"The Night the Unstoppable Was Stopped" Joe Frazier vs. Muhammad Ali – Madison Square Garden, March 8, 1971 | Bibiano Fernandes

🥊On February 16, 1970 NYSAC Heavyweight Champion Joe Frazier defeated WBA Heavyweight Champion Jimmy Ellis by RTD in the 4th Round in front of 18,079 fans at Madison Square Garden. The bout was also for the vacant WBC and The Ring Magazine Heavyweight Titles. Las Vegas bookmakers listed Smokin' Joe as a 6 to 1 favorite.🥊 #SmokinJoe | Davenport Sports Network

On This Day In 1970 Joe Frazier succeeded Muhammad Ali as the undisputed world heavyweight champion with a fifth-round stoppage Jimmy Ellis at Madison Square Garden. The fight ended when Ellis, who had been dropped twice in the fourth round, was kept on his stool by Angelo Dundee, as the bell rang for the fifth round. Ellis was down early in the fourth round, and he barely got up at nine. Another hook put him down again, and though he again was up at nine and Dundee had seen enough. #Boxing #His