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Boxing News / Bloody Knockout / August 6

Muhammad Ali knocked out rival in three rounds, whose wife bizarrely claimed, ‘I don’t mind if he beats my husband’

On this day: Muhammad Ali destroyed a fighter whose wife wasn’t opposed to him losing the bout. In his career, ‘The Greatest’ proved himself to be one of the best trash-talkers to have ever held a microphone.

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