🥊On March 4, 1968 Joe Frazier takes his record to 20-0 and captures the vacant NYSAC World Heavyweight Title when he stops Buster Mathis in the 11th Round with a TKO at Madison Square Garden. Mathis came into the bout 23-0. The bout was the main event on a card that also included the third meeting between Emile Griffith and Nino Benvenuti.🥊 | Davenport Sports Network

On This Day In 1968 Unbeaten Olympic gold medalist "Smokin'" Joe Frazier won a postion of the heavyweight championship left vacant by Muhammad Ali's exile when he captured the NYSAC heavyweight title with an 11th round TKO of Buster Mathis at Madison Square Garden in New York. Through ten rounds, Frazier, a 2-to-1 favorite, seemed to be ahead. He'd been given trouble by Mathis' skills and movement at times, but he went to the body well and wore the bigger man down. In round eleven, Frazier conne