If prime Rocky fights in 1962 and later, does he ever become heavyweight champ?
Smokin' Joe Frazier.....as close to a pure warrior as I've ever saw. Unlike many swarmers, he fought clean. Mercante called him the cleanest...
Marciano never looked invincible.
Want to know when Ali's real peak was? It was in the FOTC. Pre-exile Ali does not go the distance with Frazier that night. And Ali admitted as...
You are absolutely correct in all of the above. Ali stayed on the ropes in '71 because he had no other choice, as you point out. He had to...
Lot of truth here, but I don't really think peak Norton always beats Ali. It is funny how the Ali fanboys always point to the Williams fight and...
Good post. Agree.
Main St gym, Los Angeles, CA, back in the day.
And this all squares with Ali firmly stating that his FOTC version was stronger and punched harder than then his '60s version. And it squares...
Ali stops FOTC Frazier, right? Thanks for the laugh. It must be computer day at the institution, lol.
Not talking about Norton, bud. Don't cloud the issue. We're talking about a relentless warrior in Frazier, far unlike anything else Ali had seen...
Ali was already champion and name changed at the time of the Chuvalo-Patterson fight.
FOTC Frazier beats November, 1966 Ali. Does that address the topic? lol. As Ali stated in the clip, Frazier "whips me quicker" in referring to...
Yeah bud, he said it and it was an immediate honest answer, which is the right kind of way to do things! The HONEST answer with no ulterior...
Yes, it is my truth and more importantly, it was also Ali's truth.