Greatest Fights - The Thrilla in Manila (Ali v Frazier 3) with Gene Kilroy
5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce
BBC
4.7 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2020
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier fought to a standstill in their final contest back in 1975, in what has become along with 'The Rumble in the Jungle' one of the defining fights in the history of 'The Greatest'.
One of the last surviving members of Ali's inner circle, his business manager and confidante Gene Kilroy, joins Mike Costello and Steve Bunce to remember the build up, the night, and the legacy left by Ali.
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| 0:00.0 | It's 2003 in Birmingham. |
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| 0:07.1 | They were capable of murder. |
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| 0:15.6 | The home boy thought we're not going to take this anymore. |
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| 0:19.6 | Before turning on each other. |
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| 0:27.6 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
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| 0:38.7 | Kostello and Bunce's greatest fights. |
| 0:44.0 | And welcome for the last time to our Greatest Fight Series on Five Live Boxing with Costello |
| 0:49.6 | and Bunths. |
| 0:50.5 | And for this, the 10th and final episode we focus on a contest which in terms of the |
| 0:56.6 | magnitude of the two men involved the truly global appeal of the showdown and the way |
| 1:02.4 | it turned out has to be Steve close to the number one the |
| 1:06.7 | greatest fight of all time. The thriller in Manila October 1975. Have you ever read anybody that was ringside who said it wasn't the |
| 1:16.0 | greatest fight they ever attended? Who said it wasn't a privilege? Mohammed Ali was |
| 1:20.6 | 33, Joe Frazier was 31. |
| 1:23.5 | A year earlier Ali had performed magic |
| 1:26.2 | at the rumble in the jungle to beat Foreman, |
| 1:28.5 | thrown in against Frazier again. |
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