Yep that one must have felt pretty good, winning the title 3 times. The old lion gets his last great victory.
George Foreman was his BEST win…. But I think he really ENJOYED beating the shlt out of Ernie Terrell
Listen, if I want energy without oxygen, I need to ferment. If I have fermentation, that is a fermentative process. But I am not going to do that because oxygenation is the gr8essed nation beside America and imagination. There are organisms from billions of years ago that had essentially no oxygen-NO OXYGEN and that needs to be respected.
I was reading this article about the Terrell fight in Sports Illustrated. Besides refusing to call him by his name it was amazing how much trash Terrell talked about Ali. Terrell bragged about how he pushed Ali around in an exhibition match, how his opponents were overrated, and how easy he would be to beat. Maybe he was trying to convince himself.
Ali himself said Liston. Nobody disputes that Foreman was his most important win, as it completely revived boxing.
Yeah, he was a huge underdog against Liston and faced a level of opposition he hadn't faced before. As he put it himself "It's one thing to believe but don't truly know you can go to the moon and another do actually prove you can do it". Foreman was his second moon landing, and the second rarely trumps the first.
His greatest victories are probably , Liston #1 and Foreman. Both those fights, he was a huge underdog, and most "experts" actually feared for his safety. His sweetest victory, the one he probably enjoyed the most is more than likely the torture of The "Octopus" Earnie Terrell. Terrell was one of the few fighters to actually get under Ali's skin, and really seemed to agitate him. Ali carried him for 15 rds just to beat him up. Repeatedly asking Terrell (What's my name?) because Terrell insisted in calling him Clay his birth name, not his adopted name of Ali.
