Boxing quiz: how much do you know about heavyweight fights?

David Haye takes to the ring at the O2 Arena. Photograph: Ian Walton/Getty Images

1. How did 38-year-old Henry Cooper lose his last fight, against Joe Bugner in 1971?

   1. By knockout in the first round

   2. By knockout in the 15th round

   3. By one point

   4. By a quarter-point, 73.5 to 73.75

2. What turned the heavyweight title fight between Frank Bruno and Lennox Lewis in 1993 into a personal rivalry?

   1. Their coaches fought each other in a bar in London a week before the bout

   2. Lewis threw objects towards Bruno during a press conference

   3. Bruno said Lewis was "not British" and that "nobody cares about Lennox Lewis in Britain"

   4. Bruno claimed Lewis' team had not done enough work to sell the fight

3. David Haye won the WBA heavyweight title when he beat Nikolai "the Beast from the East" Valuev in 2009. What height is Valuev?

   1. 6ft 4in

   2. 6ft 10in

   3. 7ft 2in

   4. 8ft 1in

4. How did Lennox Lewis beat Vitali Klitschko in their "Battle of the Titans" heavyweight title fight in 2003?

   1. Lewis knocked the Ukrainian out in the last round

   2. The doctor stopped the fight because of a cut above Klitchko's eye

   3. Klitchko's trainer through in the towel in the last round

   4. Lewis won a split decision on the judges' scorecards

5. Anthony Joshua has won all 18 of his professional fights by knockout. What has been his longest fight as a pro?

   1. Third round

   2. Fifth round

   3. Seventh round

   4. 10th round

6. Muhammad Ali's third fight with Joe Frazier – the Thrilla in Manila – is considered one of the best of all time, but why was Frazier left disappointed at the end?

   1. He had bet his mortgage on a victory

   2. He had promised to retire if he lost and had to step away from the sport

   3. His trainer had stopped the fight against his will before the last round

   4. Ali won on points when Frazier's corner thought he was ahead

7. In which film did Tony Bellew star as "Pretty" Ricky Conlan?

   1. Bleed for this

   2. The Boxer

   3. Southpaw

   4. Creed

8. After Tyson Fury beat Wladimir Klitschko to become the world heavyweight champion in 2015, what song did he sing inside the ring?

   1. Rule the World by Take That

   2. Baby by Justin Bieber

   3. Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen 

   4. I Don't Want To Miss A Thing by Aerosmith

9. Mike Tyson's second fight with Evander Holyfield has become known as "The Bite Fight" but how was it marketed before Tyson took a mid-match snack?

   1. "The Night of the Nineties"

   2. "The Holy Reckoning"

   3. "When Worlds Collide"

   4. "The Sound and the Fury"

10. Which of these heavyweights was not born in London?

    1. Frank Bruno

    2. David Haye

    3. Dereck Chisora

    4. Lennox Lewis

Solutions

1:D - Referee Harry Gibbs awarded the fight to Bugner by the now abolished quarter-point margin. The decision was booed and commentator Harry Carpenter asked: "How can they take away the man's titles like this?", 2:C - Lewis responded by saying: "What was I supposed to do? Not follow my mother to Canada? Look, I've fought more British fighters than that guy has. He makes a fool of himself, dressing up in girls' clothing on television.", 3:C - Valuev remains the tallest and heaviest heavyweight champion in boxing history., 4:B - They discussed having a rematch but Lewis decided to retire. "Lennox promised me but his mum decided he wasn't going to fight," said Klitschko in 2010. "He invited me to London, without managers. He said he wanted to talk just together. I came to the room and his mum is there. We talked for two hours and his mum was looking at me and scanning me. After that I went away and he called me a couple of hours later and said, 'Sorry, but no'. I felt it wasn't his decision. His mum decided.", 5:C - Wladimir Klitschko might prove more of a test when the pair meet in April., 6:C - Frazier shouted "I want him, boss," to his trainer, who replied: "It's all over. No one will forget what you did here today." Ali later said: "Frazier quit just before I did. I didn't think I could fight any more.", 7:D - Bellew was very impressed by his co-star, Sylvester Stallone. "For a man of his age, the shape he's in is unbelievable, said Bellew. "He works very hard, a lot of hours. The guy is still doing Rambo movies. At age 68, I expect to be strapped to the couch with the remote control like Jim Royle. , 8:D - Sorry for reminding you., 9:D - The Sound and the Fury is, of course, the title of a novel written by the American author William Faulkner., 10:C - Lewis represented Canada at the 1984 Olympics but he was born in London. Dereck Chisora was born in Zimbabwe

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