The Witherspoon that came in to the Holmes fight ,like a young lion ,Replacing Lyle up against Ali ? Ali ,far from invincible that night ,is he ready to be taken ?
Yes, Ali was pretty much coming to the end, his last hurrah was against Frazier, but he simply had to fight in that one anmd would never want Frazier to beat him, from Manilla onwards he was finished, after the Foreman fight he got slower each year and that sped up after tge Shavers fight when scars wee found on his brain and his speech slowed down, he was awful against Earnie also, Wither spoon would have beaten him around this time unless he could muster up the effort he did v Frazier, which he did not do v Lyle. Larry Holmes who sparred with Ali during this period, said he would easily beat him sparring and that Ali wouldn`t train until two weeks before the next fight coming up, Ali was more interested in talk shows by that point than boxing.