I have to say that I loved - and still love - how Ali utterly dismantled The Octopus...
Ali looked better, faster and more confident once he was champion. He now knew without doubt that he could beat Liston. That must have given him...
As Mike Tyson said: Ali would take you into deep water [during the championship rounds] and then drown you!
...and this is precisely why Frazier would not have defeated a pre-exile Ali, as a 1967 Ali would simply not have insulted Joe in the manner that...
From an observation I made years ago..."For a long time I have been arguing - to anybody who will listen - that simply being physically bigger...
You are only as fast as your opponent is slow. Fury seems quick now because most of his opponents are slow...but against Ali, Fury himself would...
I agree with this. After 15 rounds at a fantastic pace with both fighters absorbing tremendous punishment, Ali arose from the canvas as though he...
Which act of rising from a thunderous blow was more spectacular...Ali almost immediately rising from Frazier's left hook in the 15th round or Fury...
Me too...and the most interesting thing about it, is the former football player (Jim Brown). He is able to more accurately describe what is...
I love this post. The Terrel fight is seriously overlooked when discussing examples of Ali's dominance during his peak years. Here was a top...
Those were the prophetic words uttered by the "old mongoose" Archie Moore to Muhammad Ali on the eve of the celebrated "Rumble in the Jungle"....
I am going to say that I would have predicted a young Cassius Clay to beat Charles "Sonny" Liston...and because he had done the impossible...
I wouldn't agree with the last point. 67 Ali had the movement, stamina and speed to beat even a prime Holmes. That is why they are number 1 and 2...
This is an interesting one...1974 Ali had just beaten Frazier and then Foreman. Which other heavyweight could have done that? However, styles make...
Surely Tommy "the Duke" Morrison has to be included in this list?
