Ali the most physically strongest in boxing history

Well, I'm one of the biggest Ali fans on this board and have watched this fight countless of times and am just telling you what I see.

But I think you might have a point with that last sentence. Almost four years out of the game didn't help Ali's strength much more than it did his speed. And almost all of the weight he put on in the 70's was fat.

 

Box fan you are young and very inexperienced. Don't try telling people who were there and lived through those times what is right and wrong.

 

Ignore him Perry, he seems like he's 13 or something.

 

We also have it on good authority that Mr. Ali indeed threw a football over them mountains over there.

 

No Red, that's his IQ.

 

The strongest heavyweight of all time, is probably somebody who never held the title.

 

Very true.

 

Yeah, that too.

 

Like maybe Jose Manuel Urtain?

 

Can't imagine any fighter as physically strong as Foreman. Not only strong but he aggressively used his strength. The guy was a bruiser.

 

Now Foreman manhandled his opponents.

 

Ali was very, very strong. Clearly there are stronger heavyweights but Ali was both dirty (yanking guys around with his hand behind their heads) and great at controlling the terms of the clinch. That's a matter of skill more than strength- there's a great story about Joe Louis shoving Primo Carnera around and we can all agree that Louis was not stronger than a 2 meter tall 125 kg professional strongman. But he controlled the terms of the clinch.

 

Ok...I was just going on what the man (Ali) said himself. But I guess you know better than Ali, who stated he was a stronger fighter after the exile. Yes, you know better than the fighter...LMAO. Ali, knew leverage in the ring, and how to control a fighter inside. That doesn't always equate to greater strength, as it does to greater skill. Those fighters (Norton, Lyle) more so, had to physically impose themselves on Ali to a great degree, to makeup for lesser skills in the ring. Yes, you know more than Ali though.

 

Obviously trying to reasonably explain things to you doesn't work. YDKSAB, so go and follow table tennis, it would suit you better.

While you are at it, get someone who isn't a teenager to show you the Norton fight in which Ali manhandled Ken so easily he came away with a broken jaw.:roll::roll: