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by the media, the Doug Jones fight,

I told him in one part of that

fight, "Get your hands up. "

And he got the heck kicked out of him.

I said, "Put your hands down. "

This is the criteria, because

everybody kept their hands up.

No big man ever moved like

that and this was the key.

He was special. And you're as good

as your talent you work with.

And Muhammad made me shine.

This is BBC Television.

Well, no doubt

about the top feature

in tonight's specially lengthened

edition of Sportsview,

because everyone

is still talking

about the fight between Cassius

Clay and Henry Cooper.

I knew the English pub were

tremendous.

I knew for a fact they weren't

gonna like him the first time,

'cause he talked too much.

I knew they

wouldn't like Muhammad.

When we first went there, we didn't see

nobody. The people didn't like him.

And we're fighting the hero, Henry Cooper.

And he'd gone, "Five. Five. "

People didn't go for that, you know?

But he was just having fun.

And Cassius Clay,

the gimmick man to the last,

comes into the ring with this

monster crown on his head

and all the way

down to the ringside,

through the rows of people

with umbrellas,

People were throwing things and trying

to knock the crown off his head.

So here we go.

It's the fight of the year.

Clay from the right-hand corner

against Cooper of Britain.

And Clay has said, "I'll beat

him in five. " We'll see.

And Cooper's left eye is

a very sorry sight indeed.

- And he's teasing Cooper.

- Round four.

Henry Cooper, you know,

was well loved by everybody.

I can see why.

And, it was a great night.

After all,

he hit my guy on the chin.

Dropped him. He slid down the ropes.

It was dramatic.

And thank God

the ropes were there.

That was the end

of the fourth round.

And he hit him about two seconds

before the end of the round.

He came back to the corner

and I was chewing him up.

They're working furiously

on him in the corner.

Angelo Dundee, his trainer, he

really is giving him a talking-to.

Cooper's left

hook finally scores

and Clay was down two seconds

from the end of the fourth round.

And out they

come for round five.

And now he's stepping in, and I

think this is it for Cooper.

The towel has come in

from Cooper's corner.

There was no alternative.

He had to stop the fight.

Inside, Frank Butler asked Clay if he

still thought Henry Cooper was a bum.

He's not a bum. I must admit, I

really underestimated the fella.

My nose has never bled

until I fought him

and his left hook was as good or

better than the people had predicted.

And I must say he had me on the floor

at the end of the fourth round.

I've never...

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