Mar 21, 2013 - Sale 2308

Sale 2308 - Lot 536

Price Realized: $ 531
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(SPORTS--BOXING.) ALI, MUHAMMAD. Ali Frazier Philippines 1975. Color poster by Leroy Neiman, 21-3/4 x 14-3/4 inches, framed. Des Moines: Veterans Memorial Aud. (1970)
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scarce and attractive poster for a local viewing (in this case des moines iowa), via closed circuit television of the legendary "thrilla in manila." Closed circuit was a phenomenon peculiar to the 1970's, wherein people could see a live fight on a large screen half-way around the world. The "Thrilla in Manila" was the third and final famous boxing match between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier for the Heavyweight Boxing Championship of the World, fought at the Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines on October 1, 1975. The contest's name is derived from the frequent Ali rhymed boast that it would be a "Killa and a Thrilla and a Chilla, when I get that gorilla in Manila". Ali won by a TKO, after Frazier's manager had the fight stopped at the end of round 14.