Cassius Clay vs Sonny Banks - February 10, 1962 - Round 1, 3 & 4

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  • Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
  • Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) vs Sonny Banks
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    Cassius Clay fights the great left-hooker Sonny Banks. In the first round Cassius Clay went down for the first time in his professional career.
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    Their records at the time:
    Cassius Clay: 10-0
    Sonny Banks: 10-2

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  • @uncjim
    @uncjim 10 років тому +18

    Dundee said when Sonny caught Clay with the left hook that put him down, he saw Clay's eyes roll back in his head. When he hit the canvas, he instantly woke up. According to Angelo, this was when he knew what he had in Clay. This is a fabulous upload.

    • @stevenyourke7901
      @stevenyourke7901 3 роки тому

      @Chris Tasse You gotta give Wepner credit for having a lot of heart. He could take a huge amount of punishment. How can you not love a fighter they called The Bayonne Bleeder? He said Sonny Liston was the most intimidating fighter he ever fought. “Every time he hit me he broke something!” Ha!

  • @quantumo2099
    @quantumo2099 4 роки тому +2

    You gotta love Ali! His belief in self was true. We, African Americans, ALL need this.

    • @grzegorzk1177
      @grzegorzk1177 4 роки тому

      You African - American need be good at school. doing great in maths, biology, chemistry, ok.

  • @ELVIS1975T
    @ELVIS1975T 11 років тому +8

    The interview at the end was so sweet. Such details make you relive history, or have a kind of time-travel.

  • @uncjim
    @uncjim 12 років тому +5

    What a sharp shooter the young Cassius Clay was. These pre-championship clips display the early genius that would become Muhammad Ali. Great upload. Thank you.

  • @gamalelzoghaby5549
    @gamalelzoghaby5549 5 років тому +6

    رحمك الله ايها ايها القدوة باخلاقك وعبقريتك الفذة التى وهبها الله لك فكنت خير سفير للاسلام بين الامريكان عنجهية الرجل الابيض كنت من حطمت تلك الاسطورة وسيقى اسمك بين الاخيار

  • @Gigantor60
    @Gigantor60 4 роки тому +2

    Actually the fight was stopped to late. Really hard to see the carnage in black and white films, but believe me Banks face was battered

  • @musiclover59
    @musiclover59 13 років тому +5

    Amazing. Ali walks in at 1:04 and is on his ass in 1:06. The Banks punch that was responsible is among the fastest in heavyweight history. Ali didn't see it coming. Ali no doubt learned from this as he went on to do this to his opponents many times in years to come.

  • @alyjulmiste1880
    @alyjulmiste1880 5 років тому +4

    I felt it should have beek stopped sooner. Ali was looking like, why isn't this ref stopping this fight

  • @syourke3
    @syourke3 10 років тому +6

    Ali was already saying "I am the greatest" in 1962, two years before he won the heavyweight crown. That kid was something else! Awesome boxing skills, intelligent, funny and extremely handsome, to boot. Truly unique.

  • @thalmusscantlebury9696
    @thalmusscantlebury9696 5 років тому +3

    Sonny Banks died in 1965 three days after being knocked out in a fight by Leotis Martin in Pennsylvania maybe the ref saw something and stopped this fight.

  • @micheltanguay6413
    @micheltanguay6413 8 років тому +8

    What a strange moment for the referee to stop it. Needles to say Frazier took a page out of Sonny Banks book to stop the great one in 1971

    • @Bobby-fj8mk
      @Bobby-fj8mk 8 років тому +2

      A bit controversial but the ref can see more than we can with this old footage.
      It was probably a good decision.

    • @WadeStOnge-tr7cw
      @WadeStOnge-tr7cw 4 роки тому +2

      Ruby Goldstein was heavily criticized for what was perceived as an early stoppage, which is why he hesitated a month later to stop the Griffith-Paret fight, which tragically resulted in death. Only reffed once more after that. Better to stop a fight too early than too late.

    • @Chaos1214
      @Chaos1214 4 роки тому +2

      It might look a premature stoppage, but the ref is up close, and can see things the spectators can't. Probably saw some reaction from Banks that didn't look good.

  • @boxingjos
    @boxingjos 14 років тому +1

    Thanks for sharing this with us

  • @afrikan1641
    @afrikan1641 6 років тому +6

    People have to understand what Ali was fighting for, that man fought amongst ancestors and so did David when he he beat Goliath. Frazier once said in an interview “It was as if voices spoke to him, I dont know where these things were coming from. “ most fighters knew exactly what Ali was fighting, this man was no regular person. Love Ali, Champ!

  • @drummerboy1545
    @drummerboy1545 4 роки тому +2

    Ali opponent tried his best they need to just give Ali the win! RIP champ!

  • @Williamottelucas
    @Williamottelucas 3 роки тому +1

    "I'm supposed to be the greatest" even when he is boasting Ali is humble, at least at that age!

  • @Kidfunkadelic77
    @Kidfunkadelic77 12 років тому +5

    Dundee's lesson for this fight was don't go out with a hooker. Meaning don't through your left hook with a guy who is a big left hooker. ali rarely used his left hoof throughout his career. He when he did used could be quite effective as he stopped Oscar Bona
    vena with a left hook. He sought to counter with his right lead.

  • @miftahulhidayah2661
    @miftahulhidayah2661 4 роки тому +1

    Khususon bapak Muhammad Ali...
    Al - fatihah

  • @stevenyourke7901
    @stevenyourke7901 3 роки тому

    I think Cassius Marcellus Clay is a pretty cool name! Sounds like a Roman nobleman!

  • @arealmench
    @arealmench 4 роки тому +1

    The punch that put Clay on the canvas looked just as weak as the Clay punch that put Liston on the canvas. Thats why I don't think the second fight with Liston was fixed. ..Btw, this fight with Sonny Banks was stopped to soon.

    • @TheBatugan77
      @TheBatugan77 4 роки тому

      It was fixed.
      C'mon man. C'mon.

  • @stwads
    @stwads 6 років тому +3

    Why was it stopped ? Banks was losing but he didn't look hurt!

    • @atlien1988
      @atlien1988 2 роки тому

      Black and white and the graininess of the film makes it near-impossible to tell just how badly Sonny was getting beaten. His face was battered afterwards and right before the ref steps in, he was wobbly on his legs.

  • @stevenyourke7901
    @stevenyourke7901 3 роки тому

    Banks was badly beaten but he has the rare distinction of having knocked down Ali. Only two other men - Henry Cooper and Joe Frazier - could make that claim.

  • @douglaslowry8702
    @douglaslowry8702 4 роки тому

    OH, the dominance, the perpetuity, the magnificance

  • @russellcampbell9198
    @russellcampbell9198 6 років тому +2

    Clay/Ali could take a punch and recover as well as any heavyweight. I am amazed that it was thought that one punch from Liston and that would be the end of him.

    • @douglaslowry8702
      @douglaslowry8702 4 роки тому +1

      Liston "needed" clay

    • @dempsey9554
      @dempsey9554 4 роки тому

      Liston dernt hit him watch the fight. Liston through very powerful left hooks that was ment to miss

  • @LeviJohansen
    @LeviJohansen  14 років тому +1

    @flarbton how come?

  • @blipco5
    @blipco5 3 роки тому

    I never understood the strategy of blocking punches with your face.

  • @bobsmagula2292
    @bobsmagula2292 4 роки тому

    Ruby Goldstein showed great concern for Sonny Banks and perhaps stopped the fight a bit prematurely. Yet just six weeks later, RG froze in the same ring at Madison Square Garden as Emile Griffith rained punches on the defenseless and doomed Benny "Kid" Paret. Benny never regained consciousness and died ten days later. I wonder if criticism of the earlier stoppage played a role in RG's indecisiveness later.

  • @douglaslowry8702
    @douglaslowry8702 4 роки тому +1

    I was There!

  • @ettawing5955
    @ettawing5955 5 років тому +1

    01:05 . . . 01:06 it was a left hook to the chin but Muhammad Ali got right back up.

  • @mybrotherkeeper1484
    @mybrotherkeeper1484 9 років тому +6

    As I've heard said before, "The referee must have earned thousands with this stoppage." In this case, I suspect the referee must have put up money on a 4th round stoppage.

    • @ismailabdelirada9531
      @ismailabdelirada9531 5 років тому +4

      Suspecting things is all well and good. Do you have any evidence to support this suspicion, or is it yet another wacko internet conspiracy theory?

  • @lusianaratna4366
    @lusianaratna4366 Рік тому

    Clay could not get up if it was Tyson's left hook

  • @wymple09
    @wymple09 4 роки тому

    Stopped too early, but Ali was torturing Banks pretty bad. Banks got in one good shot, and then paid for it.

  • @ettawing5955
    @ettawing5955 5 років тому +2

    01:05 knockdown 01:08 right back on his feet.

  • @rashaddbaker5399
    @rashaddbaker5399 4 роки тому

    Why did the ref stop the fight? Sonny was clearly still responsive, but Ali was tagging him, rip to the greatest

    • @atlien1988
      @atlien1988 2 роки тому

      He was mostly standing on will. If you notice right before the ref steps in stop the fight, Sonny appears wobbly on his legs.

  • @rovsanhumbatov4907
    @rovsanhumbatov4907 5 років тому +1

    Ali Great

  • @ELVIS1975T
    @ELVIS1975T 11 років тому +2

    I did.

  • @FURYxPulsar
    @FURYxPulsar 4 роки тому

    Muhammad Ali 🖤

  • @douglaslowry8702
    @douglaslowry8702 4 роки тому

    No! George didn't ... KNOW!

  • @AbdulAbdul-wo8vl
    @AbdulAbdul-wo8vl 4 роки тому +1

    يا حبيب المسلمين، عليك رحمة الله وبركاته

  • @lee1990lee
    @lee1990lee 13 років тому +1

    im sure everytime ali hit the deck it was a left hook no to sure but i no this cooper and frazier was

    • @dempsey9554
      @dempsey9554 4 роки тому

      Yes you are right all left hooks

  • @James-Campbell
    @James-Campbell 5 років тому +2

    Ali would've won this fight but to stop it like that makes things look more than suspicious!

  • @LeviJohansen
    @LeviJohansen  14 років тому +1

    @boxingjos You're welcome. Remember to subscribe!

  • @douglaslowry8702
    @douglaslowry8702 4 роки тому

    When we changed how to use

  • @douglaslowry8702
    @douglaslowry8702 4 роки тому

    Did George know?

  • @douglaslowry8702
    @douglaslowry8702 4 роки тому

    LIVE!

  • @douglaslowry8702
    @douglaslowry8702 4 роки тому

    I loved the way you stood strong,my dad hated you; saying you "cut" fighters with your 'laces'

    • @zmiru
      @zmiru 4 роки тому

      What made him say that?

  • @douglaslowry8702
    @douglaslowry8702 4 роки тому

    You did, cut

  • @dr.anonymous7479
    @dr.anonymous7479 3 роки тому

    1:05

  • @douglaslowry8702
    @douglaslowry8702 4 роки тому

    HowWeird Cosell, I don't know how Mohammed Ali can ...

  • @krisguillen50
    @krisguillen50 4 роки тому

    Anyone else hear the punches at 1:24 or am I crazy

  • @ettawing5955
    @ettawing5955 5 років тому +1

    Combined gross annual income will reach millions of dollars for this twenty year old.

  • @DavidGee51
    @DavidGee51 10 років тому +1

    1:05 "I am the greate...OW! WHAT THE HELL?"

  • @denissssss8579
    @denissssss8579 6 років тому +2

    No problems for Ali in that fight

  • @MG-io4on
    @MG-io4on 4 роки тому

    Imagine if that was a hook from Tyson! Ali came along at the right time. He lost 3 times to Norton

  • @alihashimi9158
    @alihashimi9158 5 років тому +1

    Muhamad Ali champ

  • @douglaslowry8702
    @douglaslowry8702 4 роки тому

    I ,an most were "listening to"... according to how-weird-cosell; we Thot he "KNEW" some kinda stupid, if George was King

  • @douglaslowry8702
    @douglaslowry8702 4 роки тому

    Boing!boing! Boing nangangang!

  • @douglaslowry8702
    @douglaslowry8702 4 роки тому

    Really?

  • @douglaslowry8702
    @douglaslowry8702 4 роки тому

    Ha hah