A GENUINE EXHIBITION
@BigDaddyBunce
Voice of boxing
ONE was at war with his own government, a maverick, a quality and divisive heavyweight fighter. The other one was Muhammad Ali.
Igor Vysotsky was the man in the loud Soviet red vest in the third of three two-round exhibition fights – they were called “comrade training fights” – to take place in front of 4,000 people at the Central Army Sports Club in Moscow in June 1978.
Ali was on a ten-day peace mission to the Soviet Union. He met Leonid Brezhnev in the Kremlin, flew to Tashkent, kissed the heads of babies, ran in Red Square at 6am and
