London (Reuters)
The white shorts that Muhammad Ali Clay wore during the epic “Thriller in Manila” fight with his rival, Joe Frazier, have been put up for auction, and are expected to sell for more than six million dollars.
The Sotheby's auction house said that the shorts that Muhammad Ali wore in the fight that took place in the Philippines in 1975, which ended with his victory, and which was considered the end of a trilogy between the two stars, perhaps considered the most wonderful in the history of boxing, will be put up for auction until April 12 of this year.
The house added that the pants were sold at auction in 1988, after they were extracted from the storage locker of Drew “Bundini” Brown, Muhammad Ali’s assistant coach, after his death, for about a thousand dollars, and after that they continued in the auction market, and the last time they were put up for auction was in 2012. , when it sold for just over $150,000.
In light of high afternoon temperatures in the Philippines, the boxing world witnessed a fierce fight when Muhammad Ali and Frazier faced off for the third and final time in their struggle engraved in the annals of sports history, and Muhammad Ali retained the heavyweight title at that time.
After the fight, which was considered the most difficult in his career, Muhammad Ali said that it was the time he felt close to death the most.
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