Top heavyweight boxing matches which were fixed
Liston/Clay I
Sonny Liston established himself as the best ever heavyweight boxing champion up to that time. His sparring partner was George Foreman. There is no way that Liston would have lost to Clay on that night.
www.youtu.be/WIxox24A4Vocalvinayre.com/2014/02/27/sports/fbi-report-alleges-first-ali-liston-fight-was-fixed/"KO of Sonny Liston up in Maine in May 1965...I was there....when Liston hits the deck from Clay's "Phantom Punch"...that "punch" wouldn't have crushed a grape...watch Liston on the floor..Sonny took a dive in both of their fights!!.I've seen better acting in the WWF/WWE...Ali a big puncher?...no...he never planted his feet...always flitting around the ring."
"Liston headed into the fight as a heavy favourite and despite Clay’s confidence and bravado, most experts were picking a one-sided victory for the current heavyweight champ, but that would soon change when Clay began to dominate the fight in the early rounds. What happened next was even more shocking.
At the end of the sixth round, Liston, sitting on his chair hearing advice from his trainer, spat out his mouthguard, and inexplicably quit the fight. He refused to come out for the seventh round, making Cassius Clay the new heavyweight champion of the world.
How on Earth could this loudmouth 22 year kid have made the unbeatable Sonny Liston give up the title by quitting? You have to remember, Liston was not only the Heavyweight Champion but also the scariest and meanest man on the planet. His awesome power and baleful stare sent chills down the spines of not only his opponents but of almost anyone who was in his presence. To the public in 1964 this outcome just didn’t make sense."
Liston/Ali II
"Following the controversial ending from their first meeting, it was revealed that both fighters had a rematch clause in their contract, meaning that the loser of the fight could demand a shot at redemption. This would immediately provoke more claims that the fight was indeed fixed.
Regardless of the accusations, the public were hugely anticipating the rematch, and the fight was set for the Boston Garden. But soon enough, it was also surrounded by controversy, well before the first bell was rung.
Despite the ever-growing controversy, the fight immediately found a new venue in Lewiston, Maine – a town with a population of just 41,000 people, and an arena capacity of 4,900. However, the fight was watched by millions of viewers all around the world.
Ali, who had changed his name from Cassius Clay following their first fight, was his usual confident self and claimed he would once again make easy work of Liston. But not even he could have predicted how easy the rematch would be.
One of the shortest title fights in boxing history was finished barely two minutes into the opening round, when Ali struck Liston with what seemed to be an accurate yet harmless punch.
Now known as the ‘Phantom Punch’, this immediately sent Liston to the floor and when he got up, the referee surprisingly decided that the punch was enough to damage Liston and called off the fight.
The small, yet vocal crowd in attendance was outraged, booing, throwing objects into the ring and chanting “Fixed!”. "
bleacherreport.com/articles/1972999-fbi-reportedly-had-extensive-investigation-in-possible-fix-for-ali-vs-liston-iListon would have defeated all of the heavyweight champions of the 70s, 80s, and 90s with the possible exception of Tyson (1986-1988 with Rooney in his corner).
Foreman\Ali (Rumble in the jungle)
As soon as Foreman got off the plane, he was called "George the Belgian". As he was getting off the airplane, Foreman was accompanied by a german shepherd.
"The German Shepard was one of the primary breeds of dogs used the the Belgium police when Zaire was Controlled by Belgium. The Black populace associated the breed with the forces that oppressed them. When Foreman walked off the plane and was always seen with those dogs, it made Ali a the "Hometown Hero" and Foreman a symbol of white oppression."
Does it make any sense for Foreman to display such insensitivity? Or to accept to fight Ali in Zair? Of course not.
Foreman had frightening punching power (see his fights against Frazier and Norton), and yet again, Ali would prevail against the heaviest hitting champion of his day.
"As much as I hate to say it, the fight was fixed. In gambler's circles, people knew the exact round Forman was going to lose down to the exact time in the round. The fight was in Zaire. Who the hell has a fight in Zaire? Look at how loose the ropes on the ring were for their fight, that is a dead give away. Ali was able to lean far enough back so as to not feel the full force of those punches. Forman admits that some of the water he drank during the fight tasted of medicine. Use logic for a moment. Forman beat Frazier with relative ease, twice. Hell, he hit Frazier so hard, Joe left his feet. This was the same Joe Frazier that beat Ali then fought two epic battles with him. George destroyed Kenny Norton, with ease. He hit Norton so hard, that Kenny bounced off the ring ropes and back towards Joe. Those ring ropes were regulation. How did Ali do against Norton? Foreman's guilt was the reason why he left the fight business a few years after the Ali fight.
Why do you think Michael Moore stepped right into that jab by Foreman? That was boxings way of paying him back. Listen, I want to believe in the Ali Forman fairy tale. It is a great story but, it was a set up."
external-preview.redd.it/GGFUbCcXxQ-tepsOQFahL9Gm3CLJBdvKn_CDhXVb9DE.jpg?auto=webp&s=ba5367189d8215f9a5d1a4969ddc4b30b0ade38e"If Ali wins the fight, it's been fixed," football legend Jim Brown.
"You the only one who could see the fix. Where there’s big money, there’s always cheating. Foreman was offered huge money to lose. No fighter will ever admit being involved in a fixed fight. They would never get another fight and the damage to their reputation is immense. Foreman was deliberately missing and pulling his punches. It was an exhibition that fooled a lot of people. Don King was the promoter, a known cheat. He knew Ali was the money spinner in boxing, so Ali had to win. He probably promised Foreman a rematch, then double crossed him. Foreman can say what he likes. If it had been a real fight, Ali would have ended up like Norton and Frazier."
Tyson/B. Douglas
books.google.ro/books?id=9oi6NlcvsOkC&pg=PT137&lpg=PT137&dq=vader+at+tyson+douglas+fight+in+tokyo&source=bl&ots=fjQe5O8ADN&sig=ACfU3U0uZ1rQXXlP7IDWu81fY36yIGhfNQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjw-eyRo8LrAhXtlosKHZbBDpgQ6AEwH3oECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=vader%20at%20tyson%20douglas%20fight%20in%20tokyo&f=falseThis is the reason Tyson partied all night before the fight, or why he hardly put up any offense for some eight rounds. Even the controversial count of Douglas was staged to perfection, a referee who made the unpardonable and unprecented error of not properly counting the time.
