in a way you are right. ali admitted that he suffered parkinsonism after the holmes fiasco. in fact 4 years after, in september of 1984. it was an...
washington post, sept. 20th 1984: "Ali Diagnosis 'Parkinsonism' Hospitalized former world heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali was diagnosed...
all hindsight, mark. the parkinsons syndrome was diagnosed not earlier than 1984. in hindsight everybody of us can see the way he was going....
exactly this. i remember reading a newspaper article where his then sparring partner tim witherspoon described ali bewildered as some kind of...
no archie moore in the top 50 ?? jimmy bivins at 9 ??? others have mentioned many other failures. this list must be a joke.
you are mistaken, richard, that cobb "holds wins over ken norton and ernie shavers in 1980, both knockouts". norton won this one via split...
two heavyweights from the "golden heavyweight era", that have two things in common: 1.) a granite chin, both were (almost) impossible to knock...
very insightful, thank you. one question: who did the live commentating during those closed circuit events? did it come from the event itself (on...
i´m sure you meant "3-4 years earlier", instead of "ago" (which would mean lewis vs. tyson anno 2016 or ´17).
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absolutely. the famed "rope-a-dope" was succesfull short-termed, but turned out disastrous in the long run (or even intermediate-term). i´d like...
painkillers are - by today´s definition - one of many different performance-enhancing drugs (ped) in sports. ali´s doctor, ferdie pacheco,...
it would have been a wise decision to make this a draw by the referees. this wouldn´t have changed much, ali would have held his title, but...
ali never got the parkinson disease. he suffered another ailment, called parkinson´s syndrome....
i do. too. no one with a 59% ko ratio (acc. to boxrec) is a "featherfist". but i agree with the rest of CST80´s assessment. fury went life and...
