MUHAMMAD ALI vs. ERNIE TERRELL | WHAT'S MY NAME |
Channel: BOXING LEGENDS
Date: 2020-11-09

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This is the story of the fight between Muhammad Ali and Ernie Terrell, the story of a name that will be remembered as the greatest in the history of boxing.
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Muhammad Ali vs. Ernie Terrell was a professional boxing match contested on February 6, 1967, for the WBA & WBC Heavyweight Championship. The fight went 15 rounds, with Ali winning through a unanimous decision.


During a pre-fight interview in ABC studios, a physical altercation ensued between the two.Terrell offhandedly called Ali by his birth name of Cassius Clay multiple times in a statement not directed at him. Ali took immediate offense and interrupted Terrell, asking why he called him that; Terrell noted that Ali had introduced himself by that name when they first met. Ali quickly escalated the situation, saying "my name is Muhammad Ali" and threatening to "make announce it in the center of that ring if don't do it now." He then called him "an old Uncle Tom, another Floyd Patterson", and further threatened "I'm gonna punish you." Terrell took offense in turn, saying "you ain't got no business callin' me an Uncle Tom. Don't call me no Uncle Tom, man." Ali yelled back "That's what you are, an Uncle Tom!", to which Terrell responded "Why you gonna call me an Uncle Tom, I ain't do nothin' to you." Ali simply yelled "Uncle Tom!" repeatedly and slapped Terrell, resulting in a shoving match between the two.


The eighth round went solidly to Ali, battering the wobbly and half-blinded Terrell, though Terrell still landed jabs and would jolt Ali with a hook. This state went on for the rest of the fight; in the 13th round, commentator and boxer George Chuvalo commented that Terrell had been unexpectedly hanging on and that Ali looked tired, predicting the fight would end with a decision rather than a knockout, which turned out to be a correct assessment. In the eighth round, Ali taunted Terrell by asking "What's my name?" and calling him "Tom", but ceased to speak to him after that point, not even saying a word to him when the match ended and both boxers went back to their respective corners.Two of the Judges scored the bout 148–137 and the other had it 148–133 all in favor of Ali.


This performance was seen as vicious and made Ali unpopular with some boxing fans, due to accusations that Ali was intentionally dragging out the bout to further hurt Terrell when he could have instead gone for a knockout.Ali himself denied this, and stated he simply was not capable of knocking Terrell out despite throwing hundreds of shots at his head. He said: "I don't believe I could have. I had a couple of opportunities to knock him out, but he was so determined. I didn't realize he could take as much punishment as he did. After the eighth round I laid it on him but I found myself tiring. I had 15 rounds to go and started pacing myself." After the match, he continued to insult Terrell, saying "Ernie Terrell has no class whatsoever... It's a joke calling him a champion." Nat Fleischer in the Ring Magazine was critical of Ali's inability to gain a stoppage, unfavorably comparing him to Rocky Marciano and Joe Louis, who he insisted would have had no problem knocking Terrell out.


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