38K views · 599 reactions | 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 | Facebook

60K views · 1K reactions | Matthew Saad Muhammad retained his WBC light-heavyweight title #OnThisDay in 1980 with a fifth-round knockout of Cameroon's Louis Pergoud at the Halifax Metro Center in Nova Scotia. #boxing #boxingnewsandhistory #boxinghistory #boxingnews #matthewsaadmuhammad #louispergoud #saadmuhammadpergoud | Boxing News and History | Facebook

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#OnThisDay in 1980, Matthew Saad Muhammad stopped Yaqui Lopez in the 14th round 🤯 | Top Rank Boxing

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