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Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather are not even welterweights much less...
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Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather are not even welterweights much less P4P
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00Rooster4Life00 presents a small video i felt like make just a couple h...
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00Rooster4Life00 presents a small video i felt like make just a couple hours ago. it didnt take me very long to make, but i just had to make it =/
if you have any other sad boxing moments i could make, dont mind suggesting them.
There were no more miracles tonight for Muhammad Ali. At the age of 38 and after a two-year retirement, his attempt to win a fourth world heavyweight boxing championship ended with his sitting tired and battered on a stool, unable to answer the bell for the 11th round in his scheduled 15-round contest with Larry Holmes, his former sparring partner. In a setting almost as strange as Ali's career, the only threetime heavyweight champion in history was no match at all for the 30-year-old undefeated Holmes. At the end, Ali had a cut under his right eye, reddening under his left and he had suffered a bloody nose.
Lands Fewer Than 10 Punches
In 10 rounds, he landed fewer than 10 solid punches, and took what seemed like hundreds. Only his legendary courage and great chin prevented him from being knocked down.
After the ninth round, when a vicious right uppercut by Holmes had Ali's upper body draped briefly on the top strand of the ropes and another right to the kidney had Ali crouched over in pain, the former champion's longtime trainer, Angelo Dundee, asked him, "Do you want to do it?"
Ali tried one more round, but it was no different than any of the ones that preceded it. Holmes, oblivious to all of Ali's attempts at psychological warfare, hardly missed a punch. At the end of the 10th, Ali's manager, Herbert Muhammad, sent Pat Patterson, the Chicago policeman who is one of the fighter's security guards, to the corner with instructions to stop the fight, "because he's getting defenseless," said the manager.
Under World Boxing Council rules, the fight will go into the record book as an 11th-round knockout.
Brown Seeks to Continue
Dundee tried stopping the fight, but Drew (Bundini) Brown, the cornerman who had coined Ali's famous slogan, "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee," begged the ex-champion to go on.
Finally, Dundee told the referee, Richard Green, that it was all over. The remarkable career of one of the world's greatest athletes had ended in a parking lot as fireworks lighted up the clear desert night sky.
On a parking lot where spaces cost more than they do Saturday nights on Broadway ($500 for ringside), the greatest show in boxing history, and some will say the greatest heavyweight in history, closed.
The desert sun, which had broiled and often blinded the preliminary fighters in the temporary 24,790-seat arena constructed by Caesars Palace Hotel, had long set behind the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The fireworks were for Holmes.
The former Ali sparring partner from Easton, Pa., had scored his eighth knockout in the eighth defense of his W.B.C. title. He has been considered by almost all boxing experts as the finest heavyweight in the world since last year, when he knocked out Mike Weaver, who later went on to win the World Boxing Association version of the title Ali relinquished.
Taunts in the Ring
Holmes, taunted and teased by Ali in the ring ("I'm your master, I'm your teacher"), has always admired and respected his former employer.
"He was the greatest fighter in the world," Holmes said at his postfight news conference. "He's one hell of an athlete, one hell of a man. Even trying to win a fourth title is one hell of an achievement. He had a two-year layoff and then tried to fight the baddest heavyweight in the world."
The victory was Holmes's 36th, 27 by knockout, and his string of knockouts in title defenses is a heavyweight record. Joe Louis, among the many celebrities at ringside, twice knocked out seven challengers in a row, but in between, he was denied a knockout victory when Buddy Baer was disqualified for refusing to fight any more.
He slimmed down from 254 pounds to 217 1/2 by yesterday's weigh-in and proclaimed it "the first miracle." The second, he said, would come by defeating Holmes. But he was no match for the younger, faster and stronger man.
None of the three voting judges gave Ali a round. One, Duane Ford, gave Holmes a 2-point margin in the ninth round under the 10-point "must" scoring system.
The loss was Ali's fourth against 56 victories, and it was the first time he was ever stopped before the final bell. Nothing he tried worked against Holmes, whose 28-month reign as champion has brought him little recognition and appreciation. Holmes is a masterly boxer who in the past has demonstrated great courage and professionalism. His problem has been that he is not really that hard a hitter and, more importantly, he followed the colorful and charismatic Ali.
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I'm from L.A, and I'm a big Sugar Shane Mosley fan. I have also doubted Manny, since he fought De La Hoya, just like you did. After last night though; media aside; I don't know if Shane should want any of that - don't get me wrong, I know he'd take the fight, but dude! As far as belts, who cares about belts. I'm a fan of your VLOG Blood, but I think we just need to accept reality on this one. -PEACE
i smell hatin lol...give the guy his props u cant say u not trying to disrespect him or u cant say ur not trying to take anything away from him when u really are lol. not just pacquiao mayweather to
yo blood you got a point were just a fan and to tell you mayweather skills is like kobe and mj on the ring,,but he's not fighting opposition that is a threat to him. as a fan we want to see him fight oponnents that would really give him problems as if we dont know whats going to win the fight and chances are only 50/50...and mayweather instead choose easy fights and big payday..
Why dont you just delete your account and listen to other youtubers who REALLY know something about boxing and the history of boxing.res you cocksucker?? Fuck you. Armstrong had a streak where he lost 4 out of 5 fights early in his career. and even ealier out of 6 fights, 5 were ruled draws. furthermore he lost 3 out of his first 4 fights. he lost to fritzie zivic who has more losses on his record than kostya tszyu had wins in his pro career. you are a piece of shit. and i m sick of you. everybody is sick of you you ugly faggot motherfucker
You bitch around like a faggot.You are a hater, nothing more. Henry Armstrong himself is spinning in his grave when he hears your bullshit.Yeah, Pacquiao fought Cotto at 145 and not 147. Do you know why???? I will tell you , you dumb piece of shit!! Freddie Roach put that in the contract so that at fightnight it wont be like this : Pacquiao weighs 147 pounds and Cotto weighs 162 pounds. Would THAT HAVE BEEN A FAIR FIGHT FOR YOU?????????????????? COTTO OUTWEIGHING PACQUIAO BY 15 POUNDS?????????? FUCK YOU FUCK YOU
Great points Blood. Please disregard any other comments by the ones incapable of critical thinking and reading between the lines. I would love a rematch at 147lbs with a WELL-TRAINED COTTO, just like they did it in the 80s with the Leonards and Durans and Haglers.
Fuck you. Armstrong had a streak where he lost 4 out of 5 fights early in his career. and even ealier out of 6 fights, 5 were ruled draws. furthermore he lost 3 out of his first 4 fights.
he lost to fritzie zivic who has more losses on his record than kostya tszyu had wins in his pro career.
you are a piece of shit. and i m sick of you. everybody is sick of you you ugly faggot motherfucker
FUCK YOU
Now we all know why the fight was at 145lbs.