Who beats Ali? No hedging your bets, who do YOU pick to straight up beat him?

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  1. COULDHAVEBEEN

    COULDHAVEBEEN Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Nobody!

    The very best might take a single match in a series of three from him - maybe?
     
  2. MPG

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    2 and 3.

    Lewis is 1 obviously.
     
  3. flamengo

    flamengo Coool as a Cucumber. Full Member

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    Please..... tell me you are joking. All time what???
     
  4. groove

    groove Well-Known Member Full Member

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    see how many views this thread has. it's not for jokers like rakman and mccall (BTW conteh is taking the **** flamengo). it's for Ali :good
     
  5. flamengo

    flamengo Coool as a Cucumber. Full Member

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    He certainly sounds like it.
     
  6. groove

    groove Well-Known Member Full Member

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    peak ali's jab in action

    ali v patterson 1965- round 2 - no heavies move this fast nowadays (Ali makes Patterson look slow)
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    check out the whole of round 5 v folley - just got a bit of the round here

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  7. flamengo

    flamengo Coool as a Cucumber. Full Member

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    Yep. He is the man. Clay was something else. Boxed like a middleweight, built like a welterweight, legs of a lightweight, feet like Astaire and the timing of a Rolex watch. Makes Lewis seem incompetant from where I stand.

    The big, slow moving, cumbersome, glass jawed, overrated, flat footed pom wouldnt have a shot at Clay..... Ever.
     
  8. JohnThomas1

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    Poorest paragraph of the ESB year contender.
     
  9. My dinner with Conteh

    My dinner with Conteh Tending Bepi Ros' grave again Full Member

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    He's gonna have some awards before the week's out. There'll be no room on his mantlepiece. :yep
     
  10. JohnThomas1

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    Hard to disagree wise one

    :lol:
     
  11. Robbi

    Robbi Marvelous Full Member

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    Have you seen Lewis fight? I'm not sure you have based on your views above. Slow moving? huh. Get outta here. And apart from two knockout losses his chin was solid, sometimes granite. Have you seen the Mercer fight? Lewis' chin let him down on two ocassions, but outwith those KO's his chin was rather solid.
     
  12. My dinner with Conteh

    My dinner with Conteh Tending Bepi Ros' grave again Full Member

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    That's the problem, it's getting too silly. Lewis was quick, certainly a fighter "built like a Welterwight" isn't someone I'd fancy bettng my money on. Fortunately, for Ali he was a bit bigger than that. As everyone knows, Lewis had a good jab, very strong, great power, he's a nightmare task for any heavyweight 'ever' on his day. This is no big indecisive lummox like Terrell. He has a decent shout of winning.
     
  13. JohnThomas1

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    Don't forget the legs of a lightweight tho

    :lol:
     
  14. My dinner with Conteh

    My dinner with Conteh Tending Bepi Ros' grave again Full Member

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    :D


    I can just picture a half Hilmer Kenty/Johnny Bumphus hybrid smashing Lewis into the ground.
     
  15. JohnThomas1

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    Damn, i was more picturing Fred Astaire shoes, Jimmy Paul's legs and Brelands upper body.

    Watch out Lummox, you big weak sloth pom you

    :lol:

    I'm still not sure what the "Pom" part of his pearl had to do with anything but i do have my suspicians from previous other thread comments

    The real funny thing is the guy calling Lewis glass jawed told us Tony Mundine senior's legendary glass jaw was a fallacy painted by wankers of the press. Here was his review of some ko's, tho he seemed to forget quite a few others ;)

    Not much love for Lennox really, comparatively speaking

    :lol: