[lit-ideas] Re: Hereabouts & pound for pound fighters
- From: david ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2020 21:28:38 -0800
On Feb 23, 2020, at 8:46 PM, Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
David, interesting stuff. I too have taken a bit of an interest in boxing
this past week – sort of tricked into it on Youtube: one video leading to the
another.
You tube will do that to you.
The amount I know about boxing could fill a whole postcard. Where I grew up
there was a pub that somehow accommodated Henry Cooper, who was famous for
knocking Muhammed Ali to the ground, which when your arms are shorter by four
inches, is a feat. “If that had just been off them bloody ropes,” was Cooper’s
comment.
According to Cooper:
[Ali] always said that in the fifteenth round of the Frazier
<
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Frazier> fight, he went down more from
exhaustion, but 'the punch Cooper hit me with, he didn't just shake me. He
shook my relations back in Africa.'[17]
<
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Ali_vs._Henry_Cooper#cite_note-Facing_Ali_36-17>
By the time of the second fight, Ali had figured Cooper out.
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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