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Ali's gloves, Frazier's jockstrap from famed 1971 fight go on sale

The jockstrap - expected to sell for $10,000 (7,693.46 pounds) - already met its minimum bid of $5,000 (3,845.75 pounds) bid by mid-morning, said Ken Goldin, owner of Goldin Auctions of Runnemede, New Jersey.

Ali's gloves, Frazier's jockstrap from famed 1971 fight go on sale
(Reuters)

No bids had yet been received for the gloves, which are expected to sell for more than $1 million, Goldin said.

The auction concludes with live bidding on Aug. 4.

"People used to make jokes about auctioning off jockstraps as an example of something outrageous," Goldin told Reuters. "Here we got one consigned for sale."

The memorabilia went on sale just over a month after Ali's death at an Arizona hospital at age 74. Frazier died in 2011.

Both fighters were undefeated when they met up in the match on March 8, 1971, at Madison Square Garden in New York. Frazier defeated Ali in a unanimous, 15-round decision.

After the fight, Frazier gave the jockstrap to cornerman David Wolf, according to Goldin. Wolf, who was in the Frazier corner for all three of his fights with Ali, later became a manager for Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini and other boxers.

The jockstrap was found in Wolf's apartment in New York after his death in 2009.

Minimum bids were set at $5,000 (3,845.75 pounds) for the jockstrap and $250,000 (192,263.10 pounds) for the gloves.

"Similar (Ali) gloves have sold in the millions,” Goldin said. "And that was before he died."

(Reporting by David DeKok in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; editing by Barbara Goldberg and G Crosse)


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