ESPN sells Ali. PERIOD.
WHO came up with that for
ESPN Classic?
Alcoholic Bert Sugar?
Or one of the many other boxing "experts" who never had a fight with their own sister.
Louis' trainer Jack Blackburn never let Louis weight 200.
While Blackburn was alive Louis weighed 199 or less for every title defense.
Trusting ESPN Classic would be equal to trusting the Washington Post or NY TIMES.
ESPN got all the rare boxing films collected for decades by Jimmy Jacobs and Bill Cayton (managers of Mike Tyson).
Cayton gave them to ESPN, assuming they would show the very rare films of the great fighters from the early 1900's to the public.
Instead they show nothing but more recent crap.
Cayton's choice of ESPN was a disaster.