Ali vrs Henry Cooper II(1966)

[Brutu]

I saw this on Ali's greatest hits on ESPN Classic,yeasterday.
It looked to me,that the reason Cooper all the sudden started gushing blood from his head was not because of any punch, but because of a clash of heads when Cooper had pressed Ali in a corner( with Cooper throwing punches with bad intentions) and Ali slided out side ways real fast,but observe their heads banging togeter while he was doing that.
INMOP. it should have went to the score cards to see who was ahead on points when the fight was halted because Cooper was gushing blood from the injury,not a TKO.

[Collins2000]

I saw this on Ali's greatest hits on ESPN Classic,yeasterday.
It looked to me,that the reason Cooper all the sudden started gushing blood from his head was not because of any punch, but because of a clash of heads when Cooper had pressed Ali in a corner( with Cooper throwing punches with bad intentions) and Ali slided out side ways real fast,but observe their heads banging togeter while he was doing that.
INMOP. it should have went to the score cards to see who was ahead on points when the fight was halted because Cooper was gushing blood from the injury,not a TKO.

I don't believe that sort of rule was in effect at the time.

[john2345]

the scorecards rule didn't come into effect till much later....at that time if you were stopped on a cut you lost, except of course your opponent was disqualified which was rare.

I can't recall exactly if Ali opened the cuts with his head, but Cooper cut very easily and a few well placed punches would almost certainly have done serious damage in any case.

J

[the8thround]

The second fight was easier for Ali though...Ali was a champ at his prime and Cooper was older..