Muhammad Ali vs Doug Jones / 1963's Fight of the Year

[@Ukrainer01]

00:00 - Previous Fight 00:08 - Cassius Clay vs Charlie Powell 01:10 - Cassius Clay vs Doug Jones pre-fight 02:27 - Clay vs Jones 1st round 04:40 - Clay vs Jones 2nd round 07:00 - Clay vs Jones 3rd round 08:48 - Clay vs Jones 4th round 10:30 - Clay vs Jones 5th round 12:39 - Clay vs Jones 6th round 15:02 - Clay vs Jones 7th round 16:45 - Clay vs Jones 8th round 18:41 - Clay vs Jones 9th round 20:41 - Clay vs Jones 10th round 22:50 - Cassius Clay vs Doug Jones post-fight

[@randquadrozzi1280]

Thanks for the video.Never seen this fight.

[@user-dq5rl7rv1w]

Wow, Doug Jones really a worthy opponent, what a great battle

[@thomasbridges7323]

Yeah great history and I didn't know of the match here in Pittsburgh ahhhhh man this is good Doug was the man

[@llanitedave]

202.5 lb vs 188 lbs *heavyweight* bout. Man, times sure have changed!

[@RollingStoneZzzzz]

Double Wow! I grew up loving boxing from the 60s on. I don't remember Doug Jones! What a tough SOB! Clay honed his skills and obviously became The Greatest Of All Time! Then was robbed of his best years by 🤔 our own government. However...I rooted against him and was glad when Smokin Joe kicked his butt. Ali's mouth turned me off in thoes years! Double However...when Ali fought Chuck Wepner in 1975 I became a real Ali fan. Wepner never was on the canvas and was ONE tough SOB! Ali beat him bloody! I grew to love Ali for the Great Champion he was. Thanks for the memories Champ! RIP!🏆 🥊🥊 Das 😎 all!

[@craigfinley2507]

@@RollingStoneZzzzz chuck webner knocked him down didn't he, made Ali mad then Ali whipped his ass

[@RollingStoneZzzzz]

@@craigfinley2507 As I said Wepner was never down in his boxing career...not Ali. Das 😎 all.

[@tomcrosby6332]

Thanks for the post. I never heard of Jones, but he looked good.

[@waimeaguyz9074]

Doug Jones will be known is one of the best that fought Clay. He got Clays respect.

[@billsiems6514]

I was a sophomore in HS in 1963 and I remember the buildup for this fight and for Clay/Ali. He had burst on to the boxing scene after the 1960 Rome Olympics where he won the gold medal as a light-heavyweight. He worked his way up, his path carefully orchestrated by his career manager, Angelo Dundee. Dundee was to Clay/Ali what Col. Parker was to Elvis. In the buildup to the fight at Madison Square Garden, Johnny Carson, then in his first year hosting the "Tonight Show", then based in NYC, had Clay/Ali on the show. Clay brought the house down! His charisma, good looks, quick wit, his taunting and funny insults of then-champion, Sonny Liston, made for a great show. He and Johnny even fought a fake boxing match with Carson "knocking out Clay". He was already a star! After the fight, which the AP scored 5-4-1 for Jones, and myself, after watching the fight thought that Jones might have won, Carson came on his next show and was very critical of the decision. But the professional boxing gurus knew they had something with Clay, and there was no way he was going to lose before a huge championship fight with Liston. But after seeing this video, I think Clay definitely won a closer than expected fight. To the point, that July, 1963, Clay fought Henry Cooper in the UK. Cooper was known for his left hook, like Frazier later on, but Cooper was taller and leaner. Cooper caught Clay in about the 5th round and put him down into the ropes. Clay got up in time, lasted the round but was still cuckoo a bit at the end of the one-minute rest period between rounds. Dundee took a razor blade, cut Clay's glove, and when the rest period was over, showed the referee the cut glove, which then had to be replaced. That permitted Clay to clear his head with the extra time needed to change gloves. Clay won on TKO 2 rounds later - Cooper was a "cutter". True story! The next February, 1964, Clay fought Liston as 9-1 underdog, and executed probably the biggest "upset" in sports history. He provided a shot in the arm for boxing that was worth billions of dollars for the next 20 years. I loved boxing then. Now, they're a bunch of tomato cans.

[@joseyeastwood]

The future champ was in incredible shape because most fighters wouldn’t have been to withstand the pressure Doug put on Ali, what a great fight.

[@eddiepearce5307]

Good fight I thought Ali clearly won Jones got great chin Especially considering he weighed 188 Do not see it as a fight of the year though

[@EvanBarr-uk3vk]

Ali made 90,000$ in 1963 as a contender .Back then that was big $.

[@frankrice9520]

Ahhh my friend, TODAY that is big money for a contender…

[@anthonyrobinson-ew7hi]

Especially if don king is handling the money😂​@frankrice9520

[@thomasbridges7323]

Wow thanks didn't know that but damn Doug should had gotten paid .a lot top. Hell of a iron man played football too .

[@nivagnoswal]

great upload...i first got interested in boxing during the run-up to the first Liston-Clay fight...i was 10 years old...little did anyone know how impactful Clay (Ali) would turn out to be over the years....

[@willisknapick4405]

When I heard about this fight shortly after the event some were saying Jones should have won and Clay was fortunate to win. I'm not seeing that at all after watching this. Jones fought a good fight but there was a big difference between these two fighters. Clay, Ali, was clearly the better fighter.

[@craigallmendinger8404]

Jones had excellent defense. He was a very well-rounded fighter.

[@jeffreyedwindeleon5895]

Muhammad Ali is really fun to watch.. 💪😘 rest in paradise d'greatest! 🙌💕🙏

[@thomasbridges7323]

Thanks for this real boxing

[@Morongobill]

Ali getting tagged by Jones early when he dropped his arms backing away, did that repeat itself in Ali-Frasier 1?

[@craigfinley2507]

@@Morongobill yup

[@justinallport9789]

Always a southpaw's disadvantage"

[@RobollieG]

I miss the days when there weren't 27 different sanctioning bodies. It was cool to see the #3 guy go up against the #5 guy, and maybe the winner would go on to fight the Champ.

[@franklincvitan9777]

I have this fight on DVD Jones won the first round and that was it Ali landed so many combinations in every round easy decision for clay

[@thomasbridges7323]

Good match thanks

[@thomasbridges7323]

I am going to watch this again

[@richardcaulker1017]

It's hard to believe that less than one year after this lacklustre performance against the much smaller Jones, Clay took the title from the ko machine Sonny Liston in 6 rounds of awesome brilliance. The improvement is hard to explain.

[@devillehall6171]

No you can see it all here 😮....whats yourbproblem

[@RusselElcock]

Cassius Clay ,had he been around with technology Mohammed Ali would have been the "Greatest"still .He has died as the "Greatest" rip Champ 🏆

[@gmnboss]

She rebuked (disapproved of)him for insinuating she was going to throw hot water on him

[@alphonsebannick5842]

Early in his boxing career Ali plan was to go the full distance to gain experience and harden up and durability for his subsequent fights. This fight plan subsequently prepared him for the world title fights against heavy and unorthodox fighters...in his career towards the end of his boxing career. He was the best, poetry in motion and GOAT. His popularity transacted through generations. My 2 and half year old gra rand son even knows his name. RIP

[@mandolindleyroadshow706]

In the 5 years since I've watched this fight, watching this time I have changed my opinion. My memory was Jones was countering all night and Clay/Ali may have stole the decision (the crowd's boos also tainted my memory). Watching this time, I think Ali was busier than Jones, and rightly won the decision. It's also interesting that Ali weighed in at 202 pounds. His optimum weight was 212. So what would this fight have looked like had it happened around 1965, at the start of his prime, instead of Jan. '63?

[@paulrimmer391]

Amazing fight.

[@pukulu]

Clay only clinched on the inside. He was not a complete fighter although he did get stronger as he got older. Throughout his career he held behind the head and was never warned for it by the referee. He looked better in some fights than he did in others. Doug Jones was a bit light for a heavyweight and wasn't a big puncher.

[@clarencecolar3371]

Watch the fight

[@panmad6156]

I'm was a good ploy from Ali to predict the round, giving him a real incentive to get the job regardless of whwt the other guy was doing. It worked sometimes.

[@ashrafyoussef7957]

Two great fighters indeed.

[@thomascarroll39]

No such book was written before him becoming champion that I could find. Has anyone else?

[@rustynail766]

The referee who was one of the judges, scored it 8-1-1 Ali. Exactly correct!!!

[@philippeceline984]

*Qu'Ali était Beau en descendant du Ring Acclamé de Bravos* ...

[@bigowl71]

Clay was the underdog in this fight 💯✌🏿

[@tommosley2844]

Wrong, Clay was a 3 to 1 favorite.

[@jamaal7]

​@@tommosley2844en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassius_Clay_vs._Doug_Jones#%3A%7E%3Atext%3DClay_was_given_3-1%2Cvictory_in_the_fourth_round.?wprov=sfla1

[@user-ew5ke5cq8l]

Why Ali didn't use foot works?

[@RollingStoneZzzzz]

All being developed...early years... Das 😎 all.

[@bsorryrthatsit7055]

Why he never spoke about his Blackfeet heritage is unknown. "Clay" AKA Ali was related to the Indian bride of a Buffalo soldier. So Was Michael Jordan. Outspoken as a black Muslim, it never even get's mentioned. Maybe the resistance hurt everyone's little feeling's?

[@herbbranham821]

Huh

[@johnmccaffrey5942]

I thought a draw or narrower win for Jones would’ve been a fair result. Ali threw a lot but most not connecting.

[@Cliff589]

like most of his fights

[@anwarshareef172]

Yep a draw

[@MrJohnnyDistortion]

CC sure was pretty.

[@MrJohnnyDistortion]

FJB!

[@user-fk8lt2ky6n]

Ali did not have the power to knock out a good fighter but could wear him down and score with pity pat flurries that had no power at all...

[@RollingStoneZzzzz]

Like most fighters as training over years comes along fighters got stronger. Ali did put many fighters to sleep over the years. Das 😎 all. 👍🤔

[@craigfinley2507]

Y'all member Doug Jones was messing with Bumpy Johnson girl back then when he was in Alcatraz, he got out not to long after this fight cause Alcatraz closed

[@rovingwarrior3710]

Doug Jones was a close friend of Claude Brown, the author of the best selling book Manchild In the Promised Land in which Mr Brown tells of his life growing up in Harlem as a delinquent youth who turned his life around. Doug Jones is identioned in Mr. Brown's book as Turk. Bumpy Johnson's wife was the unnamed fence in the book that they used to deliver their stolen goods to.

[@anwarshareef172]

A draw

[@ShawnLee-se1zg]

What fight you was looking at

[@ShawnLee-se1zg]

Ali won ever round dude tried but wasn't fighting enough!!!

[@Dumpft666]

🤡

[@JesseFernandez-zj5ki]

Watch ali catching jones,when he getscornered,hanging on for dear life.thats his way of winning almost every fight.

[@CGWILLTHEWELLDRESSEDMAN55]

You're slow

[@stutzbearcat5624]

You can't even be serious with this CRAP resolution - i work writing music for videos so i know how they can fix this stuff up!

[@rovingwarrior3710]

So I take it that you can and will upload a bette version of it, and let us know.

[@bwoutchannel6356]

Looked like Doug Jones won.

[@RollingStoneZzzzz]

Close but Unanimously...no cigar! Das 😎 all. 👍🤔

[@llanitedave]

No, Jones got some good punches in, but Ali overwhelmed him with volume and speed.

[@ariveitz1941]

Not even close

[@paulhammack4882]

Ali got his butt whooped several times. He was a media darling had millions back in him and hit a popular political cause. I believe I could name eight boxers who were much better than him

[@timblessing2815]

I have mixed feelings on this issue. I was at ringside for the Jimmy Ellis fight, there thanks to an AP reporter, and saw how easily he slipped punches and, even then, how fast he was. Having said that, I am skeptical. For instance, had both Lewis and he fought, if Lewis had modern training, how that would ended. Similarly, throwing a right lead against Marciano was asking to wake up much later in a different place. I would have loved to have seen him against Jim Jeffries with equal training . . . it might be the Marciano problem all over again. And, of course, there is the question of Jack Johnson--who would have outsmarted who. I don't think Dempsey could have touched him. Tunney, another master strategist . . . that would have been interesting. He did, though. have granite for a chin.

[@jacobbyerson5075]

Please you out your mind who else could be stripped of his title for three years and get the title back who and beat George Foreman to do it

[@timblessing2815]

@@jacobbyerson5075 I well imagine that if Ali and Foreman fought 20 times Ali, despite his ability to take a punch, would have 2 wins.

[@johnsewell6593]

​@@timblessing2815I agree wholeheartedly. The only people more shocked than the crowd at the Foreman Fight were ALI and his cornermen. I agree , it was a lucky win and WAS - THE biggest win ( other than maybe the first Liston fight), of Ali's career. It was the fight that made him a LEGEND.

[@anthonyrobinson-ew7hi]

@paulhammack4882 most of white Americans wanted to see him move

[@jagriv5659]

And so Who is in the ring in 2024. Not interested in these people that most probably expired.

[@RollingStoneZzzzz]

These were the Glory days of boxing. My ONLY sport! Today boxing has lost its luster. I was there from the 1960s on been to many ringside fights and met ALOT of my favorite Champions. Boxing seems to have taken a back seat today. I miss the glory days of boxing! Das 😎 all! 🏆 🥇 🥊🥊

[@rovingwarrior3710]

Then why were you here?

[@RollingStoneZzzzz]

@@rovingwarrior3710 Are you a knife...if so not very sharp! The video was the glory days. Not 2024...Das 😎 all.🥊🥊

[@vivalasvegas2090]

Jones won robbed

[@brianforde7967]

Ali won convincingly

[@JesseFernandez-zj5ki]

When ali is in danger of being knocked out he grabs and catches thats a foul he should have been disquslified, but the bought up ref chooses to ignore it,shameful for boxing indeed,jones would have won had ali not adapted these dirty tactics,surely not the greatest,that was marciano who unlike ali never lost a fight and always fought a clean fight.

[@schonem11]

Bullshit 😂😂

[@saddingtonmangena1241]

But it's very common boxing tactic. Lots of professional boxers employ it. I don't see anything wrong with clinching

[@dbrownporecords]

You left out the Mob ties Rocky had that helped him go undefeated tell the whole story and how the boxers who gave him a good fight how they mysterious died you a Ali hater, Ali the GREATEST of all Times Period

[@donaldsimms2625]

LOL you must be a 100 years old living in a bygone world Rocky is seen as greatest fighter by dinosaurs in the. Present world Sugar Ray Robinson is the greatest fighter Muhammad Ali was the greatest heavy weight fighter Muhammad Ali was loved and respected all over the WORLD not just by dinosaurs like you

[@user-tm5uw3vh1h]

Greatest robbery of 1963

[@RollingStoneZzzzz]

Ali won...no doubt. Remember this was earlier in his career. The judges were not bious. Unless $$$$ a little grease was applied. I doubt it though. Das 😎 all.

[@Dumpft666]

🤡

[@mmnsurahman5646]

Ali is overated

[@dennishover4803]

HaHa you are funny!

[@sysvalley]

I hope you are not confusing boxing with fighting. Big difference.

[@Cliff589]

true he was

[@dennishover4803]

@@Cliff589 Yea sure pal!

[@Cliff589]

@@dennishover4803 he was