http://www.ringtv.com/blog/2650/a_piece_of_philadelphia_boxing_history_dies_with_briscoe/ “I’m buying tickets right now to go to the funeral,” Muhammad said toward the end of our conversation about Briscoe. I asked him why he would fly from Las Vegas, his home, all the way to Philadelphia for the funeral of a long-ago opponent. “I have to. A guy like Bennie, you have to pay your respects,” Muhammad said.
In '72, I tend to believe that he would have become champ were it someone other than Monzon that he was fighting.