Interest golden nuggets in Joseph Eig's new Ali book .. Second wife Belinda discusses going to Ali's hotel room at the New Yorker the day before the fight after no one could find him and banging hard for a long time, calling him out .. he finally opened up, naked with a nude hooker in the bathroom hiding ... she was used to his cheating but so upset with his nonsense and what she said was lack of serious training for such an important fight that she prayed for Frazier to beat her husband. Shows how little anyone really knows about what actually goes on behind the scenes ..
Suspected as much. Dundee and Mailer have also said that Ali's attention wasn't entirely where it should be. Women and glitz distracting him. Idiotic for a fight like that.
Astonishing actually when you think about it .. the book has some pretty interesting insight into Ali as a person through the years .. I"m about halfway through but enjoying it ..
One flaw that Ali had, was that he could've been a better family man. This seems to be an oddly common trait for many supremely gifted people.
I have friend who boxed in the 80's and was on a collision course with Holyfields in the ams he met this girl in a hot tub before a qualifying fight and that's all she wrote...down hill from there.. Woman= root of ALL evil! Fighters need to use their head right and the right head
If Ali had Mickey in his corner instead of Angelo, he would've known better: This content is protected spt
I think it has more to do with the fact that some supremely gifted people become very egotistical, especially when they have fame, wealth, and status.