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The digital remastered fight is on ESPN/ABC. 50th anniversary! Awesome. Just got through round 1.

50 years???
I was in 7th grade. I remember it was the talk of the school, students and teachers.

Recall that. Only scene that sticks in my memory was when Frazier knocked Ali into the next time zone.

My Dad,Brother and i watched it i was 10 years old.

saw it was 12 at the time.

Loved to watch Smokin' Joe, especially when he kicked Ali's arse.

Think I was 9 years old. I think I watched all Ali's fight that were on tv, don't remember seeing him as Cassius Marcellus Clay

I was a huge smokin’ Joe fan

It was labeled as the fight of the century. I really enjoyed watching the show today with the commentaries and Howard Cosell.

I remember watching this on Wide World Of Sports.
Couldn't believe it!

I remember the fight and all the lousy footage of it over the years. The digital enhanced version is a treasure, that was truly an epic contest by two true champions, a pinnacle, a total summit of the sport. Only some of Sugar Ray's fights have come close to the same greatness, and only briefly. But it was wonderful in the re-mastered version, where for the first time, we can WATCH and SEE.

Me, too. Got a couple of signed photos of Smokin' Joe that he sent me after Frazier-Ali I. Anybody but me remember Joe's musical group: "Smokin' Joe and the Knockouts." Good memories.

There is an interesting movie released in 2020 titled One Night In Miami which depicts a fictionalized meeting in 1965 between Malcolm X, Cassius Clay, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown. How Malcolm X had recruited Clay into The Black Muslims and was trying to recruit Brown and Cooke.

L.W.

Watched it in Tucson AZ - was age 33. Rarely do I bet on anything, including sports, but the rabid Cassius Clay fans were so uppity and rowdy leading up to the fight, I could not resist. I had seen Joe in training earlier in the year - that left hook started at his hip and was a crusher. I did not bet that he would knock Clay out, but for the win was an easy bet. Collecting was social fun. Clay was never "the greatest" - neither was Muhammad Ali .

I remember all those Ali fights. My brother and I followed boxing, especially heavyweight boxing, very closely at that time. I don't follow it much anymore, but he still does.

I’ve watched it on YouTube several times, crappy quality Hopefully the remastered version will be uploaded.

That fight had to do permanent damage to both of them.

That fight is considered the greatest by a lot of people, but I’d rather watch Ali vs. Forman. “Rumble in the jungle “. Ali was the kaperdick of his era, but he at least had talent, unlike kaperdick. Watching Ali-Forman is eye opening to Ali’s hand speed, my hell he could throw a combo as fast as a lightweight, you’d miss it if you blinked.

listened to it on the radio as a youngster.

Tyson Fury is worth watching, he saved boxing IMO. Funny bugger too. Pull up his fights with wilder on YouTube, good stuff.

I remember it well,