On This Day In ’62: Cassius Clay Gets Up To Make Good On His “Banks Must Fall In Four” Prediction
Throughout his career, Muhammad Ali was felled just four times, three times by left hooks. The knockdown Henry Cooper scored in June of 1963 is legendary, with tales circulating for years of how Ali was given anything up to a two-minute break after his trip south, this due to the glove his trainer Angelo Dundee had “purposely torn” so as to buy time.