Can you imagine how Ali would've been burned down after the Doug Jones fight, here?

Great post, ChrisPontius. I could've written that myself but I really didn't want to as no one's stopping the BS and after a few thays ESB Forum calms down anyway.

But if I've written the post myself, I would've written the same as yours word by word.

 

Ali was "burned" at those times.

But later in his career he more than made up for it by beating series of great fighters like LIston, Frazier, Foreman and good fighters like Norton, Quarry and Shavers.

 

I had posted some of this on my thread. Perhaps you picked it up there. Yes, fighters like Chambers specialize in making their opponents look bad. He has a very tight defense. And Ali in fact LOST to Douglas, Jones, and Cooper (in fight #1), but was given a crooked decision. There were other crooked decisions in favor of Ali, too, the two weird Liston affairs were just the most notorious.

 

Povetkin has great fundamentals, a solid workrate, and what appears to be a good chin.

He just lacks the tallent that fighters like Ali or Tyson had, and he lacks the punching power of Klitschko and Lewis.

He's a good fighter, but he's bland because he lacks the punching power and finese that fans would like to see.

He's still a good heavyweight though, but he's definitely not ready for Wlad.

 

No one is ready for Wlad.

That was only Povetkin's 15th pro fight, and he was not at his best either. He was recovering from the flu, and Chambers - previously 30-0 - with his tight defense - is a fighter who specializes in making his opponents look bad.

 

Ali made a career out of proving people wrong, and 90% of you lot should probably know by now that nobody on these forums have much common sense.

 

People still cry about a 19 year old Tyson taken the distance by Tillis so yes i can imagine the bull**** we would have heard after Alo Jones.