SuperFight, The - Marciano Vs. Ali

In the late 1960’s, a Miami boxing promoter, who had a successful radio series of fantasy boxing bouts between champs of years past, fed their statistics into a computer, which predicted a "winner." Based on the popularity of these fights, he convinced a retired Rocky Marciano and a suspended Muhammad Ali to meet in the ring for filmed fight based on the computer results.

On January 20, 1970, The "Fight of the Century: Ali vs. Marciano" was show one time in 1500 theatres across the United States and Europe and once in the early 70’s on ABC’s Wide World of Sports. All prints of the fight were destroyed, except for one given to the US Copyright office. The fight has not been seen since.

Marciano, the only Heavyweight Champion of the World to retire undefeated, was 45 in 1969. Ali, 27, was also an undefeated heavyweight champion who had made a dramatic entrance. These two boxing legends agreed to settle, once and for all, who was the greatest.

Upplagd i sortimentet: 16 Maj, 2006