Did Ali ever have a specific strategy and stuck with it for the whole fight?

There have been a few occasions where Ali has clearly altered his style or strategy for a specific opponent but I can't think of one that he had prepared in advance and applied it for the whole fight.

The most obvious example about a different strategy is when he fought Foreman but that was something he came up with after realising he was expending too much energy and (apparently) not something he had planned.

There was Manila where he started with an unusually high guard to protect himself against Frazier's left hook and he would spin Frazier around to stay away from the ropes but that strategy seemed to go out of the window after two minutes even though it was working.
Maybe it's hard to change your style when you've been fighting for years and your instincts take over.

There was the third Norton fight where Ali was flat footed and aiming to punch harder in the hope of knocking Norton out but that had to be scrapped as Norton built up an early points lead.

I suppose there was the Spinks rematch where he used his 'jab, jab right hand' strategy throughout the fight but it wasn't a really noticeable change in his approach.

 

This is true but I have seen fighters stick to a strategy throughout a fight.

Ali changed his strategy during the fight in Zaire and stuck with it.

But I didn't understand why he seemed to forget the strategy in Manila so quickly, especially when it was working.
I also don't understand why Dundee didn't get him to stick to the strategy when Ali moved away from it before the first round was over.

It was obviously something they'd worked on in training for the third Frazier fight.

 

I'm not disputing that.

I was asking about Ali.

 

I wouldn't say he always changed it up.

He rarely had to change things. He didn't need to.

 

I take improvisation as coming up with something new during a fight. He did that against Foreman.

I don't think he did it against Frazier or Norton.

 

I would call that conserving energy.

He didn't have the legs to move around constantly from 1970 onwards.