How accurate ws Muhamad Ali?

In his Cassius Clay days he did this a lot, and I think he was quite accurate. In the early days he was getting it right.

I cant remember all of them.
But Archie Moore will fall in four. He did.
Henry Cooper went out in five rounds, just as Clay had said he would.

 

He predicted some four/five before Liston which he got right. He also had Dunn right in 1976. He gave his gloves to a fan after a fight and the fan saw that he had written the round inside them.

 

He predicted he would stop Holmes in 8 which never happened
And he predicted he would stop Norton in the third fight

 

That poem was for Liston. Ali said in a dressing room interview before tfotc that "Frazier falls in six"

 

the crowd did not dream, when they put down their money
That they would see a total eclipse of the sonny.

He just substituted liston for frazier

 

He did the same when he fought Berbick, changed the name.

 

I know he was wrong about the following fights:

Jones
Liston (could very well have made come it true had Liston not quit, though)
Bonavena (had Bonavena hurt in the predicted round, but got hurt himself)
Frazier
Lyle (had Lyle against the ropes a large part of the predicted round, but not seriously hurt)

 

i think cassius clay had predicted 11 fights correct upto archie moore. clay had to go before the boxing commission cuz they thought he was fixing all his fights - they could hardly believe he could correctly predict them all like he had been doing in all his early fights. you can see footage of this in ali documentaries.

 

I know that Sonny Liston thwarted him by quiting before the predicted round in their first fight.

 

He predicted he'd get Mac Foster out in five, and really went after Mac from the outset to make his prediction stick. At the end of that round, he waved his arms and shook his head in disgust. Starting with round six, he reverted to his more characteristic stick and move.

 

He was almost correct for the first Liston fight. Between Liston and Richard Dunn,12 years later,he did n't predict the round that much. He said round 8 for Ron Lyle,but had to wait three more rounds.

 

after two years as a pro Ali fought 15 times 13KO's and he correctly called the demise of his opponents on 12 occasions.