Boxing "historian" Tony Triem calls Ali a "bum"

James Figg would have destroyed bums like Fitzsimmons.

 

Yes, but only because he fought with a cudgel.

 

And therein lies the problem with modern boxing. Bums like Fitzsimmons and Ali lack old-school skills like cudgeling.

 

Or indeed the "ring IQ" of a genius like Norman Selby.

Feigning being deathly ill but needing the scratch to pay medical bills, skin caked in talc and everything, playing on an opponent's sympathies and then kayoing him brutally. You just don't see that kind of brilliance today.

For all our modern nutrition, I think we're got stupider.

 

Didn't know stupider was actually a real word IB. I must be suffering from better nutrition too. :yep

 

I hate calling fighters bums, but ali was a cheat and so was his trainer angelo Dundee as Dundee admitted

 

have you seen the vid of him slagging them off for saying chris areola is a great heavyweight hahaha. the video makers think areola is good. who are the guys that make this ****, they must be off their heads on coke or summin.

 

That's why you teach your kids to stay off the drugs !