I totally believe that. Henry Cooper scared Ali big time!!

My father met Henry he was indeed a gentleman and could take a joke at his expense without being offended.

Henry came to my school in Matlock Derbyshire, because I kept sending him letters, I came out of school and he was stood there 😱 he said,hello Billy 😀 I couldn't even breathe 🤣 none of the kids knew who he was lol I told the teachers he was my dad 🤣🤣🤣🤣 we walked down into the town centre and got pop and crisps, about 10 minutes later a car came and picked him up 😰

@@winniepeg2020 I wrote to Jimmy Saville and he came round our mam's house in a big Rolls Royce and wanted to take me to see his hamsters but are mam and dad wouldn't let me, so my younger brother went instead. When he came home a week later he said 'uncle' Jimmy kept his hamsters in his pocket and he taught him how to walk like John Wayne, which he did for weeks afterwards, the show off he was back then.. Everyone at school was well jealous!

1:51 it looks not like a gentlemen behaviour.

so do dogs

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MAGAs ARE dogs.@@onlythewise1

@@onlythewise1 Not if they've fought previously.

@@everettscott4745 really

Cooper didn't have the skills never had never will

NJ NJ

@@jamesbecker136 you stand alone with your ridiculous summary of a Boxer acclaimed as a fine stylist and hard puncher.

Chroume internet

​@@jambarreturns9060 I saw a guy that did a lot of "hitting while holding". Once he stopped holding Ali's arm,he became far less effective. Very cagey fighter,with a good punch. Made Ali pay for relaxing in the fourth.

Cooper was pretty sly with that left hand he tried king hittin practices on Ali but Ali was too solid

​​@@Walter-ri1li Ali lost without cheating He had no respect for anyone,not even his wife

​@@niteblaster1 ...Another Anti-Ali!

Cooper earned it!

@@niteblaster1 another rascist jewish guy

he was a dirty fighter

That night Henry was robbed.

​@@noabraga3773 Cassius Clay during the Foreman fight was like, *Laying on the ropes to catch my breath*

Oh he does he dances like a ballerina

Great fight

Bruno was same v mike tyson

Ali called him a haemophiliac ... such a shame really. Ali had the knack of the glancing blows with his gloves which tore the skin apart, as opposed to a direct punch at right-angles to the "recipient"

el cabezazo pero la mayor parte los ramos

Ali perdido en esta pelea se puede mirar en todos los rounds

Ali gave him credit for his gamesmanship

You're right. He was quicker than Ali, way too quick, that left hook especially. Ali was short with most of his left leads because he was frightened of the hook. Very sensible of him. When he was nailed he was very, very groggy.

And RIP to Harry Carpenter

@Sprite Bonn no one puts Cooper in Ali’s league but all said an done Henry floored him.

Amen to that!

if Cooper wants getting cut all the time he would be up there with the best of that time@@torvilasulvstle362

@David McFrost but if you watch Lewis, Joshua and most of those boxers you mentioned have learnt a lot from Ali. They all Stick and Move ( Jab and dance ) even though they could never perfect Ali's movements they still learnt a lot from him . Play Ali Liston first fight and watch Lewis fight they all learnt one thing from him STICK AND MOVE. Only after Ali did people adopt this Technique. Before that people fought toe to toe in a straight line. When I watch all these boxers , I see a lot of Alice movements in them. Ali like you said was not a heavy puncher , he was a scientific intelligent boxer . Thanks for your evaluation. 👍

@@jedus007 Joshua isn't much good at dancing I think that Fury will bewilder AJ when they hopefully meet !

@@TheHumbuckerboy I like AJ but he doesn't have the skills or arsenal to beat Fury.

@@TonyEnglandUK But he has the money men behind him ; I hope that it doesn't go to points otherwise I can see them robbing Fury.

@@jedus007 ^^^^^^^^^

Ali had a legendary chin.

@Ezzard Charles yes , we got to use what we have and not what we think we have 👍🇦🇺❤️

@Ezzard Charles if you find Henry’s little book you may enjoy his take on the art of boxing like I did. It’s a very small thin book with everything a boxer needs.

That tells you something. Against all odds - Racism, death threats, uneven playing field, zero margin for error, Lion Heart, greatnes, we always overcome!

@@titchlewis7219 and always at a cost we except 👍❤️🇦🇺and again we see it’s not the athlete that put up walls but they do tear them down 👍❤️🇦🇺

@@basilmarasco1975 This has all gone far beyond Henry Cooper being a nice chap.

@@basilmarasco1975 Clinton was a draft dodger, Bush was in a flight school that only the cream of the crop get in due to political influence from his father, Obama never served. Actually, anyone who found a way out of the Viet war was better off. As history shows us, it was all a sham and a useless waste of life.

Terence jay absolutely gentleman

@Sprite Bonn Nothing to be ashamed of. Ali said that no-one had hit him as hard as Cooper.

@Sprite Bonn Anyone who faced Ali at this point in his career, when he was nearing the peak of his skills and was really fast, and could put him on the canvas, deserves respect and admiration, as well as recognition and a minor place, at least, in heavyweight history.

'Cooper threw a devastating left hook knocking the Champ down'.... His trademark punch was called Henry's Hammer and it would of won that fight for Henry if Ali's corner had messed with his glove buying time for Ali to recover. edit; nearly forgot, and it's claimed they shot something up Ali's nose during the sponge down, I wonder what that could of been hmm.

Like your benevolent commentary

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Henry Cooper did what few would go onto to do knock Ali down and go toe to toe with this boxing legend. Henry Cooper certainly did Britain proud.

Mike Tyson would have wip cooper to

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Clay is the most over rated boxer in history,hung on all the time and often hit with the inside of his glove.

@@michaelconley7958And he is the one who made the world interested in boxing.

@@seeya101oliASWHDFIL Cooper's left would drop anyone. The shame was that he cut so easily, that cost him in a lot of fights.

@@seeya101oliASWHDFIL How could it have been a fluke when Cooper landed roughly 10 good left hooks in the fight. A single hook that landed okay, but he landed left hooks in all 4 rounds.

One of THE best fights of all time. Both utter quality, aggression and excellent footwork. They eclipse the boxers of today.

Daryush Arash = "Ali must have been sixteen" (?).. "Ali was the turning point in boxing" (?).. Do you watch boxing??..

@@aloha2104 hello there. Age!? I know I was wrong. He is 20 or in his early twenties. Turning point!? Yes I think classic boxing was revolutionised by Ali. You see the contrast right there: Ali-Cooper II, round 6.Cooper, cut in the eyebrow and tired retreats to the corner and!! he stays there. Referee stops the match. Otherwise he'd stopped there like a sack in front of Ali untill he'd been ko-ed. I do watch boxing, quite often. What do you think? What's your opinion?

When I watch fights like this and people say Ali would beat Tyson. I just don't see it. As heavyweights go,I'll forever have Iron Mike #1. No doubt though Ali is legendary and truly transcended boxing.

@@ericparker163 You know nothing.

@@paulweir5031 school me. Post the fighting version of Ali that would beat Mike in his prime. This aint it.

Well said

No point beating around the bush

I ain't mad at that! Tell them to get lost.

Well said I'm here for the boxing not politics!

thanks for those words. I wished more posters of videos like this would make a point like that!

@Senior Billy Bull Rather sweeping in places, while playing with semantics.

@Senior Billy Bull You’ve done a lot of copying and pasting there 😉 However, I’m no boxing expert, all I was pointing out is your sweeping and play on semantics. Ali to me was an incredible sportsman and not only fast with his hands but with his mind too, at least until he got ill. I doubt if we will see the likes again.

@Senior Billy Bull aye ok mate!!!! Ali was and always will be the goat!!!

@Senior Billy Bull I was goin to get into some verbal sparring with you here as that is wholly inaccurate..... but I suspect I know who and what I’m dealing with here...... so carry on sir

@Senior Billy Bull You’re still rambling on at length, so much so, if you haven’t done already done so you should write a book my friend. I see you despise Ali deep down because of Nam. Personally, I think Ali was right not to go to Nam. He had a damn good brain unlike numpty’s who think it’s right to wage war because puppets tell them. The same puppets who are dangled by the psychopaths who run the world, and people like you who feel so damn proud to fight such stupid wars for them, just to feel proud and a hero which, only glorifies war sad to say. And governments play on this hero shit more than ever today. Send them bastards instead. Ali knew his stuff in this respect. Personally, I think you are very jealous of Ali being far wiser than you. Strong intuition/wisdom, the highest form of intelligence which, Ali had. I once heard someone say that Ali didn’t go to Nam because he was a coward 😂 Think about that!! You also seem to have ‘ demigod ‘ on the brain! I wonder why? Are you religious??

Spot on!!!!

If pouring ice water down his trunks and smelling salts is "underhanded" then I suppose you would have the um, lowdown on what happened.

​@@jameshoffman8501 Smelling salts isn't legal

Yep, that extra 5 seconds made Henry's eye open up more and bleed faster......

He was always known for being a heavy bleeder. Was the bane of his career.

Had they not stopped the fight, Cooper most likely would have knocked Clay out

@@Smartguy561 I met Clay around 32 years ago back home in Rasht my hometown, He was accompanied to a boxing club then they took him to a local mosque to pray

​​@@Smartguy561Non direi: Ali', aveva tenuto un ritmo non altissimo forse sottovalutando un pochino le doti di Cooper. Pero' dopo che e' stato buttato giu' ha iniziato il successivo round con una concentrazione ed una ferocia fuori dalla norma che lo hanno portato a colpire Cooper piu' volte fino a procurargli un' emorragia. Ora, alcune emorragie si possono tamponare ma non tutte e non si puo' combattere con il sangue che cola sul volto e sul ring quindi l' incontro era stato giustamente sospeso a favore di Ali'. In pratica in una ripresa (l' ultima), Ali' ha devastato Cooper dimostrando che al suo prime era un pugile anche potente e lo stanno a dimostrare i numerosi Ko che ha messo a segno prima del carcere. Cooper in quel round, aveva preso degli scossoni: non credo che sarebbe durato a lungo con un' emorragia in atto e con un Ali' totalmente inferocito dopo esser stato messo giu' nel penultimo round. Va' dato atto a Cooper d' esser stato nel momento del Prime Ali', l' avversario piu' veloce (praticamente quanto Ali' con le braccia), e comunque potente ma anche Ali' lo era in quel periodo. E lo ha dimostrato nell' ultima ripresa dove ha stracciato Cooper (non un pugile qualsiasi). Ali' in carriera (anche nel suo momento di declino), non ha mai perso per Ko: nell' incontro contro Holmes (tra l' altro gran pugile!), non c' era Ali' sul ring ma un uomo malato che non e' stato colpevolmente fermato poiche' non era piu' in grado di combattere. I primi segni del Parkinson erano evidenti ma Ali' faceva mangiare in molti e lo hanno dato in pasto ad Holmes che conoscendo Ali' per esser stato il suo sparring partner dopo la prima ripresa si era subito accorto che qualcosa non andava nel suo avversario e si e' regolato. Ma Ali' aveva ancora un grande cuore ragion per cui non voleva smettere. Non si manda mai un uomo malato su un ring: mi meraviglio che quell' incontro sia ancora oggi considerato come un incontro regolare. Ali' finche' non si e' ammalato non ha mai perso per Ko: questa e' la verita' (nemmeno nella sua fase di declino e nemmeno non essendo piu' al suo apice dopo il ritorno dal carcere). Avrebbe potuto chiudere la carriera di 18 anni pugilistici con solamente 2 sconfitte ai punti contro Joe Frazier e Ken Norton se solo l' avessero fermato prima e se non l' avessero fatto combattere da malato di Parkinson. Un record secondo, solamente a quello di Rocky Marciano (imbattutto). Purtroppo lo hanno spremuto fino all' osso: e cio' gli e' valsa l' etichetta di pugile poco potente. Non avere un pugno singolo da Ko non significa non essere potenti: Ali' aveva combinazioni da Ko. Il primo Ali' ha vinto quasi tutti gli incontri per Ko: il secondo, era un Ali' depotenziato e meno potente con una grande astuzia, intelligenza tattica, meno mobilita', meno velocita' e quindi meno potenza ma con grande resistenza e un grande mento piu' il suo talento innato. Cio' gli e' bastato per dominare anche negli anni 70'. Senza il carcere, avrebbe ottenuto piu' Ko a suo favore (che comunque non sono stati pochi in carriera). Tuttavia, anche se si fosse ritirato quando doveva farlo (in quanto non doveva dimostrare piu' niente a nessuno!), Ali' non avrebbe potuto evitare il Parkinson: forse, (sottolineo, forse), la malattia sarebbe andata meno spedita ma la malattia non e' dipesa certo dalla Boxe come tanti che non fanno sport da contatto e che sviluppano lo stesso il Parkinson. Per me dopo Ali' il piu' grande pugile e' stato certamente Mike Tyson nel suo prime ma per la durata della carriera dico Lennon Lewis (per me, superiore a Tyson o, almeno al suo pari nel periodo del primo Tyson). Precedentemente, oltre a Marciano inserirei J.Lewis e Liston. Foreman, Joe Frazier, Ken Norton e L.Holmes tra i piu' grandi ma non sui livelli talentuosi dei sopra citati: idem per Holyfield. Almeno fino ad una certa epoca: oggi, parliamo di un' epoca completamente diversa con piu' tecnologia, maggiori integratori, alimentazione ancora piu' curata, stazze diverse, ecc. Ogni epoca, ha avuto i suoi grandi pugili.

he was a dirty fighter - look at those rabbit punches.

@@stephenlyon1358 Yes, I remember noticing how Cooper was very dirty against Joe Erskine .

In his last years Cooper had given up on being involved with boxing because he hated the showbiz element that had started to influence the sport when shown on TV

@@stephenlyon1358 Fighting is a dirty sport. Which is not the same as cheating,

@@stephenlyon1358 Ali was a pedophile which is worse?

I think he came in at 189 for this fight. He was a plasterer by trade and had an inordinate amount of natural strength in his left arm and shoulder. Ali said that no one hit him harder.

@@jednatkin9959 That was second fight. First fight he weighed 185 1/2 lb according to boxrec

You're so right, I couldn't have put your comment any better.

I'd give him a good chance against. MARCIANO

And he actually won. You think Cooper coulda done that to prime Tyson ? No way!

Yeah and he also said Ernie Shavers is the hardest hitter he ever faced and he also said Joe Frazier hit like a truck and made him feel like he was dying and he also said Ken Norton gave him the toughest 24 rounds of his entire career. Ali was that kind of guy. He always spoke highly of other fighters including the night Foreman fought 5 men in one night. They were all average at best but Ali complimented each one of them as really good fighters.

@@dariangregory6182 Well put.. Shavers probably gave him the most of a beating for a whole fight for hard punches accumulated..Frazier had the best endurance of the back and forth

@@dariangregory6182 Pretty good company for Cooper

@@dariangregory6182 when Ali for Ernie Joe Kenny that was in the mid-70s he was passed his prime all these Prime was in the 60s 67 is when he hit his prime and then the suspension

absolutely 💯

Вот и весь касиус, чудо охуевший в 21 год напялил корону совсем ОХУЕЛ, что ли. Не, точно охуевший тип этот клей касторский.

Yeah. Lucky for Clay that Cooper's eye just became a bloody, swollen mess for no reason whatsoever. Otherwise Cooper would've won easily.

@@crashburn3292 Winning easily vs argueably best heavyweight of all times? Ali opened his eyes with his jabs, there is no luck here, Cooper was also getting tired, he was so aggressive in early rounds, it's Ali's fight style, he didn't come aggressive looking for an early Ko like Tyson or Foreman

@@MuhammadAli-kg7ij Yes ! i was 13 back then

@@crashburn3292 he wouldn't have won easily. Clay came out like a bull in the 5th. He hit Cooper with a lot more punches in the 5th than he did in the first 4 rounds. Clay was boxing and toying with Cooper in the first 4 rounds. You can go back and look in the 3rd round he was teasing Cooper, and the announcer said he was ungentlemanly. He was gettin in his head. Cooper's lucky Clay hit em in the face so much and got his eye gushin. The ref stopped the fight to save Cooper gettin knocked out. You can say what you want, but there wasn't nothin easy about this fight. They both boxed well, and had a great fight, but Clay came on strong in the 5th. That knock down got em motivated in a major way, and you could see play time was over. I just went back and watched the 5th round again and counted the punches. Clay threw about 37 punches to Cooper's 6 punches. And Clay landed almost every one and Cooper didn't land any. It was about a minute and a half in the 5th round before the ref stopped the fight, and clay landed about 35 punches and Cooper didn't land one punch. I'm tellin you, the ref could see what was comin, and he stopped the fight to save Cooper from gettin knocked out!!!

@@crashburn3292 No reason whatsoever? When you get punched in the face from a 210 lb professional fighter, puffiness and bleeding may result, in some people than others, and Henry WAS a bleeder.

Enry's 'ammer.

Amazing how he even got up.

I thought that, I've not watched this fight before until right now, and I literally couldn't believe it, I actually lifted partially off my sofa, as in to say oh no, c'mon Ali, get up get up ! I was devastated for him, that was a real shaker, I bet Ali's grandad even felt that punch.

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Saved by the bell

Joe Frazier caught Ali with a similar left hook!

Indeed. Looked very beatable in his 10 rounder against Doug Jones too in his previous fight. He had obviously trained out of his skin for Liston.

Not exactly. The transatlantic satellite picture (relatively new in 1963) distorted the physiques of both fighters. In the first four rounds, Clay chose to fight Cooper straight up and in close, not moving much at all to his left or right. Bad strategy. After the knockdown, Clay got serious, peppered Henry with the jab, keeping him at a distance and eventually ending the fight. This fight reminded me of the two Leonard-Duran fights. In their fist fight, Leonard chose to slug it out with Duran and lost. In the rematch, Leonard moved a lot better, using his speed and jab for more often and more effectively, frustrating Duran to the point where he said 'no mas.' Against Liston, Clay kept himself at a distance (Sonny had an 84" reach), moving superbly to his left and to his right, using the jab to great effect, against a fighter who could take him out with one or two punches. Clay split Liston's face open and that forced Sonny to quit. Clay didn't take Cooper seriously, however, he had a great deal of respect (understandably) for Liston.

Let's be honest Liston took a dive in both fights.and Clay/Ali. Was not the greatest heavyweight. But he was the greatest entertainer outside the ring

@@ianr9898 I don't really buy that Liston bagged the first fight. I think he undertrained and believed all the hype of his invincibility. Clay basically kicked his ass and Sonny was humiliated and embarrassed--so he quit. Similar to 'No mas', in a way. The second fight was a different story. He definitely went 'in the tank'. I don't think we'll ever know the whole story...

@@dspreis The mob owned Liston. They had big money on Clay.and told him to take the dive. They also assassinated him later

StA Werner,

The bell saved him !

Largest Classifieds Or in his case, a freakin vegetable.

Or with Parkinson’s

Oh man, but the reconciliation mustve been as good as the fights... 😉

Wrong sir, he said Earnie Shavers

Wrong sir, he said Earnie Shavers

And his European ancestors. Clay was mixed race

Marciano opponents (not in exact order): *We see their entire "CAREER" record, not a partial record. Seeing a boxers complete resume gives a more accurate evaluation how good, or how bad they were. Professional boxers can easily be evaluated using grades A, B, C, D, and F which has been used in boxing for decades:* Lee Epperson - 0 wins 1 loss with 0% KOs *F-LEVEL* Jimmy Weeks - 0 wins 1 loss with 0% KOs *F-LEVEL* Gilbert Cardone - 0 wins 3 losses with 0% KOs *F-LEVEL* John Edwards - 1 win 2 loss with 33% KOs *F-LEVEL* Bill Hardeman - 1 win 6 losses with 0% KOs *F-LEVEL* Humphrey Jackson - 4 wins 2 losses with 28% KOs *F-LEVEL* Harry Haft - 12 wins 8 losses with 35% KOs *F-LEVEL* James Connolly - 12 wins 9 losses with 33% KOs *F-LEVEL* Harry Bilazarian - 15 wins 12 losses with 35% KOs *F-LEVEL* Bob Jefferson - 3 wins 10 losses with 0% KOs *F-LEVEL* Harold Mitchell 4 wins 17 losses with 4% KOs *F-LEVEL* Gilley Ferron - 4 wins 13 losses with 17% KOs *F-LEVEL* Artie Donato - 7 wins 13 losses with 10% KOs *F-LEVEL* Johnny Pretzie - 10 wins 13 losses with 33% KOs *F-LEVEL* Don Mogard - 20 wins 16 losses with 15% KOs *F-LEVEL* Pete Louthis - 32 wins 14 losses with 35% KOs *D-LEVEL* Tommy DiGiorgio - 9 wins 15 losses with 4% KOs *F-LEVEL* Kenne Simmons - 9 wins 22 losses with 12% KOs *F-LEVEL* Art Henri -18 wins 29 losses with 18% KOs *F-LEVEL* Jimmy Walls - 20 wins 41 losses with 7% KOs *F-LEVEL* Ted Lowry - 71 wins 68 losses with 30% KOs *F-LEVEL* Ted Lowry (twice) - 71 wins 68 losses with 30% KOs *F-LEVEL* Gino Buonvino - 24 wins 15 losses with 10% KOs *F-LEVEL* Gino Buonvino (twice) - 24 wins 15 losses with 10% KOs *F-LEVEL* Joe Dominic - 18 wins 12 losses with 33% KOs *F-LEVEL* Eldridge Eatman - 22 wins 21 losses with 22% KOs *F-LEVEL* Willis Applegate -12 wins 16 losses with 13% KOs *F-LEVEL* Lee Savold - 104 wins 45 losses with 50% KOs *D-LEVEL* Phil Muscato - 56 wins 23 losses with 25% KOs *D-LEVEL* Bill Wilson - 56 wins 27 losses with 51% KOs *D-LEVEL* Johnny Shkor - 31 wins 19 losses with 42% KOs *F-LEVEL* Fred Beshore - 35 wins 17 losses with 24% KOs *D-LEVEL* Jimmy Evans - 18 wins 8 losses with 50% KOs looks okay until you see *he fought 10 opponents with 10 fights or less.* Eddie Ross - 19 wins 5 losses with 72% KOs looks okay until you see *he fought 10 debuting amateurs and 7 other opponents with 10 fights or less.* Bob Quinn - 20 wins 4 losses with 58% KOs looks okay until you see *he fought 13 opponents with 10 fights or less.* Bernie Reynolds - 53 wins 13 losses with 49% KOs looks okay until you see *he fought 30 opponents with 15 fights or less.* Pat Richards - 24 wins 9 losses with 39% KOs looks okay until you see *he fought 20 opponents with 10 fights or less.* Carmine Vingo - 16 wins 2 losses with 38% KOs looks good until you see *ALL 16 wins came against F-LEVEL opponents.* Don Cockell - 66 wins 14 losses with 46% KOs looks okay until you see the majority of his career was at middleweight and light heavyweight. *By the time he faced Marciano he was suffering from severe glandular disorders that wreaked havoc with his physique. He was sallow-skinned, fat, and had a nasty boil on his neck.* Harry Matthews - 90 wins 7 losses with 58% KOs is a good B-LEVEL resume until you see *he was a career middleweight moonlighting at light heavyweight.* Matthews weighed 130 lbs vs. Joey Parks who also weighed 130. *Shouldn't one have to beat credible "Heavyweight" opponents to be respected as a legitimate "Heavyweight" champion?* *Even little Rocky's 5 best opponents: 3 light heavyweights and 2 cruiserweights -- Charles Moore LaStarza Layne Walcott -- LOST ((94)) times and were KO'D ((28)) times!!!* IT'S CLEAR AS DAY WHY HE WENT 49-0 *In the old days, ringers could boost their income by fighting repeatedly. Padding your record against weak opponents can yield good results- the real stumblebums are the guys who make a career of losing. In small-time fights, the less-talented fighter often gets the bulk of the cash; he is, after all, providing a valuable service by losing so reliably--The Ring Magazine* Name one, just one *"prime"* ATG fighter little Rocky beat? Failing to name even one proves my comment rings true. Show me any respected boxing publication or analyst that claims Charles Moore Walcott Louis were *"prime"* when they fought Marciano?

@@Stout_Krout_Columbia_MD are you for real? Lol

I don't know about that. Looks more like he's taunting him. Good boxers will let the other guy wear himself out swinging and missing. It's likely a precursor to the Rope a Dope. Make no mistake, both men are in that ring to win. There's no charity.

No Ali was stalling for time because he wanted to make good on his prediction to beat Cooper in the fifth round, playing around like that not a good idea because Ali got floored, in the third round when he was playing he should have been real serious and go ahead and get Cooper out of there

@@youtoo2233 I could believe that. He didn't want to end it too soon or his "prediction" would not be true. As you say, goofing off in the ring is never a good idea. I've see it backfire wayyyy too many times.

@@youtoo2233 ..."Almost" doesn't cut it! PERIOD!!!

@@danroberts9050 yeah Ali played around in a lot of fights in the 70's and lost sometimes because of it. It hurt him in the scoring

Cooper was in amazing shape too. I watched this fight on live TV, and as an American kid rooting for Ali, I didn't think he was going to beat Cooper that night.

Cooper got cut up...Good thing the ref had enough sense to stop the fight,otherwise Cooper's face would have been pulverized more...Other white men have boxed Black boxers and tried to prove they can take a punch with the same exact outcome 🤣Isn't the object is to not get hit?🤣🤣🤣

White guys bleed 🩸 It was a shame. Yeh he was all in it before that.

@@jagginit : Seriously? You're bringing race into it? Twat!

I thought Cooper was going to knock him out with his left hook but Ali made it back to his corner but barely.

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On any given night, any heavyweight can knock down another if he catches him with the right punch. Ask Mike Tyson or Evander Holyfield…….

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Otb tl he was actually the second. First on camera however

Sonny Banks 1962

Cooper, Wepner (who was the "Rocky Balboa") both got beat down before the fights were over. Joe Frazier was the only one who knock Ali down in the same match and won the bout!

just by luck, he was hit with this with 2 seconds left in round...he would have been knocked out by Cooper

By grabbing his arm and rabbit punching

Bullshit

it was kind of dull until about the time Ali was long in the tooth. boxing's best times were ahead in 77-82/83 Count 'em: Victor Galindez Matthew Franklin Pipino Cuevas Roberto Duran Marvin Hagler Hector Camacho Alexis Arguello Aaron Pryor Larry Holmes Roy Jones Riddick Bowe Thomas Hearns

They hit a lot harder these days

Me to.... Thank you Sir .... Wonderful Fight two men at the Top of Their Game

Bill trotman calypso

Counted on his devastating one punch power. Sounds like a certain ex-champion

@@David-Once yeah, heard of Frazier. And right, hadn't heard of

1966..Ali was born in 1942

@@motorcycleartist 1963

Cooper was a journeyman fighter

Ali cheated that day or his corner did splitting his glove to give him time to recover

Clearly the highlight of Cooper’s boxing career.

​@@yinkaoyesanya8159 Sir Henry Cooper OBE KSG (3 May 1934 - 1 May 2011) was a British heavyweight boxer. He was undefeated in British and Commonwealth heavyweight championship contests for twelve years and held the European heavyweight title for three years.

I’m perhaps too young remember much of 60s England, but my mother always pined for those days. It’s a pity that racist attitudes were so disgusting and blatant then, but that aside I really like ‘that old’ London atmosphere. English people seemed like they had so much more gutsy character then and proud of it, marvellous.

@Senior Billy Bull somethings telling me you dont rate Ali 😴

Bunch of bloodthirsty jackals!!

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Tf you talking bout? He ate Coopers shots all day😂

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John Clark He was damn good!

I read that Henry Cooper weighed in at 187lbs for this fight, worth considering that's only a cruiserweight in today's weight limits (i.e.

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Cooper's left hook was like dynamite. A very tough fight for Ali. Cooper was very dangerous. Ali was messing around and did not take this fight as serious as he should have. Ali for me is the Greatest of all time and a great performance by Cooper

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Foi um dos maiores de tds os tempos só que brincava c os adversários por isso tu muitos socos desnessario talvez tenha lhe causa o mal de pakson jogar pra torcida nunca é bom foi o caso de Anderdon Silva foi brincar demais tou um cruzado desequilibrou o cara foi pra cima derrotou na revanche foi chutar na perna o cara armou e ele acertou o joelho do cara aí quebrou a perna e nunca mais ganhou o título acabou ali por causa de brincar com rival tem q ser igual a taison só porrada perdia qd não dava mesmo

Pfft, Ali was racist af and believed in segregation.

Racism is something an opressing majority can perpetrate against an oppressed minority. Victims of racism are not racist if they hate the race that oppresses them! The only people that hate Ali & call him racist are white racist fascist Americans! You hate him for throwing off his slave name, you hate him for refusing to fight fascist corporate Amerikkka's illegal racist imperialist war of choice for profit in Vietnam, Laos & Cambodia which was continuously filled with US war crimes, atrocities & rapes! You hate him for NOT being racist against the Vietnamese & other Asians when he said "Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam after so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?” & "I ain't got no quarrel with themViet Cong" & "no Vietcong ever called me nigger.” Furthermore, the things he was saying for a time that prompt you to say that about him was just brainwashing from Elijah Muhammad but the reality was he had all sorts of white people in his corner, literally with Dundee, but also in the Louisville business group that originally backed and funded him. He had many friends of every race over time, including my one time boss and great man Faz Husain, an Indian from India who took Ali on a tour of India and named his first son Ali after Muhammed. Ali was a pitcher for Michigan baseball.

@@docducttape9270 another conspiracy theorist. Betu support Mr orange head too. 😂😂

He also ate so much leather that it ruined him for his last 20 years of life. The man was great but others have been on his level and will be in the future.

Lennox Lewis was the complete heavyweight.

@Dillon Mcconnell The unbeaten Michael Grant and Akinwande were both bigger than Lewis, Lewis effectively finished their careers. Lewis was old fat and ring rusty and still destroyed Klitschko's face, and many forget he won the last round and took the Ukraine's legs with the last uppercut.

Marciano would have crushed Ali.

@Dillon Mcconnell 😂

Ali's movement & balance were off that fight. Was more arm punching than setting down on his shots using his hips where the torque & power base generate. Cooper's striking was the opposite..angry intentions w every punch. Ali's legs & hands weren't in synch to punch w any serious power behind them. He definitely got much better. He was still so green back then

But,Ali is the greatest

CONSIDERING THE FACT THAT WE SEE A YOUNG ALI IN THIS FIGHT I AGREE TOTALY I WOULD SAY THIS WAS HIS TOUGHEST OPPONENT SO FAR , HENRY IMPRESSED THE GREATEST !

@syed fayaz...but in this case he was the luckiest.

IF THAT WAS TODAY AND THE REF HAD GONE TO THE OTHER BOXERS CORNER WHEN HE SHOULD BE COMING OUT OTHER THE BOXER WOULD BE JUMPING UP AND DOWN

Doug Helms Young and still learning... and in his very next fight became World Heavyweight Champion...😊 To add to his Olympic Gold Medal...😊

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That must have been something to have seen live. I really never knew this fight was that good, until I watched it here. It was a true slug fest.

But at that time was young Cassius Clay as famous the GOAT Muhammad Ali of 1964 Sonny Liston or 1974 of Foreman ( ZAIRE today RDC ? )

First fight I ever saw, and don't think I've missed a heavyweight fight ever since. We all rave about Ali, Tyson, and Lewis, but a man who never got the credit he deserved was Larry Holmes. I rate him right up with those guys.

@@thewatchman6074 what about rocky Balboa. I watched a documentary when he fought Apollo creed and was very unlucky not to have won. Rocky Balboa should be up there with best of all time

Still young Ali? Two words... Mike Tyson

yea it showed he got his ass whooped

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Darren Scotchbrook... WHERE’S MY MOUTHPIECE? 3 words from a Prime Mike Tyson when he fought Buster Douglas..

Did lomachenko get like a shit ton of low blows from Salido, that counted?

@Senior Billy Bull Judging by your lenghthy rebuttal, if you like, and signing off as a military inductee, your bias in favour of serving in the armed forces, becomes apparent. I would agree to disagree with you that Ali was coerced in following a certain agenda to appease the media and the personilities you mentioned. I think Ali had the foresight and courage to state "I ain't got no problem with the Vietcong and there would be no justification on my part to fight them". Especially stating that boldly in the very prime years of his boxing success, makes him a person of great integrity. Anyway, those who were against the illegal war in Vietnam and against the war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lybia, Syria and so on and so on, gains my utmost respect. Probably for that reason he earned my admirable respect and not for idolising him through the nefarious agenda of the media. I, personally approach the MSM with a jaundiced view, anyway. In fact the people who fell for "weapons of mass destruction" mantra were unwittingly and mindlessly brainwashed to believe that blatant lie spurned by the MSM. Perhaps I should end this conversation with an apt and pertinant book to read by Smedley Butler, viz, 'War is a racket' or a doccie called " All wars are banksters wars".

@Senior Billy Bull I would concur with a lot you have said, but to reiterate my main point about the smartness about Ali's superior boxing skill is ultimate in his showdown with 'rope-dope' powerhouse George Foreman, who extinguished 'smoking' Joe's career for good. I say that respectably because both Joe Frazier and George Foreman I have the highest regard for not only for their boxing skills but for their humanity as well.

He was a pure boxing sportsman

I would have had no idea what "heart" meant if not for your lame emoji.

how about the curled punch with sonny Liston give me a break you have just convinced me your on drugs to believe that clay won that fight go see a doctor about your brain if you have one HA HA HA HA

More likely that he was still adjusting from the amateur to the professional ranks, and had yet to develop the killer instinct of a pro. Compare with his fights against Williams in '66 or Foley in '67, and you'll see a different kind of fighter who has learned the animal instinct to go in for the kill.

@@raycommisso6448 His killer instinct had gone AWOL the night Joe Frazier beat the living daylights out of him.also beaten 3 times by Ken Norton and several more boxers. Leon Spinks had only 7 pro fights before slapping him around like a rag doll.

It took all these years and you white people still can't get over it. Let's face that white dude did not have a chance.

@@haroldwilson6015 you are a racist sir

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Sonny Banks dropped him first .

First time I've seen the whole fight - the knock down was deserved.

Me too...

He suffered badly with cuts but his boxing skills were up there

Had Cooper got a chance to challenge the champ Sonny Liston before Ali did the following year, he would have had a great chance to beat Liston, who was in decline at this time (1964). Internationally Cooper was/is very much underrated. Unfortunately he got cut so easily and therefore lost some important fights, he otherwise could have won, at least on points.

Coopers management team always said they would let Henry fight Ali every week, but they wouldn’t let him in the same town as Liston let alone the same ring Cooper himself wanted no part of Liston

And Clay's Bitch!

Cooper was tough no doubt. War is war, He couldn't give em' but he sures can take em'

The pleasure of meeting Henry Cooper in later years. A lovely man, and as you say, a true gent.

hander bars almighty

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