Muhammad Ali vs Wilt Chamberlain

There's one guy on another forum that keeps insisting Wilt could beat him. Height counts for nothing if you don't know how to use it, Ali would probably have KOed him in a round, or when he liked.

 

I assumed it was not a serious inquiry.

 

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Not even a whisper of a prayer of Wilt winning ... the tale of the tape is impressive, but the tale of the record is more impressive. Ali had been boxing since he was 12. I know the stuff about Cus D'Amato training Chamberlain; I still don't think it would compensate for sheer experience. Basketball is certainly a physical game, but nobody's trying to deliberately, accurately, and repeatedly punch you in the face for ten rounds. Boxing's unique, and vilified and treasured for that uniqueness.

 

As Ali said, "Timberrrrrrrrrr"

 

Wilt also applied the pIpe to 10,000 women over his prime years.

 

Wilt would have had as much chance of besting Ali in boxing as Ali would have of beating Wilt at basketball.

 

I think people are overstating the case for Ali a little, but I would also pick Ali. That said, this isn't the Tour de France, nor the 100 meter dash, nor any professional team sport, nor professional tennis; this is a combat sport, you vs. me, and as we know anything can happen.

Ali's experience would be a decisive factor no doubt. That along with his fighting spirit and being comfortable with being hit. Cool. There's obviously a lot of questions about what Wilt could actually due with time in the gym. ****, it might be funny seeing how much power he could generate and still look awkward as hell doing it.

Again though, as we've seen in the UFC...guys can be vastly less experienced and come from another sport, and still even win belts. We've also seen huge upsets in both boxing and other sports that were mindblowing at the time. People are acting like it's the former examples of what it would be like switching sports, instead of it switching to a combat sport. If somebody is up there with the strongest to ever play the sport, or likely most any sport, who would need an extended training camp with top coaches, is as athletically gifted as Wilt was, with the dimensions he was blessed with... might land a Sunday special of sorts. Even as unlikely as that may be, this isn't a basketball player switching to professional tennis and playing Roland-Garros. That said, I'd obviously still put my money on Ali

 

Wilt Chamberlain was an awesome physical specimen. Out of all the sports in the world boxing is probably the only one Ali would be favored. Boxing is just a different, specific set of muscles and skills developed at a young age.

 

Doesn't Valuev have similar stats? How would he do against Ali and Valuev is a lot more experienced than Wilt Chamberlain was.

 

Yep.

 

There's definitely something to be said about starting young - with boxing (and I've heard the same thing said about collegiate/Olympic wrestling), there are so many intangibles that go beyond the apparent stuff of physical strength, agility, reflexes, etc. It's the patterns that (hopefully) are established when the motherboard of the nervous system is still new and pliable. History certainly has boxers who started relatively late and did fine, but I think they're more the exception than the rule.

 

No...it was like more than 20,000. Here are the facts:

[url]https://thebiglead.com/2012/08/23/wilt-chamberlain-had-a-lot-of-sex-according-to-math/[/url]

 

Thanks for the article. I was just trying to apply North Dallas disco era statistics to Wilt's story as
I remembered it.