I don't believe Ali was blinded in that fight. I think it was a charade on his part.
Ali was very good and maybe even great- but not the greatest of all time. He was a master of the illegal hold and hit and the head pull-down. He...
Marciano was a dirty fighter. He was known by his peers as a dirty fighter. I read where he was asked about this once by a sportswriter. He...
Of the ones I'm familiar with I would say the dirtiest were Ali, Marciano and Holyfield. Ali's holding and hitting and neck yanking are...
It would have been about the same thing as Clay beating Liston. We would have known it was a fix.
The powers that be wanted Liston out. He was seen as bad for boxing, because of his criminal record. Clay was a money maker. He was much a...
Dempsey broke Willard's ribs.
Chlordane. That's what they were saying caused it at one time.
Ali doesn't have dementia because he's not demented. His mind is as sharp as ever, according to the people around him.
Foreman has repeated many times that Ali refused to give him a rematch unless Foreman used Dick Saddler as a trainer. He also told Foreman that he...
Ali was a master of holding and neck pulling and getting away with it. Had he also mastered Holyfield's headbutting he would have been awesome.
Patterson was a shaky champion. I'm amazed he's as well thought of as he seems to be. I was around and remember him.
The most famous tell was Joe Louis dropping his left hand after jabbing with it. That's what Schmeling saw and how he knocked Louis out. Louis...
You must have imagined it. Ali, himself said he had just learned the AP just before knocking Liston out with it. That was 1965. What you might...
Ali didn't have the Anchor Punch until just before his second bout with Liston. It was taught to him by Stepin Fetchit, who had learned it from...
