{"id":66186,"date":"2016-03-09T21:03:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T02:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=66186"},"modified":"2016-03-08T21:36:53","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T02:36:53","slug":"boxing-hall-of-fame-frazier-vs-ali-i-45-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=66186","title":{"rendered":"Boxing Hall of Fame: Frazier vs. Ali I 45 years ago today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=66187\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-66187\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-66187\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/MSG-boxing-ring-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"MSG boxing ring\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/MSG-boxing-ring-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/MSG-boxing-ring-150x93.jpg 150w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/MSG-boxing-ring-400x249.jpg 400w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/MSG-boxing-ring.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>(Canastota &#8211; March 8)\u00a0<\/em>Today marks the 45th anniversary of the historic \u201cFight of the Century\u201d between heavyweight legends Muhammad Ali and \u201cSmokin\u2019\u201d Joe Frazier that took place at Madison Square Garden in 1971. In one of the greatest fights in boxing history, Frazier scored a 15-round decision to retain the world heavyweight championship and become the first man to defeat Ali.<\/p>\n<p>The world famous ring that the Hall of Famers bravely fought in is now on permanent display in Canastota. The 82-year-old ring that was used at the \u201cMecca of Boxing\u201d from 1925 to 2007 was donated to the Hall by Madison Square Garden in 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Canastota &#8211; March 8)\u00a0Today marks the 45th anniversary of the historic \u201cFight of the Century\u201d between heavyweight legends Muhammad Ali and \u201cSmokin\u2019\u201d Joe Frazier that took place at Madison Square Garden in 1971. In one of the greatest fights in boxing history, Frazier scored a 15-round decision to retain the world heavyweight championship and become [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22367,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}