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  1. Jun 4, 2016 · The “Thrilla in Manila” is remembered as the greatest fight of all time. Sportscaster Ronnie Nathanielsz remembers Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier’s legendary bout.

    • Boxing historians describe it as a boring, overrated fight. In terms of action and brutality, most people today consider Ali-Frazier III as light-years more intense than the recent Pacquiao-Mayweather fight.
    • President Marcos reportedly used Thrilla in Manila as “distraction.” In 1975, there was a brewing revolution in the Philippines as a result of President Ferdinand Marcos’ martial law declaration 3 years earlier.
    • The phrase ‘Thrilla in Manila’ was coined by Muhammad Ali himself. In the days leading up to their epic fight in Manila, Ali didn’t hold back in hurling personal insults to his opponent.
    • Frazier was already partially blind when he fought Ali in Thrilla in Manila. Turns out, Manny Pacquiao was not the only prizefighter in history who knows how to conceal an injury.
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  3. Oct 1, 2023 · Oct. 1, 1975: Ali vs Frazier III. October 1, 2023 Michael Carbert. More than four decades later, one still hears the echoes, the reverberations of that final, epic struggle between two boxing legends. After all, it was more than a heavyweight championship boxing match, much more. It was a monumental clash of wills, a last battle between bitter ...

  4. Oct 1, 2015 · Four decades after Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier's third fight, the "Thrilla in Manila" is still one of the most famous fights around the world. Ali described the world heavyweight title fight in ...

  5. Jan 17, 2017 · Getty Image. The Thrilla in Manila bout was so intensely combative, that it not only changed the career course for both Ali and Frazier — two fighters in the twilight of their careers — it had ...

  6. Sep 30, 2015 · The “Thrilla in Manila” — the third in the epic boxing trilogy between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier — was 40 years ago on Oct. 1, 1975, and it still lives in sporting lore. (AP Photo ...

  7. It has been 40 years since Ali and Frazier stepped into a ring at the Araneta Coliseum in the Philippine capital on Oct. 1, 1975, to face one another for the third and final time. When they staggered out, the world had “The Thrilla in Manila.”. Ali, making the 13th defense of the heavyweight championship, barely survived the fury of his ...

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