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I remember my Dad taking me to my first 'Alamo' movie when I was little. Dueling the film I asked him if we could leave before the end because I didn't want to see Davy get killed. I grew up watching Fess Parker's Davy on Disney so I knew what was coming. Of course he wouldn't leave but now I wonder at my innocence and where it's gone with the youth of today. I suspect what I felt at that age, I'd guess 9-10 is gone by 4-5 today. But maybe that's just me.
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The "phantom punch" knockout. Ali did connect, but it's hard to imagine how this punch, which was not much more than a jab, did that much damage to a fighter like Liston.

Who knows for sure though?

 
NBHorn7 said:
The "phantom punch" knockout. Ali did connect, but it's hard to imagine how this punch, which was not much more than a jab, did that much damage to a fighter like Liston.
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I'll take a stab at an explanation. Watching the slow motion, it didn't really appear to be a jab but more of a right cross where there is a lot more power generated by the shoulder and chest muscles. In addition Liston was moving into the punch, off balance and didn't seem to see it coming. I just watched a video of the full first round in that first round knock out, a minute ago and Ali had hit him with a similar punch earlier in the round. But what do I know about boxing? Nada thing.

I remember at the time Ali claimed it was an "anchor punch" that he had learned from Jack Johnson, presumably by watching film since Johnson died when Ali was 4.
 
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Joe Fan said:
I was at this game

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My brother and I were in the NEZ seats, Redding did his flip right in front of us.

That was also the Cole Pittman game where Major took a knee to preserve the 44 point score. I didn't know what he was doing at the time. It was genius, whoever had the idea to do that.
 
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