Originally posted by hayZ
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I love the 71 fight because of the way the fight is split into 2 halves. Ali clearly winning the 1st half, but Frazier pounding Ali in the 2nd.
Also i dont think u can seperate the cirtumstances of each fight and the actual fight.
In the first we had the return of the king, undefeated. Versus the new champ, a brutal punching machine. The way people were divided over who they wanted to win.
Ali finally getting beat set up the Foreman-Frazier 'fight' and therefore the amazing Ali-Foreman fight which made Ali a legend.
The 75 fight was nearly as significant. They gave everything they had, but Frazier would never had been stopped years before.
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