If Ali was a septuplet...

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  1. cross_trainer

    cross_trainer Liston was good, but no "Tire Iron" Jones Full Member

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    If Ali was one of seven identical brothers, all of them made a career of boxing, and all of them had top trainers...how many would end up all time greats?
     
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  2. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    Cross_Trainer, are you some sort of evil genius?
     
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  3. cross_trainer

    cross_trainer Liston was good, but no "Tire Iron" Jones Full Member

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    BWAHAHAhaha..err...no, of course not. What would give you that impression?
     
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  4. TBooze

    TBooze Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I would feel very sorry for Odessa Grady Clay if she gave birth to seven future 15 stone + men on the same day:tired
     
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  5. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    :D

    Well you're always asking about steroid treatments, clones, the chaos theory...you're not genetically engineering a horrible army are you? An Ali army?

    Can you imagine the f*cking noise?
     
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  6. cross_trainer

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    [YT]j9a4K3481B0[/YT]
     
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  7. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    Bit of a worry really...

    The origonal question!

    Not in my opinion, no.

    Will the answer "everyone is different do"? Please?
     
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  8. cross_trainer

    cross_trainer Liston was good, but no "Tire Iron" Jones Full Member

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    Henry Cooper was the inspiration for this thread. It's always interesting to me, considering how often we harp on the physical and genetic qualities of each fighter, when one twin does significantly better than the other. Talk about X-factor.
     
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  9. DaveTheWave

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    It would be the most obnoxious division ever. And the most competitive... Seven brothers, come on!
     
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  10. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    I absolutlely agree with you. But when you are talking about the absolute peak of something - in this case physicality, as it is employed in boxing - it's all X factor. Or at least, predominantly.

    So sticking with Ali, what he had in physicality and genetics would carry him through his first reign as champ.

    But only "IT" would carry him through the second.
     
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  11. DaveTheWave

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    I think it would monopolize the top ten all-time heavy lists everywhere- Think about it; seven brothers in the top ten? That doesn't leave much room for many of the other greats...
     
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  12. McGrain

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    As were on the insane subject, which other three would you go with?

    I got Louis, Liston and Johnson in there with them.
     
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  13. DaveTheWave

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    I just think we should make three Joe Frazier brothers and sit back, drink a cold one, and watch...
     
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  14. ThePlugInBabies

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    can you imagine the press conferences and mind games when two of the brothers got it on? sod princes naz's entrance v kevin kelley, this truely would be the end of civilization as we know it.
     
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  15. Butch Coolidge

    Butch Coolidge Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    phillip holliday has a twin brother who wasn't much of a boxer.
     
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