Episode 4 – 1973

Yahoo Sport Presents: The History of the Heavyweight Championship

Jun 3, 201923:00Society & Culture

It was called the Sunshine Showdown and it took place in January 1973 at the National Stadium in Independence Park in Kingston, Jamaica. 36,000 people came out for the massacre – nobody in the fight game could believe wh...

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