Was Muhammad Ali the fastest heavyweight of all time?

So, in the time it took SRR to throw a jab, Ali could throw 2 or 3 if your memory serves you correctly?

 

The data from memory showed Ali to be 2-3 times quicker with the speed of his jab. If you watch prime Ali his jab was so quick opponents had little time to see it or slip it.

The analyses was completed by a major film laboratory so they knew what they were doing. No one here is in any position to question it.

 

I actually read in a book (the name escapes me) that while doing measurements, they found his hand speed was I believe 25 percent faster than that of Robinson' s

 

This.
Always been a suspect story.

Ali is probably the fastest overall at heavyweight though. Louis runs him close for handspeed.

 

??? Hardly.

 

Not as clumsy as the the comments you post, son.

 

Henry Cooper said the same thing Patterson had quicker hands and he was in the ring with both of them.

 

"The Muhammad Ali of 60’s was the fastest heavyweight ever. In the May 5, 1969 Sports Illustrated, Ali’s jab was measured with an omegascope. Ali’s jab, it was found, could smash a balsa board 16.5 inches away in 19/100 of a second. It actually covered the distance in 4/100 of a second, which is the blink of an eye. Jimmy Jacobs, who owned the world’s largest collection of fight films, said that on film tests with a synchronizer Ali’s jab was faster than that of Sugar Ray Robinson. Jacobs contended that Ali was not only the fastest heavyweight, but also the fastest fighter he ever saw on film.

Marv Jenson, who managed Gene Fullmer, concurred saying, “Ali has the fastest hands on any heavyweight I have ever seen.”

Bob Foster, the world light-heavyweight champion agreed, saying, in an interview after their fight, “He has no business being as fast as he is. I never saw that right hand.”

Coxscorner

 

Combine both hand and foot speed and Ali pre-exile is the quickest heavyweight in history for mine.

 

Lol. You’ll be telling us next Ali hands were so quick, a scientific analysis by a book writing club in the 1960s showed that he could write his name quicker than anyone in literature history.

 

The analysis of Ali’s speed vs SRR is a very well known fact. Whether you believe this very well known event is up to you. Suggest you study up!

 

No need. What reason would I have to doubt you? Afterall you are always telling us everything you post are well known facts and always well known to everybody that ever lived and anyone who doubts you on it are simply ignorant and should study up on well known facts.

 

Jack....don’t be an ignoramus.

 

Can’t help it. Don’t really doubt your boxing knowledge but you just gotta a way of winding people up and talking down to them which can be very irritating.

 

Thank you!