The first fight was not fixed, but I heard that after that fight, the doctor said Ali should have not continued after he seemed to have trouble seeing and standing, but the doctor relied on the ref as he was a veteran in the ring. The second fight was fixed, Ali told those that were close to him that Liston just went down and Ali only connected with air.

"I have this Nightmare. I'm on 5th avenue watching the St. Patrick's Day parade and I have a coronary and nine thousand cops march happily over my body." Chief Sidney Green