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#OnThisDay in 1960 18-year-old Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay) won the Olympic light heavyweight title in Rome.

“Earnie Shavers could punch you in the neck and break your ankle." - Tex Cobb Same could be said about Inoue by the look of it. 🥊

Ricky Hatton with Liam and Noel Gallagher. (2008) #Oasis

Happy #LeftHandersDay 🥊

Riddick Bowe and Lennox Lewis after their super heavyweight gold medal fight at the 1988 Olympics. #Olympics

Years before he was Mr Spock in Star Trek, Leonard Nimoy played boxer Kid Monk Baroni in his first lead role in a film. (1952) 🎬🥊

#OnThisDay in 1987 Mike Tyson unified the heavyweight division with a 12 round unanimous decision win over Tony Tucker. 🥊

Muhammad Ali at the World Cup final #OnThisDay in 1966. He was in the UK to defend his heavyweight title vs Brian London the following week. After being knocked out in the 3rd round by the champ London said, "I'd like a return, but only if you put a 50lb weight on each ankle."

#OnThisDay in 1977 middleweight great Carlos Monzon had his 100th and final professional fight before calling it quits when he outpointed Rodrigo Valdez over 15 rounds. Monzon had spent the last 7 years as world champion and gone unbeaten in his last 80 fights spanning 13 years.

This doesn’t sound popular judging by my timeline…Was it that bad?

Team GB boxing team (1924 Paris Olympics). #OlympicGames

During the 98th Olympics, in 388 B.C. a boxer named Eupolus bribed his 3 opponents to let him win. All four were fined and the fines paid for a row of bronze statues of Zeus called zanes with inscriptions explaining what had happened. #OlympicGames

The 1960 US Olympic boxing team. #OlympicGames