Sir Henry Cooper recalls 1963 fight against Muhammad Ali: full interview

Sir Henry Cooper recalls 1963 fight against Muhammad Ali: full interview; Sir Henry Cooper interview SOT - RELATIONSHIP WITH ALI: I'm quite friendly with it, when we were younger, we were rivals so didn't want to get friendly. When I was fighting Ali the first and second time, promoter had week before the fight to get together. I never wanted to be with him. I don't want to be near him,,. don't want to say he's not a bad fella, wrong attitude, got to go in the ring with him. He was a character, very controversial as a young man. Don't think he helped himself when America was at war with Vietnam, people losing sons and he came out with a statement Viet Kong don't call me nigger. I've got nothing against them. A lot of people in America, still don't forgive him. We in this country, took to him. British public took to him before the American public took to him. - He's very good. always comes out with a marvellous line - Cooper hit me so hard, didn't only shake me, he shook my relations in Africa. A great line. He admitted it was one of the hardest punches. Only put on the floor after that with Fraser. He went down more from exhaustion, but the punch I hit him with, he said it was the punch that did the damage - RE MEETING UP WITH ALI TOMORROW: Looking forward to it. Last time I met him, his daughter in her 20s was only a baby - must have been 15-18 years ago. He's not ga ga. he knows me and who I am and the people around him. When you look at him as a young man and he was talking, all them ad libs he used to do, well rehearsed ad libs - that was that Bundini [phonetic] he was a character, put bums on seats. A lot of people liked him, many disliked him and wanted to see him get beat
Sir Henry Cooper recalls 1963 fight against Muhammad Ali: full interview; Sir Henry Cooper interview SOT - RELATIONSHIP WITH ALI: I'm quite friendly with it, when we were younger, we were rivals so didn't want to get friendly. When I was fighting Ali the first and second time, promoter had week before the fight to get together. I never wanted to be with him. I don't want to be near him,,. don't want to say he's not a bad fella, wrong attitude, got to go in the ring with him. He was a character, very controversial as a young man. Don't think he helped himself when America was at war with Vietnam, people losing sons and he came out with a statement Viet Kong don't call me nigger. I've got nothing against them. A lot of people in America, still don't forgive him. We in this country, took to him. British public took to him before the American public took to him. - He's very good. always comes out with a marvellous line - Cooper hit me so hard, didn't only shake me, he shook my relations in Africa. A great line. He admitted it was one of the hardest punches. Only put on the floor after that with Fraser. He went down more from exhaustion, but the punch I hit him with, he said it was the punch that did the damage - RE MEETING UP WITH ALI TOMORROW: Looking forward to it. Last time I met him, his daughter in her 20s was only a baby - must have been 15-18 years ago. He's not ga ga. he knows me and who I am and the people around him. When you look at him as a young man and he was talking, all them ad libs he used to do, well rehearsed ad libs - that was that Bundini [phonetic] he was a character, put bums on seats. A lot of people liked him, many disliked him and wanted to see him get beat
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