Muhammad Ali - boring or exciting?

exciting against the rright opponents. kinda of boring when he was outclassing fellas

it was his charisma outside the ring that made him box office. he wasnt like tyson were you could watch all his fights over and over again

 

I found him to be boring and was never interested in his career.

 

Stylistically, there were few fights he carried on his own. Cleveland Williams and Brian London were two of the exceptions, fast paced instances where he was in terrific shape and bursting with explosive energy. But he wasn't usually a riveting ring performer. During his second career, Dunn may have been the best display he produced on his own, perhaps Bob Foster also, rare situations were he did damage and scored multiple knockdowns with individual shots. But he usually won through dull tactics.

 

Sometimes thrilling, especially before his lay off, but in all honesty some of his fights - particularly the later ones - I struggle to watch because they are so dull. He was a mixed bag, but when he was exciting he was superb to watch.

 

he has some pretty good fight and he was exciting more than boring

 

He put boxing on the front pages,and was always entertaining,even if he went over the top sometimes. In the ring,Jose Torres summed him up expertly "Don't watch Ali's feet or hands when he fights. Watch his brains.." I can understand that not everyone is an Ali fan,but I simply cannot comprehend as to why anyone would find him boring.

 

One of the most exciting HW's ever

 

quite boring to be honest

 

It's easy. His style, especially in his most lauded 70's era, could be horrible to watch. Lots of pitty pat inconsistent punching and flurries, clowning, some spoiling, holding behind the head and never getting in trouble for it.. Not really what I'm into.

I do think the 60's version was more entertaining.

 

get a copy of any boxing magazine from the 60's and 70's and who do you find on the cover more often then not?ali fair from boring boxing rode on his shoulders at the time

 

I think most would agree with you and did back then as well. It's just that he had more exciting opposition (at a few famous occasions at least) in the 70's. His decline made him less exciting against average opposition, but more exciting against the really good opponents.

 

IN the 1970s mostly boring. You watch boxing to see a fist fight, not a clowning laying against the ropes sideshow.

He had some fights where he was really exciting ( Frazier,Foremen ) but way to many were really really boring. Kind of like watching Bentiez. Throw some freaking punches.

 

He was involved in two classics against Frazier, another pretty exciting fight with Foreman, and the Shavers fight (when Ali was badly declined) was pretty entertaining, but on a consistent basis, he was rather boring. He does brilliant things in there, but you often have to sit through a lot of stink to see it.

The Williams fight was pretty much the only title defense of his in his first reign that was really entertaining to watch, and to a lesser extent, London.