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Originally posted by QueensburyRules
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If this was true which it isnt,why would British TV deliberately excise that extra time from a fight in which the British fighter was the injured party?
By the way is his autobiography Cooper says a half to three quarters of a minute extra NOT several minutes! Neither does Dundee say several minutes I have the books!
I'm still waiting for a motive for the BBC splicing the film and cutting out any extra time allowed to let Ali recover?
Why Would They Do That?
Insults are not valid explanations,they are just signs of a limited vocabulary and, in your case ,a brain bereft of logical thought.
"But it's possible to cast doubt on this version of events with one of the most technical tools in the data-hungry journalist's arsenal - counting.
Listening to the audio recording of the fight with a stopwatch in hand, the truth emerges.
The gap between rounds one and two was exactly one minute.
The gap between rounds two and three was, again, exactly one minute.
Same again for rounds three and four.
But the gap between rounds four and five - the moment of the torn glove incident - was, precisely, one minute and six seconds.
In other words, only six seconds more than all the other intervals."
- At the beginning of round five, Clay came out and stood flatfooted. His punching was fast, furious and deadly accurate. The punches bounced off Cooper's head before he could even set himself to punch back. Cooper's left eye began to pour blood like a burst pipe. Although not dazed or seriously hurt, Cooper could not possibly go on. He looked like a man who had put his head in a shredder.
- "It's staggering how many people made mistakes writing about this. It's just rubbish," says Bunce.
"Sir Henry Cooper insisted it was minutes, most people say it was. But the gloves, they were never taken off. Dundee worked the tear, but by modern standards it was not a delay."
Boxing promoter Frank Warren does not believe Dundee tampered with the gloves at all
It has been reported that officials went back to the dressing room to get a pair of replacement gloves, but they were unable to find a pair. However, Teddy Waltham, then General Secretary of the British Boxing Board of Control, said that is not true.
"Referee Little was called to Clay's corner, and then shouted to us officials at ringside for a new pair, which I already had quite near," Waltham said. "There was no question of anyone having to go to the dressing room to get them, as has been suggested."
Harry Vines, who later became Chief Inspector for the BBBofC, also said that there were a suitable pair of replacement gloves at ringside. "I am not sure whether both gloves were replaced or just the split one, but the latter certainly was," he said. "Certainly no one had to go all the way back to the dressing room to get a pair."
It has also been reported that five minutes passed before the fifth round started, but ringside timekeeper Stan Courtney said that is false. "At no time was I instructed to stop my watch to allow for the refitting of the gloves," he said. "Therefore, I waited until I got the signal from referee Little to ring the bell. When I did so, my watch showed that the interval between rounds had in fact been 1:40."
At the beginning of round five, Clay came out and stood flatfooted. His punching was fast, furious and deadly accurate. The punches bounced off Cooper's head before he could even set himself to punch back. Cooper's left eye began to pour blood like a burst pipe. Although not dazed or seriously hurt, Cooper could not possibly go on. He looked like a man who had put his head in a shredder.
END OF!!!!! - "It's staggering how many people made mistakes writing about this. It's just rubbish," says Bunce.
"Sir Henry Cooper insisted it was minutes, most people say it was. But the gloves, they were never taken off. Dundee worked the tear, but by modern standards it was not a delay."
Boxing promoter Frank Warren does not believe Dundee tampered with the gloves at all
It has been reported that officials went back to the dressing room to get a pair of replacement gloves, but they were unable to find a pair. However, Teddy Waltham, then General Secretary of the British Boxing Board of Control, said that is not true.
"Referee Little was called to Clay's corner, and then shouted to us officials at ringside for a new pair, which I already had quite near," Waltham said. "There was no question of anyone having to go to the dressing room to get them, as has been suggested."
Harry Vines, who later became Chief Inspector for the BBBofC, also said that there were a suitable pair of replacement gloves at ringside. "I am not sure whether both gloves were replaced or just the split one, but the latter certainly was," he said. "Certainly no one had to go all the way back to the dressing room to get a pair."
It has also been reported that five minutes passed before the fifth round started, but ringside timekeeper Stan Courtney said that is false. "At no time was I instructed to stop my watch to allow for the refitting of the gloves," he said. "Therefore, I waited until I got the signal from referee Little to ring the bell. When I did so, my watch showed that the interval between rounds had in fact been 1:30."
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