vietnam Nam--he really took a stand. To regain the World Championship against one of the biggest knock-out punchers ever, George Foreman, is practically a miracle.
"Still the biggest lesson I learned from researching his life is that you should stand up for what you believe in, even if you have to pay a price."
Dora: "When he lit the flame at the Olympics in Atlanta--that was thrilling! I also think he raised so much awareness about Parkinson's disease. And he became a real humanitarian; he was 'the people's champion.'"
Peanut: "I read a lot of those lists of the greatest athletes of the 20th century that were done by ESPN, Sports Illustrated and others. Not all of them ranked Muhammad Ali as #1, though many did.
"No matter what, to me, he truly was 'the greatest of all time'; next to him, everyone else is just an athlete."
**God bless Muhammad Ali. Rest in peace, rest in power.
Joe Frazier (left) battling Muhammad Ali during their heavyweight title fight at Madison Square Garden in New York City on March 8, 1971.
© John Shearer—Time Life Pictures/Getty Images
Muhammad Ali is generally considered to be the greatest heavyweight boxer in the history of the sport. Raised in Louisville, Kentucky, his birth name was Cassius Marcellus Clay but changed his name when he converted to Islam. His fights with Joe Frazier and George Forman are considered some of the greatest fights in the history of the sport. He died on June 3, 2016 from the complications of Parkinson's disease and is resting here in one of the more secluded spot in Cave Hill Cemetery.
Austin Powers Mini-Me actor Verne Troyer gives the peace sign with matchmaker Roseann Higgins at Celebrity Fight Night with Muhammad Ali for Parkinsons Research at Barrow Neurological Institute BNI at Arizona Biltmore Resort in Phoenix.
The title fight between Sonny Liston and Ali was scheduled On February 25, 1964 in Miami Florida. Ali was not widely expected to defeat Sonny Liston who was favorite to win (7–1 odds). When Liston failed to answer the bell for the seventh r...ound, stating he had a shoulder injury Ali became the youngest boxer ever to take the title from a reigning heavyweight champion, until Mike Tyson won the title from Trevor Berbick.
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Here's to the crazy ones.
The misfits.
The rebels.
The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
They're not fond of rules.
And they have no respect for the status quo.
You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them,
disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can't do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
They invent. They imagine. They heal.
They explore. They create. They inspire.
They push the human race forward.
Maybe they have to be crazy.
How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art?
Or sit in silence and hear a song that's never been written?
Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?
We make tools for these kinds of people.
While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.
Because the people who are crazy enough
to think they can change the world,
are the ones who do.
Original caption: Kinshasa, Zaire: George Foreman grazes Muhammad Ali with a left in their title fight. October 29, 1974 Kinshasa, Zaire
Joseph "Billy" Frazier, known as Smokin' Joe (born January 12, 1944), is an Olympic (1964) and World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, active from the mid 1960s to the early 1980s.
Frazier was a popular champion, ranked among the best ever heavy weights; reprising himself in cameo roles in several Hollywood films, and professionally is perhaps most famous for his trilogy of Heavyweight Championship fights with Muhammad Ali.
Frazier had a bullying fighting style, depending on bobbing, weaving and power punching. He is perhaps most famous for his vicious left hooks. Compared to Ali's style, he was close enough to the ideal bruiser that some in the press and media characterized the bouts as the answer to the classic question: "What happens when a boxer meets with a brawler."
According to Joe in the HBO special documenting "The Thrilla in Manila" fight, he was partially blind in his left eye due to a training accident in 1965. This would indicate that throughout his entire professional career, he fought with only partial sight on his left side.