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Originally posted by Turnbull:
Ali and Johanssen never fought.
My favorite fighter (as opposed to the best fighter) was a Cuban welterweight, Kid Gavilan,
Ok, I remember watching something about ALI on televison and could have sworn that they said that Clay fought Johansson early in his career. I just did a search for Ali's matches and it turns out that Clay and Johansson sparred back in 1961. My bad. I knew that I heard about them fighting, but didn't know that it was only a sparring match.

Hey TB, when I was a kid I went through a phase where I was really into boxing. So my dad bought me some 8MM films for my 8MM projector ( remember those? ) and I remember seeing some films on guys like Kid Gavelin, Kid Chocolate, Willie Pep, Sandy Sandler, Bobo Olsen, Carmen Basilio, Lulu Perez, etc.

I think that I still have some of those 8MM films somewhere. Now after reading this topic, I'm itching to view them again.


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