45 Years Ago Today, Ali's Last Hurrah......

The fight that should never have happened, but unfortunately had to happen.

 

A horrible.....horrible event,Fergy. A fight that,even after all this time,I have never been able to bring myself to watch. With the exception of one or two snippets on the Champions Forever film.

 

I never watched it live or near enough the time it happened, it wasn't til years later on YouTube.
I'll tell you what mate, I only watched a couple of the first round,that was enough for me.
How the hell it went as far as it did with Holmes just jabbing away and Ali covering up on the ropes, I'll never know.
Like you said Stevie, horrible fight.

 

An absolute nightmare,Fergy. The Berbick-Ali fight was n't QUITE as painful to watch. After hearing the result on the radio the morning after the fight and hearing that Muhammad was at least competitive with Berbick,I watched it on TV later on that day. Once was enough. Same applies to Joe Frazier in that comeback fight with Floyd Cummings. I never felt the need to watch it again.