Muhammad Ali’s Best Combos

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  1. Pugguy

    Pugguy Ingo, The Thinking Man’s GOAT Full Member

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    This is a nicely packaged montage of some of the best/better examples of Ali’s combo punching.

    Probably could have had more from the Terrell fight and also from the first Liston and Chuvalo fights but still a good compressed watch all the same whenever you have 8 or so mins to spare.

    Nothing else to add but to say, enjoy!

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    Ioakeim Tzortzakis Well-Known Member Full Member

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    The absence of the Brian London finisher is probably the biggest offence of the video.
     
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    Pugguy Ingo, The Thinking Man’s GOAT Full Member

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    Yep, like a thrashing machine, Ali squeezed out quite a few punches in just a sec or two to see Brian off.
     
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    dmt Hardest hitting hw ever Full Member

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    love this. The speed and power of Ali's combinations is exceedingly rare. No one like him today.
     
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    did the same thing to Cleveland Williams. Both times, he worked his man over to the corner, and just let loose with like a 20+ hit combo in the span of maybe a second.

    I actually wonder why he didn’t do that more when he was capable of it. Seemed a total finisher to anyone he caught.
     
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    Pugguy Ingo, The Thinking Man’s GOAT Full Member

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    That’s why I like the Terrell fight in so far as Ali proving he could move and throw the same type of effective and picturesque combos he threw against Williams not just for about 3 rounds but for the whole 15 rounds if necessary.

    Ali almost had Ernie out in round 7? but Terrell of course clammed right up only looking to survive til the end.

    Ernies’s maintained high guard with arms firmly wrapped around his head made him a sitting duck for body shots but of course we know that wasn’t really Ali’s thing.
     
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    The Terrell fight was Ali at his best. At the the 5:30 mark of this video and you'll see how Ali was just as fresh in 15th round as he was in the first round against Terrell

    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ali+terrell+round+15
     
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    Pugguy Ingo, The Thinking Man’s GOAT Full Member

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    Here’s an addendum video package though this is about 28 mins long - fills the void for a number of 60s fights that weren’t shown in the first video that I linked.

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