{"id":111569,"date":"2025-09-01T20:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T20:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/111569\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T20:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T20:31:10","slug":"legendary-boxer-and-actor-joe-bugner-dead-at-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/111569\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Boxer and Actor Joe Bugner Dead at 75"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Boxer Joe Bugner<br \/>\n                          Dead at 75 &#8230;<br \/>\n                          Fought Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier<\/p>\n<p>\n                        Published September 1, 2025 12:55 PM PDT\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>Joe Bugner &#8212; a boxer who competed for more than three decades and squared off against some of the greatest to ever do it &#8212; has died.<\/p>\n<p>The former fighter died at his home in Brisbane, Australia the British Boxing Board of Control announced in a statement Monday &#8230; sharing condolences with his family.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20250901_7bd32b06735045678dc684c1c01c8dc0\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:e8a9f3a7-9fdf-462a-b135-cf969e23d57a\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/7bd32b06735045678dc684c1c01c8dc0_md.jpg\" alt=\"joe bugner sub getty swipe 3\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bugner was born in Hungary but moved to England when he was six years old &#8230; and, he started boxing professionally in 1967 when he was just 17.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Bugner rose to become the British and European boxing champion by the early 1970s &#8230; and, though he lost 12-round decisions to both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/muhammad-ali\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Muhammad Ali<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/joe-frazier\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Frazier<\/a>, his performances earned him respect from around the boxing world. He later fought and lost to Ali during a 1975 world championship bout.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20250901_fa787eb10f6640e09d96bd2472129196\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:e8a9f3a7-9fdf-462a-b135-cf969e23d57a\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/fa787eb10f6640e09d96bd2472129196_md.jpg\" alt=\"Muhammad Ali fights Joe Bugner  sub getty swipe\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joe later made a career comeback in 1995 to win the Australian heavyweight title at the age of 45. He finished his career with a 69-13-1 &#8230; attaining 41 of those victories by knockout.<\/p>\n<p>While perhaps most known for his time as a boxer, Bugner also boasted an impressive film r\u00e9sum\u00e9&#8230; including a part in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/jean-claude-van-damme\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jean-Claude Van Damme<\/a> classic &#8220;Street Fighter&#8221; and a series of Italian movies with Bud Spencer.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20250901_36541e27c2b346d3a5bd05c79f704387\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:e8a9f3a7-9fdf-462a-b135-cf969e23d57a\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/36541e27c2b346d3a5bd05c79f704387_md.jpg\" alt=\"joe bugner sub getty swipe 2\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joe was 75.<\/p>\n<p>RIP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boxer Joe Bugner Dead at 75 &#8230; Fought Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier Published September 1, 2025 12:55 PM&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,44,85,635,26898],"class_list":["post-111569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-tmz-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}