Muhammad Ali vs. Richard Dunn
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Muhammad Ali | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 24 May 1976 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Venue | Olympiahalle, Munich, Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Title(s) on the line | WBA, WBC and The Ring undisputed heavyweight championship | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tale of the tape | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Ali wins via 5th-round TKO | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Muhammad Ali vs. Richard Dunn was a professional boxing match contested on 24 May 1976, for the undisputed heavyweight championship.[1] This fight would mark Ali's 37th and final knockout win of his career.
In the build up to fight, Dunn appeared on the popular ITV program This Is Your Life in which Ali appeared via video message to taunt Dunn, saying "So you've taken 67 parachute drops, well, I want you to mark this down now: you have one more big drop to come, a big hard drop, it's going to be the longest sharp drop you've ever had."[2][3][4][5][6]
The fight
Dunn would start the fight on the front foot chasing Ali, who would land a number of overhand rights early. A pair of lefts from Dunn landed in the third; however, Ali scored a knockdown with a right later in the round. Dunn would taste the canvas twice more in the fourth and once early in the fifth before a windmilling right from Ali sent Dunn down for the fifth and final time, prompting referee Herbert Tomser to wave the contest off.[7]
The fight is remembered for being the last time Ali won by stoppage, and also for being the last time he knocked down an opponent.[8] The punch Ali used to knockout Dunn was taught to Ali by Taekwondo Grandmaster Jhoon Rhee. Rhee called that punch the "Accupunch", which he learnt from Bruce Lee. Rhee was Ali's head coach for this Dunn fight.[9]
