The Official Nonsense Thread

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Ardal O'Hanlon, great! Big old mad ghostie thing, so it is!

(Read the above in a Father Dougal voice for the right effect!)

I see they're now trying to claim "new" evidence about the famous Muhammed Ali vs Sonny Liston fight being fixed by the Mafia. It was no secret that Liston was in the hands of the Mob. What was a secret however was that he was a complete wreck at least eight years older than billed (he was easily in his forties at the time of the fight) & had been heavily shot with cortisone before fights for years to allow him to still take part. Ali meanwhile was the current Olympic gold medallist in heavyweight boxing.

Four years after the farce of the two Ali bouts, Liston was dead, the autopsy noting advanced lung disease & hardening of the heart muscles.