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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and London, UK. 29th June, 1st July 1975, 18th June 1973
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 1st July 1975
1. 00:00 Joe Bugner and Mohammed Ali press conference after their fight in Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 29th June 1975
2. 00:10 promotional sign for Joe Bugner v Mohammed Ali fight in Malaysia
3. 00:15 Bugner training and meditating in ring for Ali fight
London, UK. 29th June 1973
3. 00:38 Brugner with Joe Frazier
4. 00:46 Bugner and Frazier interview
SOURCE: Associated Press
DURATION: 00:59
STORYLINE:
Joe Bugner, a heavyweight who took boxing greats Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier the distance in fights in the 1970s, has died. He was 75.
The death of the Hungary-born Bugner, who was also a British citizen, was announced Monday by the British Boxing Board of Control, which said he died at his care home in Brisbane, Australia.
Bugner struggled to gain affection in Britain after sending national treasure Henry Cooper into retirement with a contentious points win in 1971 to capture the British, Commonwealth and European titles.
He lost those belts later in the year but was European champion again by the time he fought Ali for the first time, in 1973, in a non-title fight in Las Vegas.
Ali won on points and Frazier did the same five months later in a fight at Earl’s Court in London.
Bugner met Ali for a second time in 1975, on that occasion a world-title fight in Kuala Lumpur, and the American again won on points in a bout over 15 rounds.
A boxing career spanning 32 years ended in 1999, by which time he had relocated to Australia — where he spent the final years of his life in a care home after being diagnosed with dementia.
Bugner was affectionately known as "Aussie Joe" in his last few years as a boxer.
Bugner, who was a child refugee when he moved to Britain after his family fled Hungary amid the 1956 Soviet invasion, won 69 of his 83 fights, 41 inside the distance.
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