The story of the torn glove





1963. Going to the championship, the young Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali), meets with an experienced English heavyweight Henry Cooper. The bout was on equal before the 4th round, after which Cooper sends a future champion to the canvas, and saves him from hitting the gong. I do not understand where he is, Clay goes to his corner, where he was trying to bring a second. To get more time to recover, the seconds Clay went to the trick. They break broken glove Clay and told the referee that we need to change it. Since spare gloves they had, second went to her in the locker room. Thus gain an extra minute, Clay was able to recover and in the next round held a series of good attacks, after which Cooper had a strong cut over the left eye and the fight was stopped.
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