Episode 10 - 1979
It was the first year since 1959 that neither Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier or George Foreman had stepped into the professional boxing ring. Off...
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Yahoo Sport Presents: The History of the Heavyweight Championship
Join Steve Bunce as he unpacks the most exciting decade in heavyweight boxing history! The rise of a cultural icon, politics, monumental fights, civil rights: the 1960s had it all.
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Episode 9 - 1978
In 1978 the heavyweight boxing landscape changed forever. The old, the young, the obscure, the fatal dreamers and the relentless schemers al...
Episode 8 - 1977
1977 was a year of more demons, epiphanies, more decay, more denial, so many crazy fights and nights. Muhammad Ali was still the champion, h...
Episode 7 – 1976
When 1976 started, there had been murmurs of discontent about Muhammad Ali. People were talking about him quitting, men and women in the Ali...
Episode 6 - 1975
What a year: Muhammad Ali was the world heavyweight champion and he made four defences. Every time he got in the ring there was a story: som...
Episode 5 - 1974
It was a year of quite ridiculous extremes in fights for the heavyweight championship of the world – there were exotic stops in Venezuela an...
Episode 4 – 1973
It was called the Sunshine Showdown and it took place in January 1973 at the National Stadium in Independence Park in Kingston, Jamaica. 36,...
Episode 3 - 1972
Frazier had vanished. In 1971, he had beaten Muhammad Ali in the Fight of the Century: dropping the former champion in the 15th and final ro...
Episode 2 - 1971
Joe Frazier was the unbeaten World Heavyweight Champion and Muhammad Ali was the unbeaten former World Heavyweight Champion. It was a unique...
Episode 1 - 1970
At the start of 1970 Muhammad Ali was still in boxing exile, Joe Frazier was heavyweight champion of the world and he shared that title with...
1969
Steve Bunce's all-encompassing look back at the decade that shaped heavyweight boxing reaches its conclusion. Its 1969 and the politics and...
1968
It's 1968, and as Muhammad Ali continues his time in exile, Steve Bunce moves his attention to those still allowed in the ring as Joe Frazie...
1967
Welcome to 1967: the must-see fight of the year is between Muhammad Ali and the United States Army. Steve Bunce continues his tour through t...
1966
Steve Bunce's journey through the decade that made the heavyweight championship continues in 1966, as politics and sport begin to trade blow...
1965
We're halfway through the decade that defined the heavyweight championship. Welcome to 1965: the year Cassius Clay matures from boy to man....
1964
Steve Bunce talks us through what must be the biggest year in the biggest decade in heavyweight championship history: 1964. Casius Clay is u...
1963
It's 1963, and Steve Bunce is continuing our tour through the best decade in the history of the heavyweight championship. It's all here: eve...
1962
Welcome to 1962: Steve Bunce continues his tour through the best decade in the history of the heavyweight championship. Floyd Patterson fina...
1961
The year is 1961: We pick up our tour through the best decade in the heavyweight championship in Miami, where heavyweight champion Floyd Pat...
1960
The year is 1960: the boxing world is still pining for a champion like Rocky Marciano, a European holds the title for the first time but Flo...
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