Lyle Alzado vs Hafþór Björnsson

I went with the mountain. But Alzado was a true tough guy

 

Thor needed a breather after a body shot from Lopez and got beat up by guys half his size while wearing head gear.

He is a lot like Eddie Hall in the sense that he is in for a rude awakening I hate that either of them post videos like "A day in the life of a boxer"

Hall and Thor are constantly trying to brand themselves with boxing and it is just cringey.

Anyways the brain dead Ali who Azaldo beat up on was better then Thor could ever aspire to be.

Alzado was also a piece of sh1t of the highest order for going so hard on a man with brain damage fck him.

 

He was a football player who went hard after a man with brain damage.

 

It would take a full Thor to beat Alzado. Haf a Thor wouldn’t get it done.

 

Oh the guy was still a bad ass

 

How so?

 

Because rather than just being a power lifter he actually crushed guys for a living. Do you truly know who he was or did you just see this thread and google him and say “ oh he was just a football player who happened to spar in an exhibition with Ali ” ?

 

"Crushed guys" On a football field.

 

He was a football player was my point who's highlight as a tough guy was taking it hard to a brain damaged Ali.

 

I am a moralist quick to "Tune Up" cruel behavior, but I was a kid at the time & in 1979, or even 1980 in the lead up to the Holmes bout, nobody was saying Ali was brain damaged.
He was yet another fighter trying to hold on too long, but people wanted to believe he could pull off another miracle.
Given the lack of transparency then-& way before the Internet-it was understandable people would think it was possible.

Alzado might have had many flaws, but he did not know Ali's condition.

 

Ali was not known to be brain damaged at this time.

You can retroactively look and say ‘I see all the signs’ but the Mayo Clinic and UCLA medical center both did complete work ups on him and cleared him to fight after this. It’s easy to know how he ended up and then say ‘I see all the clues’ but at the time this wasn’t a thing.

Much is made of Ferdie Pacheco walking way but when he did AT THE TIME he said he was worried about Ali having kidney issues and when the Mayo Clinic (the No. 1 medical facility in the world) did its workup and said he did not have such problems Ferdie issued a statement and said ‘Well I’m glad you got it checked out, if they say you’re good then you must be good, I still wish you’d retire but I wish you the best of luck if you don’t.’

It’s not like Ali was walking around and everyone in the world was saying ‘OMG he’s brain damaged.’ To act like Lyle knowingly walked into the ring with a man who was half brain-dead is ludicrous.