George Foreman Fights Five

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Maple Leaf Gardens

Even though the day’s main event was Toronto’s Clyde Gray versus American Sammy Rookard, history remembers American boxer George Foreman on this night. Six months after losing the heavyweight title to Muhammad Ali, Foreman appeared in Toronto to fight five journeymen… consecutively over the course of an hour. Whatever Foreman thought he would prove didn’t matter. The crowd booed him, and Ali mocked him from the ringside, where he was working as a commentator alongside legendary journalist Howard Cosell. The action was sloppy, disjointed, and forgettable. Cosell called it “the weirdest thing you will ever see.” Whether this was the reason or not, Maple Leaf Gardens never hosted another boxing event.  

1975

George Foreman Fights Five

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