Please justify this in light of my analysis. Anybody who cares about Ali as a human being, rather than a money making attraction, would not want...
Hold on a minute!! Are you seriously saying that Wlad and Lennox are the only 2 fighters from the entire history of the heavyweight division that...
I agree that diehard Ali fans will find 'Ghosts of Manilla' hard to swallow. I am a big Ali fan myself, and also a fan of Thomas Hauser's Ali...
Ali's fights after Manilla, and why they add practically zero to Ali's legacy: Jean-Pierre Coopman: Ali KOs a nice man, but a terrible boxer in...
I have given this matter a great deal of thought over the years, and read widely on the subject. For the sake of his health, Ali should have...
Firstly, you want the talent, or at least some good building blocks, or you aint going nowhere. Then as a good fighter, you can do very well,...
I remember reading a quote about Jack Sharkey that claimed he was "the best fighter in the world...from the neck down"
I remember reading that Ali's daughter was desperate for her father to lose against Berbick. She knew that if he won, he would take it as...
Ali was passed as fit to fight Holmes, only after a two-day renal and neurological examination by the Mayo clinic. This was despite noticably...
I agree. I have been re-reading on the final act of Ali's career...and it is always heartbreaking to see a great champion (the greatest in this...
I have dug out my copy of the excellent Hauser biography of Ali, I will give you a couple of direct quotes from the book: 'In round two, Shavers...
I don't think so. The Hauser book (The Life and Times of Muhammed Ali) is a meticulously researched and verified work of biography. Hauser had...
Great information! Thanks, Sam. I was torn between choosing Foreman or Shavers...but now I have read multiple boxers who fought both men say that...
This is an interesting post...thanks, Duo. Have you got a source for where Ali says Shavers hit harder than Foreman? I wonder if it was because...
In his book, Kings of the Ring, Gavin Evans gives a mean assessment of Dempsey, both inside and outside the ring. He claims that Dempsey's...
