Spring Premier Auction 2015
Wed, Apr 8, 2015 08:00PM EDT - Mon, Apr 27, 2015 12:30AM EDT
Timed Auction
Lot 1125
RARE MUHAMMAD ALI VS. LEON SPINKS SEPTEMBER 15, 1978 ORIGINAL FIGHT POSTER AUTOGRAPHED BY MUHAMMAD ALI
Unsold
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On September 15 1978 former heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali found himself at the Superdome in New Orleans trying to win his title back from an upstart boxer named Leon Spinks. Spinks the 1976 Olympic Heavyweight Champion had surprised Ali seven months earlier by scoring a 15-round split decision over the champ in Las Vegas. This time around the 36-year-old Ali had enough gas left in the tank to stage a 15-round unanimous decision over the younger 25-year-old Spinks. Ali would go on to fight just two more times before retiring. This lot includes an oversized (19 wide by 25 high) color poster publicizing the event with both Spinks and Ali illustrated prominently with the foreground showing a Bourbon Street corner with a jazz band playing and the Superdome in the center. Ali has signed the poster with a fine-point black marker across the front of his white boxing trunks.
Pre-certified by PSA/DNA.
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