Rehabbing Ali vs Mourning Ali vs Distracted Undertrained Ali vs Intimidated, Psyched-Out Ali

Making a mental note to circle back eventually to answer the actual content of your thread, but for now a brief comment on its syntax.

I absolutely delight in everything about your parentheticals. Gushin' over here.

For the non grammar nerds among us, here's a deep-dive:

1. Being a complete sentence in and of itself, the first one gets capitalized and has a punctuation mark inside the close parenthesis. Chef's kiss.
2. The plural possessive of Ali (being in this case multiple iterations of the man each plucked from a separate axis in linear time in disparate parallel timelines) does indeed follow the s-apostrophe convention.
3. "Angelo Dundees" is in fact, again speaking of alternate timelines, a plural countable proper noun. This is because they are, temporal incongruity aside, identical entities. This is to be differentiated from a scenario where you were referring to all seven of boxing's brother sharing the name "Gary Russell" (named after their father, who gave them all unique middle initials, but, curiously, and it would seem running contrary to eschewing obfuscation, all beginning with the letter "A.") - they would be "the Garys Russell".
4. Two periods and the comma for "in example" - delicioso, and this one being an embedded clause follows neither of the rules from #1.

Now, your average bumpkin would take one look at those exquisitely crafted clause bookended by round brackets and believe they've witnessed a clutter of what is certain to be poor form. Even if they are not so bold in their folly as to question its construction, most will not appreciate its beauty. I, however, doff my cap.

 

Ali was intimidated by Liston and played mindgames with Sonny, harassed him and seemed confident to cope (correct me if im wrong). The Liston fight in my book was his greatest performance

 

The Intimidated Ali is the iteration that faced Liston the first time. The Distracted Ali is essentially the one that stepped inside the ring in Quezon City to face Frazier in the rubber match. Depending on the location of the fight, I'm inclined to pick the Intimidated version of Ali more often than not.

 

Mourning Ali dedicates himself to winning in the memory of his dead trainer.
Ali wrsf
Followed by Ali wko
And then Ali wins unanimous.

All the other Alis scream out.. I'm still the greatest, I'm still pretty, I've not got a mark on my face and.................

 

All I know is James Toney Frazier would break there wills with ease.

 

They would probably finish in this order.

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