'Aussie Joe': Champion boxer and loveable larrikin who fought Ali dies at 75

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Former heavyweight champion Joe Bugner, better known as ‘Aussie Joe’, has died in Brisbane aged 75. A boxing larrikin who once went toe-to-toe with Muhammad Ali, Bugner later made Australia his home. This video includes ACM-produced voiceover powered by AI.

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00:00You're the white boy that wants to make a name, are you?

00:03I said, yes, yes. I said, I'd like to spar with you.

00:05He said, is that right? Well, let me tell you something, white boy.

00:08Damn, you're ugly.

00:10Former heavyweight champion Joe Bungner, known to Aussies as Aussie Joe,

00:14has died in Brisbane, aged 75.

00:17Bungner became a household name in the 1970s when he fought Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier,

00:22earning respect as one of the few fighters to go the distance with both.

00:26I stopped Flower Palace twice.

00:28I stopped George Fulmer and Joe Bungner won't get away with it.

00:32And I'm out to stop Joe Bungner.

00:35After moving to the Gold Coast in 1986, Bungner embraced his larrikin image,

00:40staging multiple comebacks and winning the Australian heavyweight title in the 1990s.

00:45Bungner retired in 1999 with 69 wins, 13 losses and a draw,

00:51and is survived by his three children, James, Joe Jr and Amy.

00:56You're the ugliest white thing I think I've ever seen.

01:00Oh, hang on.

01:02Right, he says to me, he says,

01:04your mother must have cried when she had you.

01:06I said, that's it.

01:07I said, let me tell you something.

01:09You haven't met my sister.

01:10You haven't met my sister.

01:11I said, let me tell you something.

01:12Let me tell you something.

01:12I said, let me tell you something.

01:13I said, well, you know, let me tell you something.

01:15You haven't met my sister.

01:18You're the only one.

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