Well said. When I read some of the posts from people saying Ali wouldn´t win against the Klitschko brothers I really think that they haven´t seen Ali. They don´t know how great he was, or Frazier or Foreman. You have to understand that neither of the K brothers would have survived a fight like Thrilla in Manilla. Can you imagine them keeping up with that speed and intense that both Ali and Frazier gave each other. Ali was not in his prime in any of the Frazier or Foreman fights. The best Ali was during Cleveland Williams fight. Perhaps he was more experienced in the 70´s but he was not as fast and impossible to hit as he was during the 60´s. None of the K brothers would have a chance against the Ali who fought Frazier or Foreman or Norton. To even think that they would keep up with young Clay in any way is stupid. It´s like getting a snail fight a cobra. Are people blind? The K brothers can´t throw combinations apart from 1-2. They don´t have any defense if the oponent throw more than 2 punches at a time. Imagine what Clay/ Ali would do with them. No one in the Heavyweight division has had that handspeed. When he was young no one could hardly touch him, he was so hard to hit. It is just silly imagine that the K brothers would survive more than 2 rounds. Here we talking about the greatest of all time against 2 boxers that honestly don´t belong in top 10. Ali was not superhuman or a god, but honestly you don´t need to be to beat them, just put punches together and you will see what problems they will have. None of the fighters who fought them seems to really want to fight, Ali would have and he would have destroyed them both.
Sanders who? Brewster who? People are blinded by Wlad's supremely super tallness and his russianness. You know what Wlad and Ali would look like in the ring together? This content is protected Just toss..say..30 more lbs on Terrell.
How come we have some many Bulked up fighters on roids or slobby not in condition fighters. It seems like Ali never done weight just trained hard out keeping his body cut.
Ali got KTFO by a slow weak left hook from a 180 lb bum Wlad would annihilate Ali [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgPiyMpeEQY[/ame]
To the post above me (the one with the video), Henry Cooper was highly rated and had a very strong left hook. Ali went on to win the fight. People picking one time he got knocked down (not KTFO) and disregarding that he beat big hitters like Liston, Frazier, Foreman, etc obviously have an agenda. Heck, even a shot Ali with oncoming Parkinson's wasn't knocked down by Larry Holmes, who most consider to be Top 10 ATG HW.
5 star post. Thank you for actually commenting with some sense. People supporting the Wlad argument never come with anything Wlad has done in the ring to state their case.
Is that your definition of KTFO? Whats even better is that the one punch Ali was susceptible to, Wlad can't throw to save his life.
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You do remember that Vlad got STOPPED by ATG`s Sanders and Brewster,right ? Tow of THE biggest punchers in heavyweight history !
Sanders and Brewster must be ATG's. They must be 6'8, 250 and have four arms each. How in the world did Wlad get stopped?
Ali was unbeaten and really untested until he had that 3 1/2 yr forced hiatus. Those 3 1/2 yrs were Ali's prime years. He was robbed of then we were robbed of them. Even with that Muhammad Ali is the greatest HW champ of all time.