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If only boxing could be as great (again) as the the greatest. R.I.P champ.

Yup. The Greatest of all time including all weights. Rest in Peace Champ.

I can't see there ever being anyone again who will do for boxings profile what the great man did! He was everything you'd want from the strongest man on the planet.

Great fighter. Excellent showman. One of a kind.

R.I.P

There was that third? fight with Norton, where a lot of people thought Norton won. If that had happened, Ali would have faded into obscurity. But he won, and the rest is history.

(06-04-2016, 11:00 PM)diehard Wrote: [ -> ]There was that third? fight with Norton, where a lot of people thought Norton won.  If that had happened, Ali would have faded into obscurity.  But he won, and the rest is history.

Surely you mean the 2nd fight.

And I doubt very much he would have faded into obscurity, hence 'the greatest'. Strange post.

It's just that Norton had his number; the first two fights were split with a SD before Ali won the third, which many pundits thought Norton won. What I'm saying is that his legacy as the Greatest would have been tarnished by a top contender beating him two out of three.

I remember Ali doing the roper dope, and Foreman faded badly and got KO'd. Ali then tried it with Spinks, who had like, what 7 fights, and he lost. When asked why, he said that Spinks forgot to tire. Came back and beat him after losing the first one.

Ali lost 5 times, but he always avenged losses except at the end of his career, when he should have retired but needed the money. Holmes said he felt bad hitting him.

All that said, he did so much for boxing and humanity. Before his three year exile, he was so, so fast.

I think his legacies are the rumble in the jungle and the thrilla in Manila (amongst many others). Way before the third fight with Norton. Some strange comments there diehard.