James Tillis/Muhammad Ali - Similarities?

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and that right uppercut...like at around 3.30 ish
very ali-like

 

similarities perhaps, but not when it really matters as you all know.

 

Tillis did have the superior right uppercut of them two after all.

 

Eh. Neither really threw that punch very often, but thats still maybe the only thing you could say Tillis does better.

 

Yes, and that uppercut was the main reason he managed to keep Tyson at bay in their fight.

And people saying Ali's superior in every way, not true at all.

 

They were both black, Tillis couldn't carry his jockstrap.

 

Tillis was a C class journeyman.

 

So tell me what is so special about quick tillis then?

Ali also had a nice left uppercut that he would catch tyson with

 

People seem to forget that Tyson hadn't quite reached his peak yet and also more importantly, Tillis was Tysons first step up, on the other hand, look who Tillis had fought up until then. Hed fought some of the best names around.

It was a case of an experienced fighter vs a green fighter

 

Tyson was at his best yet went life and death with the C level journeyman. Tillis had just lost 3 on the bounce yet gave Tinkerbell all he could handle, imagine what Ali would have done to him.

 

Tillis had the ability to be a great fighter, but lacked the discipline and conditioning. He was to Ali, what Cliff Couser was to Tyson though.

 

tillis was one of a hundred ali copy cats around in the 80s.

 

Yes, no disrespect to Tyson, no disrespect to Ali, and no disrespect to Tillis either, damn good fighter if you ask me.