How many fights did Ali lose?

Ali's place in boxing history as one of the greatest fighters ever is secure. His final record of 56 wins and 5 losses with 37 knockouts has been matched by others, but the quality of his opponents and the manner in which he dominated during his prime placed him on a plateau with boxing's immortals.
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Who defeated Ali?

After his loss to Norton, Muhammad Ali went on a winning streak, which saw him defeat Joe Frazier, George Foreman, Ron Lyle, Ken Norton, Jimmy Young, and others. In 1978, he was challenged by Leon Spinks, who had just seven pro fights under his belt.
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How many times Ali knocked out?

Muhammad Ali was never knocked out in his wonderful 21-year professional career. He was however knocked down and sent to the canvas 4 times. But do you know who by? Read below to find out and watch the knockdowns too…
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Who is the hardest hitting boxer of all time?

1. Mike Tyson. Whenever there's a discussion about the hardest hitting boxer, Mike Tyson is always mentioned.
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Did Ali beat razors?

Muhammad Ali won a unanimous 15round decision last night in a rugged fight with Earnie Shavers to retain his world heavyweight boxing championship at Madison Square Garden.
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What was Ali's last fight?

Almost every headline described the former heavyweight champion as “the last man to fight Muhammad Ali”. His calling card in history. On December 11th, 1981, Berbick won a facile 10-round decision over a flabby Ali in a ring erected in a community baseball field in Nassau.
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Who is the best boxer of all time?

1. Muhammad Ali. The Greatest was not only one of the best heavyweights of all time, he was also one of the most colorful. He won the gold medal at the 1960 Olympics and went on to become the first boxer to win the heavyweight title three times.
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Who has the best boxing record ever?

Rocky Marciano

His undefeated record (49 wins with 0 losses) is something that has never been matched and is unlikely ever to be beaten – especially as he retired from boxing in his early thirties!
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Who was Muhammad Ali toughest opponent?

Earnie Shavers is the man Ali has called the strongest puncher he ever faced. Ali beat him by unanimous decision, with the judges scoring 9-6 twice and 9-5 once. Shavers kept coming hard for Ali through the late rounds, wining 13 and 14 on most cards.
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Has Muhammad Ali ever defeated?

Although there wasn't a knockdown, Holmes dominated, and all three judges awarded him every round. The only other time Muhammad Ali suffered defeat was on 11th December 1981, in a non-title fight against Trevor Berbick at the Queen Elizabeth Sports Centre in Nassau, Bahamas.
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Who never lost in boxing?

1. Rocky Marciano. The most famous boxer on this list is undoubtedly former heavyweight champion and hall of famer Rocky Marciano of Massachusetts.
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What boxer has the most losses?

Reggie Strickland holds the record for the most professional defeats. He fought a total of 363 times of which he lost 276. In this day and age most boxers don't even make it past 50 fights, so this is a record that will probably never be broken.
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Who is the goat in boxing?

Three-time World Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali is considered one of the world's greatest boxers. His professional record of 56 wins and five losses is unprecedented.
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Is Floyd Mayweather better than Ali?

Floyd Mayweather and Muhammad Ali. Floyd Mayweather has named his top five boxers of all-time, ranking Muhammad Ali behind him as fifth on his list. The 44-year-old boxer explained that Ali did not deserve a spot higher on his ranking as he only fought in one weight category.
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Who invented boxing?

Boxing is one of the oldest known sports today, with 2,000-year-old depictions on the walls of tombs in Egypt and stone carvings indicating that Sumerians—who lived in what is now Iraq—boxed at least 5,000 years ago. Boxing got its start as an exhausting and brutal spectacle.
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What was Muhammad Ali's last words?

— There were no final words from Muhammad Ali in the days leading up to his death, one of the famous boxer's former wives told USA TODAY Sports.
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What's Muhammad Ali's net worth?

At the time of his death in 2016 at age 74, Ali had an estimated net worth of $80 million, according to Forbes.
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How did Ali get Parkinson's?

Ali and Parkinson's

It's generally speculated that Ali's boxing career was linked to his development of Parkinson's. Wins turned to losses as his speed and agility suffered. By the time he took one of the greatest beatings of his life at the age of 38, the neurological symptoms were glaring.
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What gave Ali brain damage?

It is widely believed that the numerous head blows that he took over his boxing career led to Parkinson's disease. Ali reportedly took 200,000 headshots in the ring that contributed to him suffering brain damage much earlier in his career.
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Who hurt Ali?

Ali, meanwhile, hadn't been the same since his gruesome fight with Joe Frazier in 1975—the Thrilla in Manila. He should've been retired by 1977. He certainly should not have been fighting men like Shavers. Over and over, through fifteen rounds, Shavers hit Ali with sledgehammer blows.
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Did boxing hurt Ali?

Ali's condition, he added, was “very possibly” the result of blows to the head taken during his boxing career. Only an autopsy could say for certain whether boxing had damaged Ali's brain, according to Dr. Fahn.
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Which boxer has most belts?

Manny Pacquiao is the only boxer in history to have won twelve major world titles in eight different weight divisions. Pacquiao achieved the feat when he defeated Antonio Margarito via a unanimous decision to win the WBC super welterweight title on November 13, 2010 at the Cowboys Stadium, Arlington, Texas, USA.
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Who has the longest win streak in boxing?

1: Jimmy Wilde: 132-3

Wilde would fight an astonishing 28 times in 1911, finishing the year with a 27-0-1 record. By the end of 1914, he recorded the longest unbeaten record in boxing history of 93-0-1 - a record that still stands today.
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