Agreed. Ali liked the limelight and the paydays too much. Look at how long it took for him to finally retire. Also, you fight as many quality guys as Ali did and you're eventually gonna lose due to styles, off-nights, underpreparation, controversial decisions, etc...
He couldn't, end of story. Ali was light years different to Norton. The bottom line is Ali kicked George's ass and at that time there wasn't a thing he could do about it. Later with Ali declining who knows, but i think the loss took a bit of stream out of George too, mentally as much as anything.
Wilfredo Gomez had he not moved up to Featherweight, and Carlos Zarate, and Jeff Chandler, had they stayed at Bantamweight, and trained.
Yeah was gonna say this. If they had never dangled as much money as they did in front of his face then he would've been unbeaten, wonder how opinions would've changed if he did :think Pryor's loss could of been avoided in that he was too coked up to fight and really should've retired to focus on getting clean If Gomez didn't decide to move up to Feather he would've been unbeaten IMO
This. If Gomez had stayed at 122, not fallen in love so much with his power, and had trained religiously, NOBODY would have beaten him.
Gene Tunney lost once to Greb. He beat Greb several times in his career. Had he fought the way he did in most of his fights vs. Greb... he'd be undefeated. Add in the good wins he did get and that is an amazing resume.
Hasim Rahman up until the loss to Lewis. Sure, he was stopped by Tua and Maskaev (talking about their first fight) but he should have won both of those fights. He had an excellent win over Corrie Sanders and a few other good wins. The win over Lewis was awesome... had he managed to get the wins over Tua and Maskaev, his reume would have been top notch going into the rematch with Lewis.