The following morning several members of Ali’s staff went to the Desert Springs Hospital and tried to purchase an ultrasound machine and a muscle stimulator. He said he just wanted to lie down for a moment. Ali fought the fifth and sixth rounds like a man in a semi-daze. Muhammad Ali does not smoke, so they could not offer him a final cigarette. [7] However, the announcement came as a surprise to the boss of the stadium, who said it was "all new to me." After that, Ali didn’t throw a single meaningful punch. Copyright © 2020 The Daily Californian, The Independent Berkeley Student Publishing Co., Inc. “You’ll eat him alive.”, Satisfied, Ali went on, “I've got myself to the point where I’m so psyched, it’s either life or death. Copyright © 2020 The Daily Californian, The Independent Berkeley Student Publishing Co., Inc. Now you know why he pays his sparring partners $1,000 a week and offers them a $10,000 bonus if they can knock him down. “He was averaging 75 punches a round,” said Giachetti. Don King breaking the tradition of promoters being neutral stated “Ali is the greatest of all time, but he will meet his Waterloo in Holmes, the baddest heavyweight in the world today. The referee came over in the third round and said your corner said I was thumbing you. In Easton, part of his roadwork was on a hill that soared nine-tenths of a mile almost straight up. Now night time, but under the hot television lights, the temperature remained the same. He lost at least 37 pounds in a very short period. Holmes was on him quickly: four jabs, a right, a hook, two jabs, a hook to the kidneys, a three-punch combination almost too fast to follow, and then a barrage that probably would have destroyed half of the heavyweight division. In fact, I find him amusing. On August 29 Ali broke camp and came to New York and sparred seven rounds before a crowd of more than 1,000 at the Felt Forum in Madison Square Garden. “Hit! [10], Ali overused the medication Thyrolar while training, which probably contributed to his sluggish performance during the fight. It wasn’t there. Then he hooked Ali to the temple and drilled a right to the head. The use of hand-held cameras and synchronous sound allowed the story to tell itself. I’m the chief second. And then the fight started in Ali’s corner. While sipping coffee in his room, Dundee put his fear into words. But while no one knew for certain then, this was to be his final victory. Naturally I was happy, happy that I won, because you can never take that for granted before any fight; happier that the mess the fight became was over; happiest that Ali was behind me and that I could get on with my career. Ali was known for taking it easy on his sparring partners but he would usually open up for 10 or 15 seconds at the end of a round. Liver damage. It was as close as Ali would come to winning a round. When he wasn’t blinking, he just stared, as if trying to make out a figure moving swiftly through a fog. The preliminary examinations found no proof of kidney damage and Dr. Frank Howard would report that Ali appeared to be in ‘excellent general medical health’. The people wanted their fight, even though someone’s brain was at stake. Today, this, of course, is a big no-no, but hey, it’s Vegas! With Muhammad Ali that was no problem at all; he was totally likeable. I fed you. Check. Of all the fights Ali could have picked to study, this showed Holmes at his worst. The sellout crowd, which had paid a record $6,200,000, began to chant, “Ali! I can’t lose this fight. Holmes came out with a rush, and Ali tried to fend him off with a wild looping right that missed. He’s like a bad dream, like a junkie hooked on drugs or a movie star hooked on the cameras. All I want to do is go out there and get the monkey off my back. I knew it was hopeless. The betting odds which had opened at 3-1 for Holmes soon dropped to 2-1 then 9-5. He smirked and winked. I hadn't seen Ali again for many years, when I was crossing Broadway in New York City one afternoon, and heard someone shouting, "Hey Al! There’s really not much to say about Holmes, which, ironically, is a topic everyone discusses in the documentary. Ali’s neurological exam was conducted by Dr. Frank Howard. His stories “A Darkness Made to Order” and “A Ghost Orbiting Forever” both won first place awards from the BWAA. at Syracuse and his M.A. Less than three years later, he developed Parkinson’s disease, and people started to wonder if it was a result of the Holmes fight. “Next I want to fight Mike Weaver, the WBA champion,” Ali said. Get the hell away from me. Ali’s projected weight by fight time was to be around 221 lbs the same as what it was when he had defeated Leon Spinks in his last fight two years earlier. You can’t get water out of a dry well.”, It had almost ended in the fourth. Despite these warning signs that Ali was perhaps showing early signs of brain damage, Dr. Howard felt there were no specific findings to prohibit him from fighting. Clip ». Larry Holmes vs Muhammad Ali Thanks for watching "COACH STROUT'S CLASSIC FIGHTS". When Ali spars he’s playing; when Larry spars he’s all business.”. Why? I’ve shot off my big mouth too much. In 1964, I first filmed the young Ali (then, of course, known as Cassius Clay) as he fought and defeated Sonny Liston in Florida, and was crowned World Champion. Then the smile was gone; the moment became serious. I took to Twitter before writing this piece on the Muhammad Ali vs. Larry Holmes fight to jump-start my inspiration, and in my feed were some Ali quotes courtesy of Bleacher Report. This is why he dyes his graying hair, grows a mustache, and gives himself the zany nickname “Dark Gable.” (A year or so earlier, he was “The Black Henry Kissinger” for a spell.) Ali announced his retirement in June 1979. I’d probably never feel my face again, but $8 million still sounds pretty good. Name of article. Also troubling to Ali’s corner men was the fact that despite fighting under hot lights in the heat of the desert, Ali was not sweating. [1] [2] The fight was estimated to have been watched by a record 2 billion viewers worldwide. When Ali’s drug use became public knowledge, Dr. Williams would backtrack on his original diagnosis by acknowledging that the drugs he had given Ali would have affected his self cooling mechanisms causing a rise in his body temperature. The question hung in the air like the blade of a guillotine. Ali!” Grim no longer, Ali lunged as though to attack Holmes but was restrained by Dundee and Assistant Trainer Wali Youngblood. Here is some information to get you started learning about what made Lyle so special: Discover more books from Hamilcar Publications. Ali’s one day record was 517. Impressive? Muhammad Ali vs Larry Holmes on October 2, 1980. He could have…, [QUOTE=Duncan]The article was decent. Mike Tyson is teasing a return, but against current world champion Tyson Fury? By watching the sparring tapes before the match, it’s obvious that Holmes was faster, stronger and more equipped to win. If Ali stays in front of me, he’s gonna get knocked out early, period. Mobile site. The crowd is screaming, chanting, ‘Ali, Ali, Ali.’ Legends [pause] die hard.” —Howard Cosell, “The night of the fight, he had no strength. By the fourth round Ali, an exhausted man trying to survive, had an ugly bruise under his left eye. After the Shavers bout Pacheco had examined Ali’s medical reports and determined that Ali’s kidneys were damaged from the ravages of boxing. Earthbound, at last, “The Greatest,” the man who set you up with pristine gear in Deer Lake, PA, after years of raggedy odds and ends in rickety gyms, the man who let you have the first real gift you ever got in boxing: a shiner you considered the purest souvenir. Once Ali began taking Thyrolar his condition immediately began to steadily and noticeably deteriorate. Copyright © 2020 | MH Magazine WordPress Theme by MH Themes, Carlos Acevedo is an award-winning boxing writer and was the founder of The Cruelest Sport and is a member of the Boxing Writers Association of America. He had pulled a muscle. They say I got brain damage. I’m gonna get out of my rocking chair and whip your butt.” —Muhammad Ali, “That’s the same old broken record I’ve been hearing as long as I can remember. But he can’t get to us. “It's no contest,” said Kilroy. I finally told him, ‘If you don’t start throwing punches in this round, I’m going to stop this fight.’ When he came back to the corner after the tenth round, I stopped it. On July 17, 1980, Ali and Holmes signed to fight on October 2 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Most definitely — I still can’t find a word to rhyme with orange, but I’m positive Ali, with all his prosey pretentiousness, could find about five. The punch had caused a severe bone bruise and soft-tissue trauma in the carpal bones of the wrist and the metacarpal bone junction just above the thumb. I don’t know any boxer, retired or not, who would, at 38 years old, willingly step into a ring with the defending World Boxing Council heavyweight champion. This will be Ali’s last hurrah. If I can knock him out with my first punch, then that is what I am going to do.”. never were.’” —Larry Holmes, “I thought they should have stopped it in the sixth round. Williams would then admit that this “led to heat exhaustion that went into heat stroke with an intermediate period of slight stupor and maybe delirium.”  Williams then stated, “I may have placed him in jeopardy inadvertently.”. 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