Did Muhammad Ali train during his exile?

I’m sure he worked out to keep in shape figuring he was going to return at some point but not with intensity of going into a fight.

 

Not really he got up to 240lbs.

 

You know before his exile he contemplated retiring?

 

I never understood how Ali could lose his legs and speed during that 3 yr layoff. He was still a young man, he hadn't been in brutal fights or sparring sessions, was not missing meals, etc. It's not like he retired at 37 and came back at 40.

Weird.

 

He was convicted of Draft Evasion in Houston, Texas, on June 20 1967, sentenced to 5 tears in prison, fined $10,000.00. He filed an appeal, and filed numerous appeals until he was exonerated by the U. S Supreme Court, on June 28 1971, war is not beautiful, he did not agree with what it represented as many American's opposed it, it was political.

 

Muhammad Ali was banned from boxing due to his conviction of Draft Evasion in 1967, his license was suspended, and he was stripped of his title. He was on the lecture circuit at different colleges to pay his his legal team while he appealed his conviction, he was not rich by any means at that time. I read that he sparred with various fighters, but it is not the same as being in the ring for a 15 round fight. He also gained an enormous amount of weight, which is not good for any one, no one like to see a flabby fighter, it shows lack of conditioning. He showed ring rust when he fought champion Joe Frazier, on March 8 1971, Frazier won it fair and square that night. Ali even looked terrible against Oscar Bonavena on Dec 7 1970, Ali won, TKO 15. He did not even come close to the Ali who stopped Zora Folley by TKO 7, on March 22 1967.

 

For a 6'3 240 is not much. Some super middle weight (168) climbs up to 210 lbs in between fights.

 

True but his pre exile weight was around 210, and his comeback for Quarry he came in at a trim 214. His highest was 236 against Berbick in 81, and he was flabby.

 

From a medical standpoint, it is very hard on the heart, an individual later in life could get coronary artery disease, also develop Diabetes. It looks better if a man that size weighs in at 215 lbs at the most. I know today, most of the younger generation like 240 lb athletes, but it could be as I said before, very difficult on the heart, carrying all that excess weight around. The heavyweights in most of our era's were in shape, it showed good training habits.

 

No one likes a flabby fighter, no muscle mass, too many Snickers or milk shakes.

 

I don't think he trained much. He was out on his tour of speaking at colleges a lot.

There are some footage of him when was hired as Ellis's sparring partner in the fall of 1969 and he says that he is very rusty.

He only did two exhibitions and one of them was just seven weeks before the Quarry fight.

Edit: The second exhibition was only two weeks before the fight according to this video. Ali reportedly came in at 221 lbs:

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No he did not but he should have it would have made the 70’s easier on him

 

He seemed to have lived pretty cleanly. He certainly didn't ballon up like Fury did. But I haven't seen anything that suggests that he was doing anything close to a pro routine of, say, training 5 days a week and doing roadwork. Most of his time seems to have been devoted to speaking at colleges.