7 Great Sports Moments That Might Have Been Fixed The fight was a rematch and the poor bastard ali's standing over was sonny liston.Their first fight had ended mysteriously when liston refused to come out of his corner.In the months leading up to the rematch, they had a difficult time securing a venue, partially due to rumors of mob involvement, which is how they ended up in maine.Making things all the more shady, nobody saw the punch that knocked liston out.While the resulting photograph makes ali look like he's celebrating in triumph, those who were ringside claim ali was actually yelling at liston to get up, presumably so he could at least wait for a more plausible punch before taking a dive. In the seedy world of professional boxing, liston was perhaps the dirtiest and most mysterious guy in the ring.No one knew, including liston, when or where he was born.Liston had done time and apparently had underworld connections, including having his contract owned by notorious and prominent mafiosos. Because of that, there were rumors that liston bet against himself because he owed money to the mob and really didn't feel like getting fitted with a pair of http://www.adtranet.com/christian-louboutin-flats.html cliche cement shoes. It wasn't a great moment if you were a bulls fans, but jordan's first retirement was one of http://www.adtranet.com/ the biggest and most inexplicable stories of the '90s.He was in his prime and his bulls were unbeatable.They'd just won their third straight title and showed no signs of slowing down.Jordan is by all accounts one of the most psychotically competitive human beings on the planet and he was in place to challenge the record of eight straight titles.It just made no sense that jordan would hang up his overpriced sneakers in october of 1993. Well, unless you believe the theory that it wasn't exactly a standard retirement.Some folks claim it was an under the table suspension imposed by david stern after word leaked that mj was losing money by the fistful thanks to a crippling gambling problem. Despite his squeaky clean corporate image, michael jordan had a few vices.Namely:Gambling, gambling, and more gambling(Though since retirement he has added 'underwear commercials that make us uncomfortable' to that list).Mj was also no stranger to casinos, even during the nba playoffs. Far more disturbing were the unsubstantiated rumors that his father, who was killed in a shooting, had been murdered in connection to his son's gambling debts. Wait, you mean this wasn't his idea? Only days after jordan's retirement, the nba wrapped up its investigation into mj's gambling allegations, declaring that jordan hadn't done anything wrong.Except for, you know, betting a shitload of money on sports. When the question was posed as to whether jordan would ever consider un retiring, mj said yes,"If david stern lets me. "The conspiracy theorists pounced on this peculiar statement, noting that if it were a legit retirement, stern would be batshit crazy not to let jordan back in the league. In 1951, baseball's new york giants found themselves trailing the brooklyn dodgers by 13.5 games in the standings with less than two months to go.Typically teams faced with such an insurmountable deficit http://www.adtranet.com/christian-louboutin-boots.html call it a season and start stocking away grain alcohol for those long winter months. But with the possible exception of philadelphians, no one likes losing.So, the giants decided to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, try extra hard and play great, fundamental baseball.When that failed they decided to just cheat their way back into contention. How did they do it?Well, believe it or not, bill belichick didn't invent signal stealing. Except, when the giants cheated, http://www.adtranet.com/christian-louboutin-sandalen.html they won. Allegedly during their home games, the giants would send a coach out to center field armed with a telescope and electronic buzzer with which to steal and relay the other team's signs to the hitter.Since it happened in the black and white era, we're forced to assume this led to three stooges style slapstick shenanigans;A buzzer malfunction leading to some good old fashioned genital shocking, if we had to guess. In february 2001, nascar fans lost their most legendary driver at their most legendary event when dale earnhardt was tragically killed during the last lap of the daytona 500.In june of that same year, nascar returned to daytona and what transpired resembled a hollywood ending, only without slow motion and melodramatic music. Earnhardt's son dale jr.Found himself in seventh place with only six laps to go, but somehow, miraculously, managed to come from behind for the storybook victory at the racetrack that claimed his father's life. Many fans and rival drivers have been vocal about junior's win being just a bit too perfect, and hinted that nascar may have been pulling some strings in order to give junior the emotional win and, presumably, their sport a ratings boost.Either that or the drivers who had been ahead of junior suddenly developed the driving habits of elderly women. From may of 2000 until his win at daytona in june of 2001, junior had won exactly zero times, a span of 36 races.Keep in mind that this is a sport where your success is largely determined by how fast your car goes.Unless you're driving the little engine that could, inspiration can only take you so far. But driving the car that was on a 36 race losing streak, he somehow passed six cars in two laps, which is a feat only repeated by ricky bobby as far as we know.Some have suggested that the drivers ahead of junior eased back to let him win, while others have speculated that nascar gave junior preferential treatment in his car's inspection,. Even racing legends like bill elliot, richard petty, and richard petty's mustache believe that something is fishy with nascar.Elliot in particular has been vocal, suggesting that

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