When I was a kid I was lucky to be able to go to boxing matches for I had an Uncle that was a pro boxer in Southern Cal. When the hype about the Cassius Clay, Sonny Liston fight started there was such a buzz everyone wanted to see it, some wanted the Brawling Bully to stomp the Mouth and others wanted to see the Brute stopped by the Sweet Science you know float like a butterfly and sting like a bee...

I got tickets with my paper route money to take my step dad to the Pantages theater to watch pay per veiw of the fight, I was amazed of all the people there and the yelling and screaming. They introduced so many old time boxers like Primo Canero(sp?) and others it was a treat for so many of these guys had fought with my uncle.... When the fight started I thought I would see the greatest fight of all time but then all of a sudden there is Listen laying on the floor Clay standing over him and for a brief moment taunting him... never saw the punch till years later and even then I still don't know if I saw it... But Ali was the most by any measurement boxer, promoter and entertainer... No. 1 in my book...