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Muhammad Ali vs Canadian, George Chuvalo, at Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens in 1966. | The Flyer Vaults

George Chuvalo suffered his first stoppage defeat #OnThisDay in 1967 when he turned away in the fourth-round at Madison Square Garden. His face was a mess: badly cut and bruised and Joe Frazier was jumping up and down with the elation of victory. Mark Kram of Sports Illustrated reported: "The cut was shaped like a scimitar and it went to the bone (later it was discovered that the bone was broken, requiring surgery), and the eye, seemingly ready to burst, was just a slit. There was another cut on

With a two‐fisted assault, 21-year-old George Foreman scored a third-round stoppage of super-tough Canadian heavyweight George Chuvalo before a stunned crowd of 12,526 at Madison Square Garden #OnThisDay in 1970. But in keeping with his tradition of never having been knocked off his feet, 32-year-old Chuvalo took his punishment standing up. “He wasn't defending himself,” referee Arthur Mercante explained moments later. “He didn't do anything. He just was taking punishment.” Joe Frazier, the worl