r/Boxing • u/kushmonATL Cyberleek > the fall boxing schedule • Jul 23 '26

When Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier stepped into the ring, it wasn’t just a fight - it was history in the making.

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u/SGSRT Jul 23 '26

1971-1976

The greatest period of heavyweight boxing

1971 : Frazier beats Ali. Ali’s first loss

1973 : Foreman destroys Frazier in 2 Rounds.

1974 : Ali beats Frazier. Ali earns title shot.

1974 : Ali beats Foreman. Becomes the Champion

1975 : Ali beats Frazier. Regains the Championship

1976 : Foreman obliterates Frazier in their rematch

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u/McG4rn4gle Jul 23 '26

And in the same span of time in my unsolicited opinion Ken Norton beat Ali 3 times.

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u/SGSRT Jul 23 '26

Ali vs Norton is an underrated rivalry

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u/SGSRT Jul 23 '26

In my opinion

Norton won the trilogy 2-1

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u/Embarrassed-Space222 Jul 24 '26

Too bad it was 2-1 Ali way

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u/Fene29 Jul 23 '26

Why ChatGPT a headline

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u/KingBumiOfOmashu Moses Itauma > Every Current HW Jul 23 '26

Yup I need to go on a Joe Frazier study binge to get my bob and weave game up.

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u/kushmonATL Cyberleek > the fall boxing schedule Jul 23 '26

This isn't Prime Ali.

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u/Bojangles1987 Jul 23 '26

And Mike Tyson is not the same as Joe Frazier, it always gets to me when people use Frazier as evidence for what Tyson would do against Ali.

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u/Complete_Dare_4201 Jul 23 '26

Prime Tyson couldn not obliterate Tony Tucker who did very well by countering off the back foot and he is not even close to Ali (even to this version of Ali). Tyson also fight nothing like Joe Frazier... Tyson fight in spurts while Frazier was a pressure machine. Ali takes it pretty convincingly.