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Split glove ‘worn by Muhammad Ali in Henry Cooper fight’ to be sold at auction

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A gloved worker at the auction house holds the signed, torn boxing glove — The glove is being held in a secret location and will be auctioned on 18 June, exactly 61 years after the fight at Wembley Stadium. Photograph: Daniel Dayment/SWNS

An auctioneer from Somerset is selling what he claims is one of the most famous pieces of sporting memorabilia – the split boxing glove from Muhammad Ali’s 1963 fight with Henry Cooper.

The left glove has gone down in boxing history because Ali’s trainer, Angelo Dundee, is said to have widened a rip in it to buy some time for his man, then fighting under the name Cassius Clay, after he had been floored by Cooper.

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