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HAPPY BIRTHDAY

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

To the "Greatest" of all time. He's 66 today. There he is, standing over Sonny Liston, in Lewiston Maine, May 25, 1965, having thrown "the phantom punch." Only a real boxing aficionado could tell you that former heavyweight champ Jersey Joe Wallcott was the third man in the ring that night. (And only a real boxing trivia buff could tell you that Jersey Joe, who when he won the heavyweight championship at age 37 became at the time the oldest person to win the title, was born Arnold Raymond Cream. "Jersey Arnold" just doesn't have the same ring to it.)You can see a tape of perhaps the most controversial first round in heavyweight championship history HERE.Don't blink, or you'll miss the vicious left that puts Liston on the canvas. Ali trained right here in Miami, at the 5th Street Gym, which is no longer in existence...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on January 17, 2008 (boomark / email).