Watched a Documentary this morning on the build up & fight between Ali & Holmes. Ali couldn't even hit the speed bag for longer than 10 seconds, no timing whatsoever. He was clearly not fit to fight & how they allowed it to happen was a disgrace.
It was terrible. The only purpose it served was to unify the true championship with the lineal championship.
Ali should have stayed retired after Spinks II, perfect ending to a perfect career... but it was the great mans own decision & after what he`d given boxing it would have been wrong for anyone to deny him what h wished - even tho everyone but Ali knew his day had come & gone.
Ali is my favourite fighter & I have never watched it... I`m definitely in no rush to watch the ****.
Indeed it should never of happened, but there was a lot of money to be made, and with Ali being an Egotist supreme and missing the limelight, it would of been very hard to stop it/him, if a commission banned the fight the fight would of been taken to a circus tent in a field in Oklahoma if necessary, Ali had worked so many miracles in the past, that many people were happy to over-ride obvious common sense and belive the hype and propaganda of his residual capabilities - so the people closest to the event had a vested interest. But they would of known about any Brain Scan anomalies, Thyroid Drug taking, rapid unnatural weight loss, Dr Ferdy Percheco saw the writing on the wall after the shavers fight and left the circus, he his one of the few to come out of the Ali Camp with any credit, - nd there was still Berbick to Come ! I find the Jerry Quarry Match with Ron Cramer Likewise a very distastful "Event" that should never of been allowed. There should of been some way of saving these Legends from themelves ....But when money comes in one door.....
Definately worth a watch. It only shows glimpses of the fight, it's more about the build up, which is better because I wouldn't really want to watch the whole fight.
