Who would have beaten a 1966-67 Muhammad Ali?

DJN16 · Mar 21, 2014

mcvey said: ↑

His effort against Berbick is for me like his one-sided thrashing against Holmes, stark evidence that he no longer had any business in the ring.
Watching the Holmes fight on closed circuit in Leicester Square London was one of the saddest experiences of a boxing nature I can remember . I imagine it was the same for those fans of the Brown Bomber, seeing him knocked nearly out of the ring by the rising Marciano.

I went to see Ali give an exhibition, about a month after he beat Foreman . He was fat and funny, lucid and sharp witted,whether he would have remained that way had he retired then I don't know, but I know I would be happy to have not had the FOTC and the fights that followed if it meant that he was able to converse and engage with a modicum of that charm and wit today .
Suggesting that he should have continued after it was glaringly apparent that he was totally shot and already becoming enveloped by and isolated in his illness, borders on the obscene as far as I'm concerned.

Hopkins lives like a monk and is very astute at picking his opponents.

He has never taken much punishment.
I wonder if he fights Stevenson or Kovalev,and receives a humiliating beating you will think he is doing alright?
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Ali should have retired after thrilla in manilla, his only great performance after that was against Earnie Shavers. He was just fighting for fame, paydays, keeping his entourage happy etc. Most of all and sadly he just could not let go of the sport that made him great and he has suffered as a consequence.

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