Both stood 6’3″, but nearly everything else separated them. Ali traveled with an international promotional circus and commanded million-dollar purses. Dunn was a former paratrooper and working scaffolder who balanced his trade with professional boxing. Their meeting was not part of the original plan.
German promoters anticipated that Bernd August would win the vacant European championship and provide Ali with a German challenger. Dunn ruined the arrangement by stopping August in the third round at London’s Royal Albert Hall seven weeks before the Munich date.
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