Description: “The Fight” Ali vs. Frazier Championship Edition #1/15 Giclee by Richard Slone. Richard Slone is a World renowned Boxing Artist. This piece is signed & certified by the artist. This is Limited Edition #1 of 15 Worldwide. Size: 30 inches by 40 inches. Joe Frazier vs. Muhammad Ali, billed as The Fight Of The Century or simply The Fight, was a heavyweight championship boxing match between 2 of the greatest fighters of their generation. WBA, WBC, and The Ring heavyweight champion Joe Frazier vs. former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world Muhammad Ali, on Monday, March 8, 1971, at Madison Square Garden in New York City. “People say Ali-Frazier, and the winner of that fight was Frazier," Sugar said about their first clash in March of 1971, a battle of undefeated heavyweights at Madison Square Garden that left both boxers hospitalized. “This is the day for Joe Frazier, who has always been the second slot to Muhammad Ali, even when he won. Today is the day when he stands up as his own and he’s Joe Frazier, period, paragraph, and he can stand up to anybody on his own," said Sugar. Boxing promoter Bob Arum said the three bouts stood as a hallmark in sport. “He gave the world what had to be one of the most thrilling trilogies in any sport," he said about Frazier’s bouts against Ali. “There was nothing like it in this country and in the world for the attention those fights received." Ali returned to face Frazier after a three-year exile imposed when he refused induction for the Vietnam War due to his Muslim beliefs—and the build-up was intense. “I think their first fight certainly was the biggest event I ever covered. It seemed like the world stopped in anticipation of it," HBO fight commentator Larry Merchant said in a phone interview from his California home. “It was building up for several years, two heavyweight champions. Ali in exile. Then to have the fight and the drama exceed the highest expectations, was a once-in-a-half-century, thrilling event."
Price: 2000 CAD
Location: Barrie, Ontario
End Time: 2024-02-06T18:16:41.000Z
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Returns Accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Sport: Boxing
Player: Muhammad Al & Joe Frazier
Signed: Yes
Original/Reprint: Original
Autograph Authentication: Richard Slone - Artist
Product: Limited Edition Giclee
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
