George Louis ChuvaloCM OOnt (born September 12, 1937, as Jure Čuvalo) is a Canadian former professional boxer who was a five-time Canadian heavyweight champion and two-time world heavyweight title challenger. He is known for having never been knocked down in his 93 bout professional career including fights against Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, and George Foreman.[1][2] Chuvalo unsuccessfully challenged Muhammad Ali for the heavyweight championship in 1966. Chuvalo was inducted into the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 1995.[3]
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George Louis Chuvalo CM OOnt (born September 12, 1937, as Jure Čuvalo) is a Canadian former professional boxer who was a five-time Canadian heavyweight...
counter-punching mixed with an assertive boxing style. Foreman then defeated GeorgeChuvalo by technical knockout (TKO) in three rounds. After this win, Foreman...
contender throughout his career, beating other top contenders including GeorgeChuvalo and Chuck Wepner. He fought Heavyweight greats such as Muhammad Ali...
Ali traveled to Canada and Europe and won championship bouts against GeorgeChuvalo, Henry Cooper, Brian London and Karl Mildenberger. Ali returned to the...
Quarry won two bouts before meeting Canadian GeorgeChuvalo in December 1969. The bout against Chuvalo, then unranked, would be the subject of controversy...
a fine performance: defeating rated contender and Canadian champion GeorgeChuvalo, boxing technically better than expected, and later going the distance...
walked upon. His 1966 fight against GeorgeChuvalo was the subject of the 2003 documentary film The Last Round: Chuvalo vs. Ali. A decade later, The Trials...
number 1 contender in 1959. He beat top contenders such as Eddie Machen, GeorgeChuvalo, Oscar Bonavena, Henry Cooper, Bob Foster, Nino Valdez, Doug Jones,...
fights again, including top victories over Eddie Machen and GeorgeChuvalo; the Chuvalo match won The Ring's "Fight of the Year" award. Patterson was...
as WBA champion, he defended the title twice, beating Doug Jones and GeorgeChuvalo. Most in the boxing world continued to recognize Ali as the legitimate...
had been sparring partners in their early careers.[citation needed] GeorgeChuvalo also said Williams was one of the hardest punchers he had faced in his...
Dempsey, Joe Louis, Floyd Patterson and Gene Tunney, as well as contender GeorgeChuvalo all declared they considered the fight to be a fake. Some felt the knockdown...
1964 – Muhammad Ali KO 7 Sonny Liston I 1965 – Floyd Patterson W 12 GeorgeChuvalo 1966 – José Torres W 15 Eddie Cotton 1967 – Nino Benvenuti W 15 Emile...
perspectives of ten opponents he faced during his career: GeorgeChuvalo, Sir Henry Cooper, George Foreman, "Smokin'" Joe Frazier, Larry Holmes (also a former...
(TKO) of Canadian GeorgeChuvalo. No boxer had ever stopped Chuvalo, but Frazier, despite the stoppage, was unable to floor Chuvalo, who would never be...
the training, as Jesse Ferguson recalled Razor Ruddock (trained by GeorgeChuvalo,) Lennox Lewis and Michael Moorer's camps employed the same philosophy...
When Baer refused, the IBU sanctioned a bout between Charles and American George Godfrey for their title on October 2, 1935. Godfrey won via fifteen-round...
amateur-boxing.strefa.pl. Retrieved 29 March 2019. Did Earnie Shavers or George Foreman hit harder? Leroy Caldwell, who fought both, gives his take, an...
first fight I did with Ali", referring to the 1966 Muhammad Ali vs. GeorgeChuvalo Vancouver bout. During the 1980s, Arum became a driving force behind...
Canadian national boxing champion. GeorgeChuvalo was 43 years old when he retained the Canadian Heavyweight title over George Jerome in Toronto in December...
GeorgeChuvalo, Buddy Turman, and the former world light heavyweight champion, Archie Moore. He lost to Moore, Folley and London but beat Chuvalo, LaMar...