why does it say holmes tko11 ali?
after TEN completed rounds the fight was stopped by ali's corner. the bell never rang for the eleventh round, therfore this fight should be, and WAS announced as, holmes tkoend of 10 ali.
ALI & HOLMES RECORDS INCORRECT
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NO we're not, because the correct result is an 11th round tko. Here's an excerpt from the NY Times regarding the fight:
October 3, 1980
Holmes Stops Ali and Keeps Heavyweight Title
By MICHAEL KATZ
AS VEGAS, Nev. -- 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.
That's why.
October 3, 1980
Holmes Stops Ali and Keeps Heavyweight Title
By MICHAEL KATZ
AS VEGAS, Nev. -- 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.
That's why.