Thanks everyone for your input, & for the videos. I now feel better educated on the subject of this thread. Cheers all.
I had to post this, just for Ali's great speech about 'ole 'Enry at the start. http://youtu.be/NtzDhGlQexQ
Its hard to tell what would have happened if there'd still been 30 or 40 seconds left of the round. Possibly Ali may have been able to hold on...
He was pretty dazed, though. But he still did well to be able to get up so quick. Shows that his legs were still working, & his mind was still...
"And you'll have to save me a place at the bar, Cassius. I don't know how long it will take for them to stitch up my eyebrow after the cut you...
Cooper primed Ali for it as well.
I'd say Ali improved after his mistakes in the Cooper fight. He knew how dangerous Lison was, & would have prepared for it, physically & mentally....
I think he's even luckier there was only two seconds left of the fourth round.
I see what you mean, having watched heerko's video. Ali did have problems against hooking fighters. Cooper had him all over the shop with those...
Thanks for that, heerko. Watching that, Cooper did catch Clay with several left hooks before the knockdown. Clay was way too audatious. Like I...
True. But I do remember from a clip of that round that Cooper caught him with a couple of hooks before that knockdown one. Possibly he'd already...
Those answers do make some sense. I suppose any fighter can have a slightly 'off' day, just the same as any of us can with our jobs. I agree...
I have often thought about this; How was Ali so badly stunned against Henry Cooper, when he took murderous bombs off the likes of Joe Frazier,...
Well I'm a bit confused as to how he managed to be overweight on the day of the fight myself, as he seemed to train hard. He spent the last week...
But that one was at super-middle, and I don't think Benn was quite as fierce at that weight until his later days at it, and Eubank was stronger....
