"had Cooper not suffered the bad cut over his eye...”
oh, how’d he get cut?
he got hit
oh, who hit him?
Ali hit him
oh, so if Ali had not him he could have won the fight?
right
There is that, but far more important and very clearly and easily seen is the FACT Angelo Dundee used smelling salts to wake Clay up and tore his glove in an attempt to stall the fight. The stall did not work but the ammonia did. My father was a gas-passer and I remember him being pissed about it.