Matthew Saad Muhammad vs Dwight Muhammad | SFB

Questa sera celebriamo un altro anniversario di spessore: la conquista del titolo mondiale WBC dei mediomassimi da parte di Matthew Saad Muhammad, avvenuta il 22 aprile del 1979 alla Market Square Arena di Indianapolis ai danni dell'allora detentore Marvin Johnson. Saad Muhammad, che all'epoca si chiamava Matthew Franklin, e che avrebbe cambiato nome annunciando la propria conversione all'islam proprio in seguito alla conquista della cintura, aveva già battuto Johnson una volta due anni prima, m

48 years ago, Matthew Saad Muhammad (then Matthew Franklin) defeated Marvin Johnson by KO in round 12 of 12 to win the NABF light heavyweight title. Arguably the greatest 175lb fight of all time. #Boxing #History | BTR Boxing Podcast Network

Matthew Saad Muhammad's sixth defence of the WBC light-heavyweight title was not an easy one at Bally's in Atlantic City #OnThisDay in 1981. 28-year-old Vonzell Johnson staggered Saad Muhammad with a left hook in the first round and bloodied his nose in the second. Johnson showed a fine left jab that had the champion blinking. Saad Muhammad, frustrated and anxious, was swinging wildly at long range, his misses being punished by Johnson's counters. Although from the fifth round on, when Johnson's