Joe Bugner, heavyweight boxer who went the distance with Muhammad Ali twice, dead at 75
Joe Bugner, an old heavyweight boxer who fought Muhammad Ali twice in his career, died.
Bugner was 75 years old.
“Former British, European British Society of Nations Heavyweight Champion and World Championship contestant Joe Bugner, Australia, Brisbane died in the care house. British Boxing Control Board It was approved on Monday.
“The British Boxing Control Board increases Joe’s family.”
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Bugner was a talented boxer, but he was not in the good elegant of those in the native Britain after he sent a boxing legend of a boxing legend in the Society of Nations in 1971 to retirement. Victory gave him the titles of British, British Nations and Europe heavyweight. Bugner did not rely on these arches after he lost later in 1971.
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In 1973, when they entered the ring in an out -of -head fight in Las Vegas, he continued to confront Ali for the first time. Bugner was able to distance the boxing icon, but Ali would get to win with points.
Only five months later, Bugner was in the ring against the legendary Joe Frazier on the home territory in the Earl’s Court in London. Like the fight against Ali, the bugner could go to the distance, but as Frazier won with points, he came soon after.
The most exciting fight arrived in 1975 between Bugner and Ali in Kuala Lumpur and fought each other for the second time. In front of a packed crowd, Bugner and Ali went on a full 15 rounds on the canvas, but the first came out as the loser once again.
Bugner fought for 32 years and ended his career before moving to Australia in 1999. After the diagnosis of dementia, he spent the last years of his life in a helpful life house.
Bugner went 69-14 over 83 fights that ended in a distance of 41.
Bugner was a boxer born in Hungary, who moved to England as a child refugee in the 1956 Soviet invasion.
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