Best boxing photo I have ever seen....

Is there an sjcomfactcheck.org?

 

The only reason that photo is held in such regard is because of what it stands for.

It's a simple image.

But if it was the same image of, say, Larry Holmes standing over Trevor Berbick, you would have never seen it again after it ran in the paper.

 

I saw a real nice slide into second base, last week.

 

It wasn't simple at all, Simon. Watch the actual footage.

Ali is standing over him, screaming, but he shakes his fist for less than half a second. It was anything but a reaction shot. There was some luck, certainly, but with those old slow action cameras it was a remarkable shot. The image you posted was almost certainly a digital file that was one of a series of about 40 taken in one second by one of the fastest cameras in the world.

 

I have to agree with Simon on this one. There are so many great boxing shots like this one...



but to have the framing and angle of that picture is special.

 

I've seen the video many times.

Once the guy is down, every photog is shooting. Someone was going to get it.

Aftermath is easy.

Bobby Orr?

Now, you're talking turkey.

 

I believe that was the punch that flattened Walcott and gave Marciano the title. A Marciano bio I have has a picture of the right hand he used to knock out Joe Louis, the last punch Louis took in his career. Cool pic too.

 

I love the shot. I wish we had more threads like this.

 

Superb photo.

I was hyperbolic at the thread's start. The top photo is short-list, not necessarily at the very top.

 

I love good photography.

Simon, your first shot is once in a lifetime. The Walcott photo has been done over and over.

Google pic that fight, and you can see how many great shots were taken.

I will also say the age of digital cameras has increased the quality of art in newspapers 100 fold. Just for the fact that you are never worried about reloading or running out of film.

 

There was another shot from the Klitchko (sp) fight over the weekend that made it into the San Antonio Express News middle pages of the Sports section. He's creaming the poor guy in that one, too.
The Express teased with the shot which started this post and I, too, thought it was brilliant camera work.

 

I have a question.

Is the above photo cropped from a much larger photo?