Overview

• Muhammad Ali was declared the winner when Joe Frazier’s trainer Eddie Futch stopped the fight between rounds 14 and 15 at Araneta Stadium in Quezon City on Oct. 1, 1975.
• The bout is widely ranked among boxing’s most punishing contests, fought in searing heat with both men pushed to exhaustion.
• Ali later said it was the closest he had come to dying, and he collapsed after rising to celebrate the victory.
• Retrospectives detail how the event was bankrolled and showcased by President Ferdinand Marcos, with a 10 a.m. local start tailored for an estimated global TV audience of about one billion.
• Some accounts recount Ali telling Angelo Dundee to cut off his glove late in the fight, a request described as an expression of how spent he felt even as Frazier’s corner stopped it.