Just watched 'em. The first fight was my favorite.
Did anyone else notice during the first fight after the bell was rung you could still hear it ringing in the background for about a minute? It sounded like a drone.
I thought that during the first fight Ali got knocked down during round 11, it wasn't a slip.
During the second fight it was actually interrupted for a bit by a football game. I missed two or three rounds. WTH? Odd.
Thanks for posting about the fights. If any old Mike Tyson fights are broadcast, please update us. Thanks!
Once, he got tickets to a match in Atlanta. Marvis Frazier was fighting. We were sitting right next to Joe. In fact, Marvis got knocked out and Joe had to go past us when he went to the ring.
Irwin, my friend gave me the autographs of Roberto Duran, Larry Holmes, and Ali. Prized possessions.
Did they call that a slip?? Pretty clearly a knockdown. Those three fights was the best trilogy of fights in the history of boxing. I missed it on the 26th. Gonna to try to find it on one of the streaming services. Bonefish mentioned some classic matchups from back in the day. The rumble in the jungle was a classic as well. Nobody could negate a big puncher like Ali.
I was in elementary school but I remember Sugar Ray Robinson.
You watch him and you see the greatest. Superb boxer and a devastating puncher with both hands. Ali copied his style. Ray was in life outside the ring a great dancer. Robinson took tap dancing lessons as a child in New York City. In 1958, he tap danced with Gene Kelly.
My older brother was a big boxing fan at that time. He followed when on ABC sports and purchased numerous boxing magazines. As a kid I remember watching delayed telecasts of them om TV of at least 2 Ali Frazier fights. I never followed myself very much but my impression of the sport is that it was significantly better in that time.
I forget which fight it was, maybe #1 Ali/Frazier. I couldn't get the closed circuit telecast so I hit my short wave radio and found it somewhere one of the bands. The reception sucked so it would fade in and out. I spent much of my time adjusting the antennas and holding the radio in my hands adjusting it's position trying to keep the signal in tune.
That was a workout. That radio was probably 15 lbs or so and the size of 2 stacked shoe boxes. The circuitry when that beast was made wasn't quite the same as it is today.
If everybody had like minds, we would never learn.
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