IS HE THE GREATEST EVER?! First Time Reacting To Muhammad Ali - All Knockouts of The Greatest!
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- Welcome back, sports fans! Today, we're stepping into the boxing ring to witness the power and prowess of Muhammad Ali with our first-time reaction to "All Knockouts of The Greatest." Known for his incredible skill, charismatic personality, and profound impact on the sport, Muhammad Ali has long been celebrated as one of the greatest boxers of all time. Join us as we watch some of his most legendary knockouts and discuss his legacy in the world of sports.
⭐️ WHAT WE EXPLORE IN THIS VIDEO:
Our live reactions to Muhammad Ali’s most iconic knockouts, showcasing his speed, agility, and strategic genius.
Discussing Ali's boxing style, his famous tactics like the "rope-a-dope," and how he dominated the sport during his peak.
Reflecting on Muhammad Ali's cultural impact, not just as a sports figure but as a global icon who influenced politics, culture, and activism.
Sharing our thoughts on the debate around Ali being the greatest boxer of all time and what his legacy means to the sporting world.
🥊 ABOUT MUHAMMAD ALI & "ALL KNOCKOUTS OF THE GREATEST":
Muhammad Ali, also known as "The Greatest," was an American professional boxer known for his electrifying fights and poetic trash talk. This compilation, "All Knockouts of The Greatest," covers his most stunning victories in the ring, offering a glimpse into the power and grace that made Ali a legend.
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A Great boxer, activist and all around Man, RIP Muhammad 1/17/1942 - 6/3/2016
One of my friends was also a boxer called "The Pink Cat" Scott Walker who passed at 34 at 1/34/2004
Don't know about Ali?
Inconceivable!
Clay was racist to his core & we all know this mannnnn……
Ali wasnt known for his Knockout power it was his speed resilience agility and mastery of boxing in the ring that made him one of the GOATS
They don't mention that Floyd Patterson was a two time heavyweight champion in fact he was the first heavyweight champion to regain the title and like Ali was an Olympic gold medalist.
and trained by Tysons trainer Cus D'amato.
Ali missed his prime and was banned from boxing because he refused to be inducted into the armed forces. As a result, he did not fight from March 1967 to October 1970-from ages 25 to almost 29.
Yeah, he was a coward. He should have been sent to prison, and banned forever from boxing.
@@1980bwc Hardly a coward, you must be thinking of Trump.
@1980bwc I wouldn't fight for a country that made me sit at the back of the bus or wouldn't let me drink from a public water fountain.....seriously, would you??
Their's no way "Ali would have been expected to fight against the Vietnamese. In hindsight he could have been a great morale booster for his fellow countrymen. Unfortunately he let himself down, many great athletes including boxers served their nations.
@@md4933they told him he would be doing exhibition bouts, basically being paraded around like a puppet. He wasn't going to allow them to use him to gain support for a war that had nothing to do with him and people of color who were expected to fight for rights they weren't afforded at home. He took a stand for his people and that's what helped make him "The People's Champ"
Thx! No ref wants to be responsible for a boxer’s death. He’s the one who can clearly see the fighter’s eyes and ability to defend himself.
Maybe but definitely sparked some controversy about wether or not those fights were rigged. Especially the 2nd Liston vs. Ali fight with the infamous "phantom punch."
he could talk the talk and walk the walk!
Ali was 6' 3". I think he was about 220/225 pounds.
He had 61 fights as a professional...he won 56 of those fights, and he won 37 by KO.
Ali fought some of the greatest heavyweights of all time (I don't use that phrase often...I try not to say things like "the Goat"), Joe Frazier, George Foreman, Ernie Shavers, and the list goes on. I mention Shavers because Ali once said Ernie hit him harder than anybody he ever fought. Ali gave all of his opponents a nickname; he called Shavers the Batman. Ernie Shavers had 70 KOs in his professional boxing career. Ali said Shavers hit so hard that you'd feel it through your whole body no matter where he hit you.
Ken Norton broke Ali's jaw in the second round of their first bout, and the fight still went 12 rounds; that was the second loss of Ali's career.
Check out some information on Roberto Duran if you're interested in the history of boxing. Duran was amazing. There's some good stuff on YT about him. Sugar Ray Leonard, too.
Best Boxing Match Ali-Frazer 3 Thrilla in Manilla🥊
The Frazier -Ali fights are great to watch
I don't feel like the movie does justice to magnanimity of Muhammad Ali must react to his video clips on youtube
On the second Liston fight, you can't see the punch that send Liston to the ground because the cameras at the time were to slow to catch that fast punch thrown. There is footage of it, where they polished up the old footage to make it visible. A very quick punch to the chin.
No not really?
The GOAT!
Ali was the Greatest!
An interesting piece of trivia. Chuck who fought a great fight against Ali in 1975 inspired the character of Rocky Balboa .
The greatest. Period.😊
Technical knockouts generally occur when the guy being knocked out cant respond back to the referee
Ali was the greatest !!!
My boxing hero.
The best fight was his war of words with Howard Cosell a sportscaster. They made each other famous.
For some years Ali was the most recognized face on the planet.
Ali was famous for not taking a lot of shots to the head. I'm sure this video will speak about it. He had a move that was called Rope A Dope, where he would back up to the ropes and hold his gloves up over his face. He could stand there and take body shots all day.
Ali best ever --
Legend👊🏻👊🏻🎀
Ali was a friend of Elvis Presley and said he was “the Elvis of boxing.” He spoke at Elvis’ memorial service. Elvis gave him a bejeweled robe and they were fast friends.
I had the honor of meeting him at Michael Jordan's restaurant in Chicago. What great time for me.
What you got to remember is the ref is in the ring with the fighters. If he looks into a man's eyes and sees no on is home, he has to stop the fight or somebody could die. If he deems a fighter is no longer capable of defending himself, he must stop the fight too. Most fighters are willing to keep fighting no matter how badly hurt they are, and that can lead to tragedies. We may not agree with every decision made by the ref, but we must respect it.
At one time he was considered to be the most famous person in the world.
What made Muhammad great, before his 3 1/2-year absence because he refused to be drafted, was his footwork that enabled him to get small angles on his opponent wherein he could hit his opponents but they couldn't hit him, his unmatched ability to take a punch, and his determination. His ability to overcome adversity is what I think made him better than Tyson in their primes. Muhammad was 6foot 3inches tall & weighed 213-220 pounds in his best fights in his prime.
Do the Trple crown races of Secretariat 1973. Each race track progresses in length by 1/4 of a Mile. Secretariat was the most perfect athlete in history! Its AMAZING to watch
Nobody outside of America has heard of Secretariat. There have been much better champion racehorses from Europe and Australia known around the world.
@@Derry_AireThat is a load of crap. Secretariat's times in the Triple Crown has never been topped, by an American, Australian, or European horse...never.
@@allenwhitmer8192 Typical insular American and putting words into other peoples mouths. I never said his times had been topped. There are triple crown races in countries all over the world pal, the first starting in Great Britain in 1809 when the 2,000 Guineas was added to THE Derby and the oldest British classic horse race, the St Leger, running since 1776. No American horse has ever won any of the worlds 'other' triple crowns (Maybe in Canada as it's on dirt whereas in the rest of the world they're ran on the far superior turf). Other horses have won big races in multiple countries, not just their own back yard - I mean, could Secretariat even make a right turn at speed? I doubt it.
Almost everyone knows Muhammed Ali, very few people have heard of Secretariat, so why bother doing a video?
FAR from the best video/doc on Ali's iconic career.
I can remember when he took Liston for the title. I was in bed listening to the fight on my transistor radio hidden under my pillow.
They didn't show any of the third fight with Joe Frazier but it is possibly the greatest fight in boxing history. Joe didn't answer the bell in the 15th round and Ali was very grateful. Well worth your time watching the documentary on this fight.
Ali was smart, very charismatic and in his own words "Too pretty" to lose. In "The Rumble in the Jungle", Ali stood 6'3" and 214 lb. while George Foreman was 6'4 weighing in at 218. Foreman was much stronger, built like a truck and threw sledge hammer punches. Ali knew he couldn't beat Foreman in an even exchange of punches so Ali got into Foreman's's head whispering smack "They told me you could punch, George!" and "They told me you could punch as hard as Joe Louis.". When Foreman connected with what he thought would be a knock out punch in the 7th round Ali whispered "Is that all you got?". Ali then, against the advice on his corner, laid on the ropes and let George exhaust himself throwing punches in the heat and humidity until he became too arm weary to fight, and then Ali finished him. The Zaire crowd was also on Ali's side after George had brought his German Shepherd dog along with him, a hated symbol of police oppression. Tyson was a beast but Ali was indeed The Greatest.
He said he was so fast he could switch off the bedroom light switch, and be in bed before the light went out.
He Floats like a ButterFly & Stings like a Bee....=))
The fight you’re looking at when you stopped to talk about the knockouts and brain damage; this is only a short clip. If you could see the entire fight you couldn’t help but see the difference in class and skill. This poor guy was getting pounded solid over and over and had no chance of striking back. To continue would have been cruel. You’ll never hear this guy’s name ever again. This is still very early in Ali’s career.
Ali was a conscientious objector. Unlike some other celebrities (like Jim Morrison, whom I despise) he wasn’t a draft dodger and he didn’t flee the country to avoid service. Having the courage of his convictions, Ali showed up on draft day and then refused to step forward for induction. There’s a difference. The US Supreme Court eventually ruled for him a couple of years later.
In an interview with Howard Cosell in NYC shortly after the ruling, Cosell asked him if he thought he could still draw a crowd. Ali told him he would go out in the street right then and there and not speak a word and if he didn’t stop traffic before he got to the corner he would retire and never fight again. He didn’t get half way to the corner and it took 3 hours to disburse the crowd and untangle the traffic jam he caused. True story. No sh!t. There is video footage to prove it. ❤
Chuck Wepner= Rocky.
The greatest of all time indeed, incredible boxer and so much more, wiki him if you were not there in the 60s & 70s, his is an incredible life.
Also a shout out to the Hagler - Hearns Middleweight Championship fight, 8 minutes of pure ferocity and the best fight I ever saw live, electric even on you tube decades later. Enjoy!
The greatest of all time
Sor sure, but not for the knockouts... watching him avoid being hit by Sonny Liston over and over and over is showcases why he is the greatest.
@@user-gt2uf8cq9y you're being a bit disingenuous towards "sonny"..Its clear from the getgo that Liston was being manipulated by his connections, the real sonny Liston never showed up on both occasions when he fought "ali"..
@@md4933 Sounds like you have not watched the first fight. Liston simply could not hit him. Liston missed and missed and missed, and then for only about the third time in his career he got hit and hit and hit. As a bully, he couldn't handle it and quit. The first fight also featured putting the junk on Liston's gloves to blind Ali. Ali won a brilliant victory over the next best fighter around, plus the cheating that Liston's corner had previously used as Cleveland Williams and maybe others.
@@user-gt2uf8cq9y you're comment reinforces what I said, Listons tactics were void he was a ghost.And while you're on the topic of "bullying" clay vs terrell. I'll wait for an answer?
@@md4933 To what?
The ref probably saved several lives in these early fights
I have no idea whether or not you are a reader of books, but--in my opinion, "King of The World" (David Remnick) is one of the best written about him.
It chronicles Ali's life during the transformative "lost" years; in which he was not allowed to fight; and shows how he was transformed into the globally-beloved, world-famous icon that he eventually became.
Ali's contribution to humanity went well beyond the boxing ring.
R.I.P. champ. 🌹🌹
And...thank you.
Love Ali. I haven't read the book, but I'm intrigued.
Ali can be said to have had 3 stages to his fight career, the early years when his hands and feet were as fast as a top middleweight, the comeback years after his banning, heavier and stronger, in which he had the majority of his greatest and most popular fights (now a hero, not just an amusing/obnoxious loudmouth), and the declining years when he should not have been fighting, and his head became a punching bag. In the early years he often won on cuts which he partly facilitated by sometimes twisting his punches at the moment of impact. In Zaire against the unbeatable world champion George Foreman, Ali figured out early that he had to let George, in the high heat and humidity, pound on him and that would wear Foreman out. Ali took the punishment and then pounced when the right moment arrived. Smart fighter.
Uncredible how he moves.
Ali o maior de todos
I do recommend the movie Ali. I don't see many people talk about it, but I think it was very, very good.
You do have to wonder about some of the ref decisions, fights being stopped early. I'm an old guy from the UK and Henry Cooper was our hero. I think Ali said the first fight with Henry was one of his toughest. He would Henry was one of the few to every put him on the canvas. No doubt Ali was a great boxer.
There was a movie made in the 1970's called The Greatest. Ali played himself as an adult. There was an explanation in that movie about the reason behind his refusal to accept induction into the army. Of course, he was Muslim and was going for conscientious objector status, but he also pointed out that when he registered for the draft, he was classified 1Y (eligible for military service only in the event of declared war or national emergency). After he became champion in 1964 he was reclassified draft status 1A (immediately eligible for military service) without being retested.
The first Ali match I saw as it happened was the first All vs Frasier in 1971.
After he beat George Foreman to regain the title in 1974, Foreman did an interview where he said that in the 8th round, when Foreman was out of gas, they clutched, and All whispered in his ear, 'Is that all you got, George?'. Foreman told the interviewer, 'When he asked that, I thought, 'Yeah, it is '. Less than a minute later, he knocked me out.'
I grew up watching Mohammed Oli I was born in 1964 I had no idea about those controversial decisions thank you so much you too you guys do a very good job and you did a good job with Don Rickles which was in your difficult for you but growing up then that’s it was not it was funny it was not racist it’s a good job
Y'all just watched the man who was voted in as the greatest sportsman of the century.
One of the biggest influence in pop culture of all time
I love muhammad ali videos please react more videos❤
I met and spoke with Ali at his training camp Deer Lake in Orwigsburg, PA... It was quite memorable as I watched him work out and do a few magic tricks...You need to watch the Frazier fights especially number 3..."The bout is almost universally regarded as one of the best and most brutal fights in boxing history, and was the culmination of a three-bout rivalry between the two fighters that Ali won, 2-1" (Wikipedia)... By the end they could hardly raise their arms...14 rounds of heavyweight championship boxing that has never been equaled, it could have been a "draw".
All of them.
Part of Ali's legacy is also about his legendary trash talk. This dude would make predictions and then make them come true. He would insult his opponents constantly. We sadly never got to see the true career of Ali, as his prime years were cut short. As good as he was, as GOATed as he's considered, it would all probably be even better if the draft never happened.
In a lot of the TKOs Ali was already holding back so not to seriously injure his opponent. In other the boxer ... The refs could see that and also the lack of ability for the other boxer to defend themselves . The famous George Forman has thanked Ali for not hitting him on his way down saying it could have killed him or caused brain damage if he hadn't pull an easy punch.
You guys have a great channel and I’m a big fan! I saw a lot of these fights live on TV and it’s great to see your reactions. Ali was the most well known person in the world and I love watching younger people like you pay homage to him! Thank you!
Ali was 6 feet 2 and a half inches tall. He was and still is the greatest heavyweight champion all time. HE IS THE GREATEST!
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Boxing is my favorite sport. If I had a time machine, I would go back to watch Cassius Clay fight. I say Cassius because I want to see early Ali. I love the name Cassius because he is named after the most badass politician in American history.
They'll also stop a fight if the opponent isn't fighting back, or giving much of an effort. It wasn't until the late 70's or early 80's that they reduced Title fights from 15 to 12 rounds.
In the 1970’s Ali boxed some of the hardest punchers ever, Joe Frazier, George Foreman,(yea him), and Earnie Shavers!
If Ali had delivered such a beating by the fourth round to stop it, can you imagine what the eighth or tenth would have been??
Kids of your age say Tyson was the best, except Ali survived the above three, Tyson never took a beating like the one a 30yo Ali would have given him!!
I’m thinking Ali fought at 210# for most of his career. And he fought allot of guys that were barely 200# like Kenny Norton.
But Norton was a puncher which is how he won a title.
He was the first fighter to incorporate a lot movement in his boxing . A lot of fights are stopped when cuts are deep around the eyes .
Your missing the point, Sonny Liston was accused of taking a fall for the mob which he had ties to. But closer examination shows the punch was real, Liston didn't get up so it had nothing to do with the ref.
He was good against the competition of the time but the more recent fighters are on another level.Training and nutrition helps so much now along with the pure size of the heavyweights now.
Fun fact. Sylvester Stallone's inspiration for Rocky I was the fight between Ali and Chuck Wepner. Wepner's nickname was the Bayonne Bleeder. It was pretty much the actual script. A little known journeyman fighter who got a fight with the greatest fighter in the world and went the distance. The difference being Wepner was knocked out in the last round, and Rocky survived the last round and lost by decision.
Joe Louis, aka the Brown Bomber, would shuffle and stalk until BOOM one punch and down went the opponent. Definitely one of the greatest, if not flashiest, boxers ever. Good reactions as always.
Also, it wasnt unheard of for boxers to "take a fall" for money. Was this a part of Ali's history? Who knows...
Need to react to more than just his fights👍
While he was a great boxer.....it was his personality that really made him stand out. He was funny, brash,....the ultimate showman.
Besides being the champion he was, he had swag 😎
One of the best trash talkers in sports, Ali could back it up in the ring with superior reach and speed. Height: 6′ 3″ Weight: 236 lbs
this almost seemed like the lowlights of his fights. I watched 17 of his fights and when young, his hands were a blur.
Check out, although video is rare, Rocky Marciano knockouts. Even Ali said it would be a painful fight.
Rocky Marciano is the only heavyweight to go undefeated his entire career.
I actually had a very uncommon experience with Muhammad Ali in 1993. A longtime family friend was very close to Richard Pryor (he produced his albums and brought him to my house when I was 10 - and that's a funny two-part story unto itself lol). When I was 26 or so, he invited me to Richard Pryor's birthday party - at RP's house. I wasn't allowed a +1 (I don't remember if I even asked), so I just showed up alone and clueless as far as what to expect. When Muhammad Ali walked in (or whenever I noticed him), I OBVIOUSLY knew exactly who he was, but I wasn't driven to fawn all over him the way everybody else did. At some point, Ali struck up a conversation with me. I won't pretend that I wasn't cute lol. For the next half an hour or so, I had the man's undivided attention - and we just talked about REGULAR SHIT (I'm a lifelong tomboy). In hindsight, I think he allowed it to go on for as long as it did because I managed to treat him like a regular person. The standout part of our conversation was that we were in complete agreement that the birthday cake was BEYOND DELICIOUS - and we schemed together on how to get more without looking greedy lol. We ended up taking a photo together - because Ali asked the photographer to take it - and it will forever be the coolest photo I was ever in... And I've met TONS of "celebrities" while working in the industry. I even got to spend 5 days at Neverland (I was Chris Tucker's first platonic female friend before he was famous and we ended up working together years later) and witness MJ being a regular dad... but that half an hour with Ali one on one... there are no words. I never got a real conversation with MJ, and Chris was just my homey so he doesn't even count lol. It really struck me how incredible it was to have that experience with Ali when I saw the reaction of the world after he lit the torch at the '96 Olympics. THAT man wanted to go on a cake heist with ME 😁.
He was the greatest. Human.
If the referee deems that one fighter is taking too much punishment, he can stop the fight. We only saw a few seconds but maybe the opponent took a disproportionate amount of damage.
Don't lose sight of the fact that you're just watching the knockouts. When you see a guy, it's being knocked out. Because the ref stops the fight. What you don't see is if it's the fifth round and he's had the tar kicked out of him for 5 straight rounds and had already had maybe stoppages because they were worried about concussions and things ultimately what can happen is a ref. Will stop it when I freeze the point where he seems defenseless so he doesn't get injured. You can't base the strangeness of certain calls by refs based on the 15 seconds that you're seeing where it's the end of the fight. Because you have to bring the contacts the first rounds at we're forward getting to that point.
Sonny Liston got involved with the Mafia, when he fought Ali the second time nobody thought Liston had a chance, so many people believe he took a dive, and Ali was actually telling him to get up after knocking him down as he knew Liston could take harder punches than what Ali had just gave him (fact he did punch him, but many people believe Ali missed the punch but you can see the ripple effect of the punch when it’s slowed down in 4k)
top 3 sports man ever for sure
Both Liston fights were surrounded by talk about "dives". Sonny was surrounded by allegations of mob ties. Also people couldn't understand how he didn't wreck Clay, he was Tyson before Tyson.
There was one clip I would've liked to have seen. I don't know who the fighter was but it was in the early 60s I think. I just remember I once walked into a sports bar in the UK, where they had a big screen showing nothing but Ali.
But I remember Ali kids on that he's reeling from a punch from his opponent, then just knocks him out cold! Made me laugh at the time!
His fights with Joe Frazier were "Rockey Like". Both fighters gave as much as they took. EPIC Fights that you can catch on you tube , 3 in all. The world never saw how great Ali was because he sacrificed 3 years his career for his moral beliefs about America's hypocrisy over the Vietnam War. (Social injustice objections, please do a deep and honest study of the times to understand this)
A ref can justifiably stop a fight if he deems the fighter to be defenseless. Meaning, the boxer could still be on his feet, but, according to the ref, he's lost the ability to protect himself. BTW, Ali did not lose his license to box because he wouldn't go to the Vietnam War; he lost his license because he refused to "step forward" in the drafting process. Not going to the Vietnam War was one of the results of losing his license.
As you can see Ali's best speed, movement and reflexes was in the 60's, wasn't easy to hit him with more than one shot here and there.
enjoy the reactions.
Sweet, I haven’t seen the old Ali footage in 20 years? Longer? Possibly.
Archie "the Mongoose" Moore had been light-heavyweight (175 pounds) champion years before. He had already challenged for the heavyweight title in 1955, fighting heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano. Rocky was small for a heavyweight - five-foot-ten and 185 pounds - but he was one of the hardest hitters of all time. Moore and Rocky were the same weight for the fight, giving Moore the idea he and Rocky could fight as equals. He was wrong. Rocky wore him down and knocked him out in the eighth round.
Moore really had no business in the ring with Ali. He was old for any athlete, and weighed 185 to Ali's 210; he was five-foot-ten to Ali's six-foot-two. Ali's reach - defined as the measurement from fingertips to fingertips as the fighter holds his arms as widely as he can - was 85 inches, an incredible wingspan. Ali was an outstanding physical specimen.
Much the same thing happened with Floyd Patterson. As Ali said, "I'm a natural heavyweight, and Patterson never was nothin' but a blowed-up light-heavy." He was right. Patterson considered the fight a war between good and evil. He was going to take back the championship for Christianity.
The controversy over whether Ali had really hit Liston in their second fight is resolved by seeing the film that was taken by the camera suspended over the ring. It clearly shows a solid punch that visibly jarred Liston's head.
Ali did not become a Muslim in any traditional sense. He joined the Nation of Islam, a militant organization which purported to be Muslim but diverged widely from traditional Islam. Its best-known member was Malcolm X who, the year Ali won the championship, had visited the Muslim holy city of Mecca, and had become a real Muslim. Ali stuck with the Nation of Islam. Malcolm was assassinated in February 1965. The two had never spoken again.
I didn’t read all the comments but Chuck Whitner was with Sylvester Stallone bass rock young so fun fact it’s one good thing about being old good job you guys proud of you
Please do rocky marciano... now this guy for me was the greatest... hard as a rock and completely undefeated...
Good reaction btw
Watch those full fights of those stoppages. He was punishing them especially Sonny Banks. His eye was damaged pretty bad. You can see the damage in Black and white footage. Ali fought Charlie Powell at the civic arena in Pittsburgh pa. Not Louisville(correction of the narrator)
you guys cover everything nice
In the 60`s he weighed 215 in the 70`s he weighed 225. Todays heavyweight(Super Heavyweights) are 240 to 280, He was the best pound per pound.
''I would like to say that you are not as dumb as you look, Harry'' - Muhammad Ali to Harry Carpenter during a television interview.
This was said on the BBC during The BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, which takes place each December.
Harry Carpenter was one of the British commentators heard in the video, probably the Henry Cooper clip. He is the only British boxer to have been awarded a knighthood.
Cooper was the first to win the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award twice, in 1967 for going unbeaten and in 1970, when Cooper had become the British, Commonwealth, and European heavyweight champion. He is the only British boxer to win three Lonsdale Belts outright.
He is also celebrated as one of the great Londoners in the "London Song" by Ray Davies (the Kinks) on his 1998 album The Storyteller.
Sir Henry Cooper OBE KSG (3 May 1934 - 1 May 2011)[1] was an English heavyweight boxer. He was undefeated in British and Commonwealth heavyweight championship contests for twelve years and held the European heavyweight title for three years. In a 1963 fight against a young Cassius Clay (later known as Muhammad Ali), he knocked Clay down in Round 4, before the fight was stopped in Round 5 because of a cut to Cooper's eye.
In 1966 he fought Ali for a second time. Ali was then world heavyweight champion. However, Cooper again lost due to an eye injury. Cooper was twice voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year and, after retiring in 1971 following a controversial loss to Joe Bugner, remained a popular public figure. He is the only British boxer to have been awarded a knighthood.
Wikipedia.
I’m a recipient of 3 known concussions when I was playing football in high school! I’m 58 now and have hydrocephalus and something else (undetermined). I loved the game but if I had to do it over again? Would have probably not played!
Please can you react to naoya inoue the monster
He is the most complete boxer currently and also he is p4p king of 5 divisions
You might want to take a look at ITV Sport's "An Audience With Muhammad Ali. You will see Ali & Cooper were great friends and Ali & the greatest of respect for Cooper & the feeling was mutual.
Ali said Henry was the only person who hit so hard it jarred his Ancestors! Cooper's punch was known as "Henry's 'ammer".
It was a shame that Henry suffered from having an almost tissue paper like skin and his face would open up very easily, no controversy as the narrator seemed to suggest.
If you want funny and heartwarming, watch Billy Crystal's tribute to Muhammad Ali. He does a great impression of The Greatest of All Time.❤
This is a music reaction suggestion. If you want to see CRAZY 1960's music videos, try "Fire" from "The Crazy World of Arthur Brown" and the video is a must see(I never saw the video when the song came out). I think you'll love it, or at least be entertained, or shocked. Thanks
On Fight Night the game back in the 1990s...in my house, Ali was off limits😅couldnt use him.
You should check out the movie Cinderella Man. Great movie
14:27 his hand speed didn't improve, the cameras did! Ali was ALEAYS fast
I'm surprised about those fights that can't be found. You'd think even though they're low key someone would have them in a collection somewhere. All in the Family, I think it is, actually has three pilots but the first one I believe is not known to exist for the same reason, I've seen the other two.
You two should check out the song The Black Superman-Muhammad Ali. Fun calypso sounding tune.
You should react to muhammad ali trash talk
My step dad didn't care for him after he changed religions to avoid the Viet Nam draft. As for skills - He was heavyweight but moved like a middleweight. Big fast man. Seemed to be the prototype for future athletes becoming loud and proud. I'd say the 'act' was revealed as he aged and became quite humble.