Cruiserweight is the old-fashioned British term for light-heavyweight. Seems strange that Louis would use it.
Not really arguing, because it's clear that Walcott didn't consider it a knockdown, and whether Patterson's glove brushed the canvas or not isn't...
I think the "knockdown" against McNeeley is at about 1:20 of the 4th round. You can't actually see it in the film because the camera is zoomed in...
I don't think there's any big mystery to that - within a couple of years Ali himself had admitted there was no such thing....
I think Foster claimed to have floored the young Clay in sparring and effectively knocked him out. Can't remember where I read that now.
I think Brian London gets slightly underrated. Not an extravagantly gifted boxer, but a decent, hard-working fringe contender. His mediocre...
Seems like until the 90s it was generally assumed that you were on the slide once you were past the age of 30. It's strange now to read reports...
Yes, Angelo made him sit back down. Which tells you nothing about the reason Ali stood up in the first place. You're actually telling me that...
Like a lot of the myths about Muhammad Ali, you only have to watch the film to see this isn't true. He never went walking off, he briefly stood...
But Ali beat Superman. Also Hun'Ya, champion of the Scrubb.
Is there a reason why we're counting O'Brien as a title fight opponent but not Al Kaufman?
According to the UPI summary of ringside verdicts, the US press was split 50:50 with the British press overwhelmingly scoring it for Ali....
It's just not accurate to say that "Wayne Bethea was beating Terrell then too". Terrell's split decision loss to Bethea was a year and a half...
It's hard to pin down what happened in the Sullivan-Sharkey bout, because there are reports that say Sullivan outscored him, but others which say...
Billed as an exhibition, apparently. Seems a little harsh to tack it onto the end of Ryan's record as a defeat....
