Editing Boxing in the 1970s (section)

==1971==
*March 8 – The ''[[Fight of the Century]]'': before a jet-set crowd that included [[Cher]], [[Frank Sinatra]], [[Woody Allen]], [[Mia Farrow]], [[Diana Ross]] and others, [[Joe Frazier]] drops [[Muhammad Ali]] in the fifteenth round and wins a unanimous decision to retain the world's Heavyweight title, at New York City's [[Madison Square Garden]].
*March 16 - In what turn out to be [[Henry Cooper]]'s final fight, he lost to [[Joe Bugner]] in a controversial 15-round decision as Bugner became the British, Commonwealth and European heavyweight champion in Cooper's hometown of [[London, England]].
*April 3 – In the last chapter of the Olivares-Castillo trilogy, [[Rubén Olivares]] recovers from a knockdown to regain the world Featherweight title with a fifteen-round unanimous decision over [[Chucho Castillo]] in [[Inglewood, California|Inglewood]].
*May 9 – [[Carlos Monzón]] retains his title with a three-round knockout of [[Nino Benvenuti]] in [[Monte Carlo, Monaco]]. It is Benvenuti's last fight.
*June 4 – [[José Nápoles]] recovers his world Welterweight title with an eighth-round knockout of [[Billy Backus]] in Inglewood.
*July 26 – Former world Heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali beats his friend and gymmate, former Heavyweight champion [[Jimmy Ellis (boxer)|Jimmy Ellis]], by a knockout in round twelve in [[Houston]].
*August 9 – [[Rodrigo Valdez]] beats [[Bobby Cassidy]] by ten round unanimous decision in New York, but gets infected with [[Hepatitis]], which Cassidy did not know he had before entering the ring. Both boxers then enter quarantine.
*September 25 – Carlos Monzón retains his world Middleweight championship with a fourteen-round knockout of multiple time world champion [[Emile Griffith]] in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
*November 5 – [[Pedro Carrasco]] becomes Spain's second world boxing champion, beating [[Mando Ramos]] by an eleventh round disqualification in [[Madrid, Spain]] to take the [[World Boxing Council|WBC's]] vacant world Lightweight title. This bout was extremely controversial; Ramos was disqualified because, after Carrasco hit the deck in round eleven, the referee decided to declare Carrasco the winner because he didn't know if Carrasco had been felled by a punch or a push.