Ali"s worst opponent ?

Dunn had no chance but he tried his heart out and shook Ali at least once with a straight left. Coopman was a human punching bag and fell to the canvas from pitter patter blows.

 

Greetings again Houdini. I believe it was Eckard Dagge (the German) who Dunn stopped to earn the shot against Ali. Dagge said, before the bout, that he wouldn't face Ali, had he won, because he didn't feel he was in his class.
Dunn should have taken the same advice.

 

No one is disputing Dunn was not in Alis class....neither was Coopman. Again at least Dunn tried.

 

Coopman,Dunn,Evangelista,Wepner....these guys could not come close to today s top 10 and throw in Leon and London

 

In his thirst fight with cooper, cooper knocked ali down and cooper would have koed ali in next round if alis trainer dundie had not riped alis glove to buy extra time and he also used smelling saltes witch if they had been found out ali would have been disqualified straight away. So the only reason ali wuon that fight is becouse they cheated. Angelo dundie admitted that is the only reason ali won in aan interview. Plus ali was 2 stone heavier and a lot younger. So henry cooper was simply just better than ali

 

Seriously - does anyone in the world not realise the truth behind the Cooper 'extra time' myth by now?

 

Ali trainer angelo dundee admitted it himself watch the interview and watch the footage

 

A good question to ask the tiny dwindling band who still cling to the myth: can they find a single contemporary source from 1963 which says anything about Ali getting extra time to recover?

The answer is no they can't. The story mysteriously pops up in 1966 during the build-up to Cooper's world title shot. Considering Cooper was generally given almost no chance of lifting the title, a story that he was cheated in the first fight certainly did the promotion no harm.

 

Whether or not Ali got extra time may be debatable, but the illegal use of smelling salts is not.

 

But the idea that he could have been disqualified for doing something which was both allowed and commonplace in rings all over the world is a fantasy. That has never happened. Jose Napoles, for instance, used smelling salts in a fight in London in the 70s and they were simply confiscated.

 

Don't lump Evangelista in with the rest of those. :nono

 

Still, better than Liston in Maine.

 

Has to be Coopman, especially since he was intoxicated at the time.

 

Good post. Lubbers performance was n't bad at all,considering

 

Bernd August