Muhammad Ali Clay wore short shorts in the fight that took place in the Philippines in 1975 and ended with his victory. It was considered the end of a trilogy between the two stars that is perhaps considered the most wonderful in the history of boxing.
I posed Sotheby’s Auction House The white shorts he was wearing Mohamed Ali Klay During his epic “Thrill in Manila” bout with rival Joe Frazier, on Thursday, it will go up for auction, and is expected to fetch more than six million dollars, as reported. Reuters”.
Muhammad Ali wore short shorts in the fight that was held in the Philippines in 1975 and ended with his victory. It was considered the end of a trilogy between the two stars, perhaps the most wonderful in the history ofboxing The pants will be on auction until April 12.
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Sotheby’s Auction House added that the pants were sold at auction in 1988 after they were extracted from the storage locker of Drew “Bundini” Brown, Muhammad Ali’s assistant coach, after his death, for about a thousand dollars, and after that they continued on the auction market, and the last time they were put up for auction was in the year 2012, when it sold for just over $150,000.
In light of high afternoon temperatures in the Philippines, the boxing world witnessed a fierce battle when Muhammad Ali and Frazier faced off for the third and final time in their struggle engraved in the annals of sports history, and Muhammad Ali then retained the heavyweight title.
After the fight, which was considered the most difficult in his career, Muhammad Ali said that it was the time he felt close to death the most.
