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Joe Bugner, a former truck boxer who fought Muhammad Ali twice in his career, has died.
Bugn was 75 years old.
“It is with great sadness that the former British heavyweight champion of Commonwealth and the candidate for the world championship Joe Bugner died at his care home in Brisbane, Australia,” said the British Boxing Board of Control on Monday.
“The British Boxing Board of Control transmits its condolences to Joe’s family.”
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The American boxer Muhammad Ali (L) and British boxer Joe Bugner are fighting in a match. Ali won the 12 -round fight in 1975. (Getty)
Bugn was a talented boxer, but he was not in the good graces of those of his native Britain after sending Henry Cooper, a boxing legend to the Commonwealth, retired after having beat him in 1971. The victory gave him the British titles, of the Commonwealth and Europeans. Bugn did not keep these belts after having lost them later in 1971.
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He then faced Ali for the first time in 1973 when they entered the ring in a titleless fight in Las Vegas. Bugn was able to go to the distance against the boxing icon, although Ali would obtain victory by points.
Barely five months later, Bugner was in the ring against the legendary Joe Frazier, this time on home soil in Earl’s Court in London. As the fight against Ali, Bugner was able to go to the distance, but he failed while Frazier won by points.
The American boxer Muhammad Ali appears on the verge of the word at the British boxer Joe Bugner (on the left) after the fight of buging with Santiago Alberto Lovell at the Royal Albert Hall in London in December 1974. Bugner had beaten Lovell. (Evening Standard / Hulton Archive / Getty Images)
The most exciting fight, however, took place between Bugner and Ali in Kuala Lumpur in 1975, the second time he was fighting. In front of a crowded crowd, bugling and Ali made 15 complete laps on the web, although the first came out as loser by points.
Bugner fought for 32 years, ending his career in 1999 before moving to Australia. He spent the last years of his life in an assisted living house after receiving a diagnosis of dementia.
Bugn went 69-14 on its 83 fights, 41 of which ended inside the distance.
The British-Australian boxer of Hungarian origin, Joe Bugner, rests his gloved hands against the rope at the edge of the ring, November 21, 1972. (Terry Disney / Daily Express / Hulton Archive / Getty Images)
Bugn was a boxer born in Hungary who moved to Great Britain as a refugee in the middle of the Soviet invasion of 1956.
