Clay vs Frazier FOTC

[Colonel Sanders]

Originally Posted by Longhhorn71

Wonder how Clay felt post fight after Frazier beat the sh!t out of him?

Remember, Frazier cancelled the requirement that Clay had to crawl across the ring and tell him that Frazier was the Greatest after Clay lost.

I don't think he ''cancelled'' that

I remember he asked Ali to be truthful to his word and crawl up to him and call him the greatest, I think he was in his dressing room after the fight

obviously he didn't give a fuck and was just playing as he had just won very impressively anyway

[mcvey]

Originally Posted by The Spider

Clay changed his name to Muhammad Ali years before the Frazier fight.

You didn't catch onto that after Ali convinced Ernie Terrell of the fact?

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Ali called a press conference to announce he had converted to Islam and to declare his new name on June 30th 1967 .

[The Spider]

Originally Posted by mcvey

Ali called a press conference to announce he had converted to Islam and to declare his new name on June 30th 1967 .

...and years before the Frazier FOTC

Not sure the motive of people referring to Ali as Clay circa 1971 and onward?

[BillB]

Originally Posted by mcvey

Ali called a press conference to announce he had converted to Islam and to declare his new name on June 30th 1967 .

February 26, 1964.


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[mcvey]

Originally Posted by BillB

February 26, 1964.


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I couldn't refind that link , had it this afternoon.
Its not of real consequence what is , is the fact that he publicly renounced his former "slave name," and requested he be addressed as Ali henceforth. Most people don't have a problem with that.

[mcvey]

Originally Posted by Colonel Sanders

I don't think he ''cancelled'' that

I remember he asked Ali to be truthful to his word and crawl up to him and call him the greatest, I think he was in his dressing room after the fight

obviously he didn't give a fuck and was just playing as he had just won very impressively anyway

Frazier won the fight ,and ruined himself in the process, he never scaled those heights again, imo.

[Theron]

Originally Posted by blagovech

well ali kept claiming that he won the fight and that he was robbed he was pretty pissed at the outcome

He admitted well after the first fight that he lost the first one but did not want to admit it.