After watching 10+ times lol - Most of the fight is in a 3 beat. It for sure is after Ali lands the second big rear hand. - Ali leading tempo, begins to go step left repeatedly. With something happening from either Ali or Liston in the third step. I’d have to watch some more but I get the feeling both have a sense of the rhythm, but Ali having the better sense. As we see with the second big right hand landed by Ali, where he takes advantage of the third beat while Liston isn’t ready. - You can pick up on Sonny’s pattern in threes too. Jab-jab body- cross body was repeated a couple times. - Before the knock out the three was Ali feints his head right, Liston feints his left, then what it looks like is Ali feints left setting up Liston to try and track his head with a jab. Setting up the pull counter. This step forward jab was being baited and repeated through the round. - Amazing that the knockout came from the very first exchange/technique of the round. - It was interesting to see Liston needing to chase, for someone to engage with him to get his offense off.

I didn’t have enough filmstudy to answer the recent question on who is better, Ali or Mayweather. Especially excited to see your take on it. Inoue and classic fights are also cool to get into. Does inoue abide by the knock knock principle?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhqKSBFL9Pc Video is showing as unavailable for me, hopefully the link is good if you run into the same issue