I don’t remember lyle knocking ali down in their fight once, let alone twice. are we thinking of the same fight? I do not believe ali was ever knocked down twice in any of his fights and I think it happened only 4 or 5 times total in his career.
“I do not believe ali was ever knocked down twice in any of his fights”
yes he was, by Joe Frazier, Madison Square Garden, 1971.
One of the announcers claims he slipped, but he slipped right after Joe punched him hard, and I have a hard time believing in such coincidences.