WHO WAS THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE WOOOORRRRLD....WHEN YOU WERE BORN???

Poster Called Broadway Joe ORIGINALLY Came Up w/the Concept Back in the Day on SecondsOut and REED Whips it Out Every Sooooo Often...

New Crop of Posters, So Let's REVISIT It...

Sadly, as an Ali Disciple, JOE FRAZIER was Heavyweight Champion By the Time REED Was Born...

REED's Sooo Old, There were ONLY 2 Sanctioning Bodies, Just 10 Divisions (Jr. Welter and Jr. Lightweight Were Added to the Original 8) and Most of the Champions were Undisputed...

Soooo Best of Luck to You SPLINTERED Titles, 3 & 4 Belt Era Ass Motherfuckers!!!...



REED

 

For Shits & Giggles, Here's Other PROMINENT Reigning Undisputed Champions @ the Time REED was Born...

Bob Foster, Carlos Monzon, Jose Napoles and Ken Buchanan...


REED

 

WBC: Larry Holmes

WBA: Mike Weaver

IBF was 1-1 1/2 year away and WBO was years away…

 

September 26th 1980

 

Before Dokes "stopped" him in like 5 seconds? I remember watching that PPV crap.

 

Had to look it up. It was Holmes as the IBF and Lineal, Coetzee and Witherspoon were the other two beltholders.

 

Oct 11, 1972

I'm guessing Ali or Frazier or maybe Foreman.

 

Larry Holmes for me. I was born in 1981.

 

Ali's second reign!

 

Larry Holmes

Mike Weaver had just taken out John Tate for the WBA title

 

Same here, shortly before the jimmy young fight

 

Leon Spinks and Holmes

 

Gene Tunney

 

It was Frazier

 

It was Jack Johnson when Muzse was born.

 

It was 3 months before Foreman beat Frazier in Jamaica for the title

 

It might be common knowledge here but I just read it. The reason Frazier's fights were in weird locations is because he had to avoid states with strict medical exams for licenses. His eye was damaged to a point he couldn't pass a basic eye test. He wanted to keep fighting and didn't want to sideline his career with retinal surgery.

 

Really? I heard it was because Dick Saddler owed options on Foreman for any fight that took place on the US Mainland. Hence Foreman fought in The Bahamas, Venezuela and Africa.

 

Seven days after I came into this world, MIKE TYSON demolished Tyrell Biggs to retain his titles. I remember at the time thinking, "hey, this kid is pretty special".

 

Ali, his first time as champion.