Teddy on the 50th Anniversary of Muhammad Ali vs Joe Frazier 1 - "The Fight of the Century"

THE FIGHT with Teddy Atlas

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Fights, Sports, Training, Ufc, Boxing, Mma

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🗓️ 8 March 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Teddy Atlas and co-host Ken Rideout discuss the first of the historic Muhammad Ali vs Joe Frazier matches given the 50th Anniversary of Ali Frazier 1.

Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier, billed as the "Fight of the Century" (also known as The Fight), was the boxing match between WBC/WBA heavyweight champion Joe Frazier (26–0, 23 KOs) and The Ring/lineal heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali (31–0, 25 KOs), held on Monday, March 8, 1971, at Madison Square Garden in New York.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the fight with Teddy Atlas presented by Dynamics
0:08.0	Striking. I'm Ken Rideout joined as always by the legendary trainer
0:12.4	Teddy Atlas in today very special episode
0:15.1	today we're going to talk about the 50th anniversary of Ali Frazier 1 fight
0:19.5	of the century March 8th 1971 71
0:23.0	Talk to me.
0:25.0	Yeah I mean listen it's an iconic fight it's now it's a way of
0:30.0	sort of using now partly to kind of judge how old you are, to mark how old you are that
0:40.0	wow that many years went by wow I, I was young when Frasian Alley were doing this and you know it's a way of marking time.
0:48.0	Great events become ways of marking time.
0:52.0	Great events in history. It was huge. I mean, it was like Ali and Frazier in their own way, they were pioneers in a lot of ways but they broke barriers in many ways
1:07.8	Ali of course in many ways with his social stances. But they broke barriers in the ring,
1:16.0	athletically, and what they did.
1:17.8	Because back in those days,
1:20.1	fighters were making that kind of money.
1:21.8	It reminds me a little bit of baseball. The owners were in charge. The owners were making all the money. The players back in the day, they'd have to play a season no matter how great they won and a lot of them still had to work jobs.
1:34.0	People forget that. I mean those days are long, long gone.
1:38.0	But it was, it existed in our history, in our country, in sports.
1:44.5	And they weren't making that money.
1:46.4	And then a guy named Flood and Catfish Hunter,
1:49.2	they came along and they brought look back.
1:55.0	all of a sudden baseball
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