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The Brawl in Montreal. Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Roberto Durán, billed as The Brawl in Montreal, was a welterweight professional boxing match contested between WBC and The Ring champion Sugar Ray Leonard and former undisputed lightweight champion Roberto Durán. The bout took place on June 20, 1980 at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal, Canada.
Result. Leonard wins via 8th-round TKO. Roberto Durán vs. Sugar Ray Leonard II, billed as The Super Fight, and later popularly known as the No Más Fight, was a boxing match which took place on November 25, 1980, at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, United States. It was the second of three bouts between the pair.
Mills Bee Lane III (November 12, 1937 – December 6, 2022) was an American boxing referee and professional boxer, a two-term Washoe County, Nevada district court judge, and television personality. Lane was best known for having officiated several major heavyweight championship boxing matches in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, and for starring in ...
Frazier wins via 15-round unanimous decision (8–6–1, 9–6, 11–4) Joe Frazier vs. Muhammad Ali, billed as The Fight of the Century or simply The Fight, [ 2 ] was an undisputed heavyweight championship boxing match between WBA, WBC, and The Ring heavyweight champion Joe Frazier and Lineal champion Muhammad Ali, on Monday, March 8, 1971, at ...
Location in Africa. George Foreman vs. Muhammad Ali, billed as The Rumble in the Jungle, was a heavyweight championship boxing match on October 30, 1974, at the 20th of May Stadium (now Stade Tata Raphaël) in Kinshasa, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo ), between undefeated and undisputed heavyweight champion George Foreman and ...
Light-heavyweight. Joseph Louis Barrow (May 13, 1914 – April 12, 1981) was an American professional boxer who competed from 1934 to 1951. Nicknamed " The Brown Bomber ", Louis is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential boxers of all time. He reigned as the world heavyweight champion from 1937 until his temporary retirement ...
List of World Chess Championships. Emanuel Lasker (left) facing incumbent champion Wilhelm Steinitz (right) in Philadelphia during the 1894 World Chess Championship. The World Chess Championship has taken various forms over time, including both match and tournament play. While the concept of a world champion of chess had already existed for ...
Spinks wins via 15-round split decision (142-143, 144-141, 145-140) Muhammad Ali vs. Leon Spinks was a professional boxing match contested on February 15, 1978, in Las Vegas, Nevada, for the WBA, WBC, and The Ring heavyweight championship. [ 1]