Damn you henry cooper!

[NakiFan]

6 seconds, and cooper SWEARS BLIND that it was a good 5 minutes, i mean why lie, and why hasn't he been stripped of hisknighthood for such dishonest lying?

[Spacey1991]

Fight with Cassius Clay
'Cooper fought Cassius Clay twice, firstly in a non-title fight in 1963 at Wembley Stadium, when Cooper knocked Clay down in the dying seconds of the fourth round with his trademark left hook, "Enry's 'Ammer". The bell rang before Cooper could try to complete a knockout. Clay was literally, "saved by the bell." Prior to the fight Clay's trainer Angelo Dundee had noticed a small tear in one of Clay's gloves but didn't bring it to the referee's attention. With Clay now staggered from the knock down, Dundee opened up the tear with his finger and told the referee that his fighter needed a new pair of gloves, thus delaying the start of the 5th round.[3] Cooper has always insisted that this delay lasted anywhere from 3-5 minutes and denied him the chance to try to knock Clay out while he was still dazed. When the 5th round finally started, Clay ferociously attacked Cooper's cuts, leaving Cooper's face streaming with blood and referee Tommy Little was forced to stop the fight in the American's favour.

The British boxing newspaper Boxing News conducted an investigation into the 'split glove' incident in 2003. Using the original television and radio broadcasts to determine length of time between rounds 4 and 5 it was discovered that Cassius Clay only gained 5 seconds extra and not the mythical 3-5 minutes. The gloves were never changed. Other sources on the matter confirm this.[4] [5] After this fight a spare pair of gloves were always required at ringside. What is certain however, is that Dundee broke a phial containing an unknown substance and held it under Clay's nose in an effort to revive his man, which was illegal.[6] Clay was obviously impressed by the knockdown and on the 40th anniversary telephoned Cooper to reminisce. Clay who had changed his name to Muhammad Ali in 1964, later said, on British television, that Cooper "had hit [him] so hard that his ancestors in Africa felt it". In 1966 they met a second time at Arsenal Stadium in London to contest the world title. Cooper succumbed again to his weakness, a tendency to cut, and Ali went on to be "The Greatest".'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cooper_(boxer)

[winac]

Fight with Cassius Clay
'Cooper fought Cassius Clay twice, firstly in a non-title fight in 1963 at Wembley Stadium, when Cooper knocked Clay down in the dying seconds of the fourth round with his trademark left hook, "Enry's 'Ammer". The bell rang before Cooper could try to complete a knockout. Clay was literally, "saved by the bell." Prior to the fight Clay's trainer Angelo Dundee had noticed a small tear in one of Clay's gloves but didn't bring it to the referee's attention. With Clay now staggered from the knock down, Dundee opened up the tear with his finger and told the referee that his fighter needed a new pair of gloves, thus delaying the start of the 5th round.[3] Cooper has always insisted that this delay lasted anywhere from 3-5 minutes and denied him the chance to try to knock Clay out while he was still dazed. When the 5th round finally started, Clay ferociously attacked Cooper's cuts, leaving Cooper's face streaming with blood and referee Tommy Little was forced to stop the fight in the American's favour.

The British boxing newspaper Boxing News conducted an investigation into the 'split glove' incident in 2003. Using the original television and radio broadcasts to determine length of time between rounds 4 and 5 it was discovered that Cassius Clay only gained 5 seconds extra and not the mythical 3-5 minutes. The gloves were never changed. Other sources on the matter confirm this.[4] [5] After this fight a spare pair of gloves were always required at ringside. What is certain however, is that Dundee broke a phial containing an unknown substance and held it under Clay's nose in an effort to revive his man, which was illegal.[6] Clay was obviously impressed by the knockdown and on the 40th anniversary telephoned Cooper to reminisce. Clay who had changed his name to Muhammad Ali in 1964, later said, on British television, that Cooper "had hit [him] so hard that his ancestors in Africa felt it". In 1966 they met a second time at Arsenal Stadium in London to contest the world title. Cooper succumbed again to his weakness, a tendency to cut, and Ali went on to be "The Greatest".'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cooper_(boxer)

Yeah I read that as well. Can you even take off a pair of gloves, find some new ones lace them up and then tape them ( if they did that then ) in one minute 5 seconds? and that is assuming they started the process as soon as the round ended

[Spacey1991]

Yeah I read that as well. Can you even take off a pair of gloves, find some new ones lace them up and then tape them ( if they did that then ) in one minute 5 seconds? and that is assuming they started the process as soon as the round ended

Exactly, Cooper was just being bitter, end of story... the thing that revived him wasn't right though...

[Ray*]

And the worst thing is listening to all his oap nuthuggers going Our Enry! they aint noo good these days, they aint like our enry! and im like "what you mean we actually have world class fighters instead of lying bums?

lmao or the classic one "They dont make them like our 'enry anymore"...

[Silencers]

They didn't replace Ali's glove, look at the fight film, there wasn't much of a delay at all in between rounds.

[NakiFan]

Thank god they don't make em like our enry!

[Arka]

Great thread.

Watching the internet videos of 'Our 'enry' getting brutally KTFO by Johansson and Patterson was one of the great pleasures in all my years as a boxing fan.

[NakiFan]

"Our Enry" OUR ****ING ENRY, if i ever see that old fraud, man he will be sorry for the misery he put me through.

[$partacus]

Would Ali have recovered if they didn't stick that crap under his nose? and why didn't the result get changed to a DQ for using it?