Are you comfortable with Ali beating up smaller, aging men like Archie Moore and Floyd Patterson?

Winning two fights doesn't make you the GOAT

 

Your opinion isn't dispositive.

 

True, but neither is yours.

 

It should be.

 

Based on what?

 

My opinion, of course.

 

Then we come to an impasse since I disagree

 

I'll make my case and then you can disagree. I will make it one change in my opinion. He doesn't retire. He's injured in a car accident and can never fight again, kind of like Roberto Duran but Duran was six hundred years old. If George retired after Caracas all people would have are memories of are his obliteration of Ionas Chepulis at the 1968 Olympics and his obliteration of a consensus top ten heavyweight bouncing him off the canvas six times in two rounds and his obliteration of another member of the IBHOF almost knocking him out of the ring. We never witness the debacles in Zaire and Puerto Rico. George is seen as a veritable juggernaut. Mike Tyson might have been in the seen in the same light if he retired after Atlantic City but Spinks and Old Larry aren't quite the same scalps. Feel free to disagree

 

Maybe but I think two great wins isn't enough to compensate for his lack of long title reign but to each their own

 

Finally you’ve fessed up Sal!

Surely you didn’t think you were fooling anyone with your salsanchezfan moniker.

You’ve always been a thinly veiled PBF tragic.

 

Reading through this thread in chronological order, earliest to latest, I made a mental note to applaud you for bringing the discussion back to its obvious and rightful focus - morality. See first quote below.

But then, as I read further, due to yet more wayward commentary from other parties, I saw that you had to AGAIN tighten the focus back to the the orig. and actual premise. See second quote.

Absolutely tiresome and a waste of time for you to have to repeatedly do same - but kudos to you for continuing to fight the good fight.

 

With emphasis on the "tragic."