Cassius Clay vs. Sonny Banks was a professional boxing match contested on February 10, 1962.[1]
Date | February 10, 1962 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Venue | Madison Square Garden, New York City, New York | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tale of the tape | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Result | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Clay won by TKO in 4rd round (0:26) |
The fight
editClay won the fight through a technical knockout when the referee stopped the fight in the fourth round. The event is remembered for being the first professional boxing match in which Ali was officially knocked down in the ring by his boxing opponent.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][note 1]
Undercard
editConfirmed bouts:[13]
Notes
editReferences
edit- ^ "Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Banks". boxrec.com. BoxRec. Retrieved 19 March 2024.
- ^ "Muhammad Ali's ring record". ESPN. 19 November 2003. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
- ^ Thomas Hauser (1991). Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times. Simon & Schuster. pp. 43–6.
- ^ Felix Dennis; Don Atyeo (2003). Muhammad Ali: The Glory Years. miramax books. p. 62.
- ^ David Remnick (1998). King of the World. Random House. pp. 121.
- ^ "Mississippi's Sonny Banks was the first pro boxer to knock down Muhammad Ali". Sun Herald. 7 July 2016. Retrieved 7 October 2016.
- ^ "The Muhammad Ali I knew: A tribute by the late Bill Gallo". Daily News. 5 June 2016. Retrieved 7 October 2016.
- ^ "Clay Arrives In Town, Speaks Of Many Things". Sumter Daily Item. 5 February 1962. Retrieved 7 October 2016.
- ^ "Clay Predicts Early Knockout". Toledo Blade. 10 February 1962. Retrieved 7 October 2016.
- ^ "Cocky Clay finds Banks Tough Foe". The Spokesman Review. 12 February 1962. Retrieved 7 October 2016.
- ^ Ferdie Pacheco (2003). A View from the Corner. Birch Lane Press. pp. 61–4.
- ^ Stephen Brunt (2002). Facing Ali. The Lyons Press. p. 223.
- ^ "BoxRec - event".
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