Offered are the signatures of five heavyweight boxing legends – Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, George Foreman and Larry Holmes - on a full-color poster of the five champs in tuxedos, red Everlast boxing gloves hanging off their shoulders, with the legend “Champions Forever” in red block letters with blue borders at the bottom. 

The top row of the photograph depicts, from left to right, Ken Norton, George Foreman and Larry Holmes.  The bottom row depicts Joe Frazier, seated, looking over at Muhammad Ali, also seated, “making a face” at Frazier. Each of the champions have signed their name in gold marker over their respective image in the 16x20-inch poster. The poster is mounted in a red paper matte with black border, set within a 20x24-inch black metal frame with glass.  

Norton held the WBC heavyweight title in 1978. He is best known for his trilogy with Ali, in which Norton won the first fight by split decision and lost the latter two fights by split and unanimous decision, respectively.  Foreman won the world heavyweight title with a second-round knockout of then-undefeated Joe Frazier in 1973. Two successful title defenses were made before Foreman's first professional loss to Ali in "The Rumble in the Jungle" in 1974. Holmes held the WBC heavyweight title from 1978 to 1983, The Ring magazine and lineal heavyweight titles from 1980 to 1985 and the inaugural IBF heavyweight title from 1983 to 1985. Holmes is one of only five boxers—along with Frazier, Norton, Leon Spinks and Trevor Berbick—to defeat Ali. Frazier reigned as the undisputed heavyweight champion from 1970 to 1973. In 1971 he defeated the challenger, Ali, in the highly anticipated Fight of the Century. Two years later, Frazier lost his title when he was defeated by Foreman. He fought on, beating Joe Bugner, losing a rematch to Ali and beating Quarry and Ellis again. Frazier's last world title challenge came in 1975, but he was beaten by Ali in their brutal rubber match, the Thrilla in Manila. Ali won the world heavyweight championship from Sonny Liston in a major upset at age 22 in 1964. He remains the only three-time lineal champion of that division. His joint records of beating 21 boxers for the world heavyweight title and winning 14 unified title bouts stood for 35 years. He was involved in several historic boxing matches and feuds, most notably his fights with Frazier, such as the Thrilla in Manila, and his fight with Foreman known as The Rumble in the Jungle which has been called "arguably the greatest sporting event of the 20th century.” This item comes with a full LOA from PSA/DNA (V09412).

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