Thomas Hoepker “In 1966 I met Muhammad Ali for the third time. He was training in the historic gym of Johnny Coulon in Chicago. His nickname was ‘The Chicago Spyder’. He had been the bantam-weight champion of the
(...) world from 1910 to 1914. Coulon had made a lot of money by visiting carnivals around the US. There he made bets that nobody would be able to lift him up - and indeed not even the strongest man could. His trick was to put one finger on a specific point on the neck of his challenger and this pressure paralysed the baffled opponent. Muhammad Ali was no exception.”
--Thomas Hoepker © Thomas Hoepker | Magnum Photos
