Its not like he fought a ton of fights like an SRR or someone. 61 fights...Wlad's already fought 59 and if you include kickboxing and amateur fights Vitali has fought hundreds of more fights than Ali and after Adamek would have fought 5 more times than Ali did after 35...So why is this so called "greatest" punch drunk to hell? He also had a 3 year lay off, and fought more guys under 200 before the layoff than he did over 200. And dont tell me that crap that he fought too long past his prime...after the age of 35 he fought only 4 times...2x against a cruiserweight with 6 pro wins and a draw...once where he quit against Larry Holmes and then finally against Berbick...and age 35 wasnt even 3 years after Foreman which was the best win of his career. So why is he so damn punch drunk if he was so hard to hit? Was he just a fraud, all smoke and mirrors? Were championship fights against 14-1-1 Alfredo Evangelista that went the distance proof that he simply had no power to get people over 200 lbs out of there and thus fought too many rounds?
Neither Vitali nor Wlad show any signs of being punch drunk, no slurred speech, no weight gain, no real deterioration...so are they both much harder to hit than Ali? Im trying to figure out if Ali was the greatest why did he clearly sustain much more damage than 99% of fighters over the course of his career...why so many close controversial decisions...jones, young, shavers, spinks, norton...why at 221 lbs was he fighting guys who came in weighing 180 lbs? These are questions I simply cant answer.
Wlad & Vitali combined in their 15 year professional career(s) have a sum total of 1 fight with an elite A-level Heavyweight.
In that one fight, A prime Vitali Klitschko failed to last a mere 7 rounds with an old Lennox Lewis. And took a beating so horrific that he was nearly permanently disfigured and had to temporarily retire for 4 years to recover physically & psychologically.
Ali on the other hand, had somewhere in the neighborhood of at least 10 fights with elite A-Level (Lennox Lewis caliber) Heavyweights.
Ali has fought 10 times as many elite Heavyweights as the Klitschko's combined.
The simple answer to your question sir is, there's a very large disparity in quality when you compare Ali's competition to the Klitschko's. When you fight the type of guys Ali's fought, you're inevitably going to get hit a few times, and hard.
Imagine if Vitali & Wlad had to fight 10 Lennox Lewis caliber Heavyweights throughout the course of their career. You can't imagine it, can you?
If the Klits had to fight in stacked eras like the 70's & 90's. They wouldn't be the Klitschko's, they would be Andrew Golota.
CONGRATULATIONS SIR...or MADAM as the case may be. You have written the most lies in the first few lines of your post to date. FAR more than even the other fantasists who are not backward in imagination, but who reject actual, straingt out LIES which are provable to be false. The actual infoormation is ALL around us.
If you are in Australia,...then do yourself a favour, and STAY there. You wouldn't make it here.
And I think your assessment of Ali is also wrong. The very first person to call him "The Greatest' was........HIMSELF. I've written at least 3 posts about this in the past 3-4 days. It was when he went crazy after beating Liston and his handlers were struggling to restrain him, and he was trying to reach the ropes and was constantly yelling..."I am the GREATEST...I am the GREATEST. I recall Howard Cosell trying to restrain him also.
His buddy Bundini Brown later took it up as a gag, and they had a sort of Vaudeville act together, along with the "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" routine, and banging the palms of their hands together etc.
The journalists "jumpred in", and the rest of the DUMBO'S naturally followed suit...as they have done, to this very day. In answer to a usually respectable poster named Lead Uppercut, I went into Ali's record, his PEAK fight against hospital-case Cleveland Williams
{(You should REALLY look this fight up on the Internet, it was a pathetic description of a good, simple guy being taken to the cleaners and then thrown aside after the Ali fight. He ended up with $7,500 form it. His managers, who were supposed to have medical insurance for him, never had it and took all the medical bills he incurred from all the months spent in hospital, hanging between life and death, from his Ali purse. Left him with nothing, ruined his life. Very little of THIS was reported in the Boxing Magazines that I have.)}
Anyway Ali's record is really NOT SO HOT when you see at what level his opponents were at, and what the records of THEIR opponents were. I wish I'd saved all the info as I had with my Marciano "dig". It took a few hours, but I got to the TRUTH...and that was;
ALI WAS NOT THE GREATEST....................
Edgar, you do some good research. You dig deep and find some interesting information. However, I can't shake the feeling that you're a conspiracy theorist at heart. Healthy skepticism and critical thinking are vital in getting to the truth, but you always seem to swim against the current. Ali promoted himself as "The Greatest," but he acknowledged that "Sugar" Ray Robinson was greatest boxer of all time. Nearly everyone considers Muhammad Ali the greatest heavyweight ever. Some of this might be explained by the "herd mentality," but do you really think you're uncovering truisms that everyone else has missed?
While we're on the subject, who do you consider the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time? And who, in your opinion, is the greatest boxer of all time?
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Comparing Ali to the Klits is like comparing your local mayor to any U.S. President. Ali was and still is world renown. Ali makes 50+ millions dollars per year just being Muhammad Ali. That is a living legend. Ali sold the rights to his name and memorabilia for $150 million. The Klits are nowhere near that...many people don't even know who they are. You can go to any country in the world and say Muhammad Ali and they know exactly who you are talking about. How many stars and heads of state flew to Zaire to watch Ali vs. Foreman? Remember the fight was cancelled and the people stayed. If you consider the amount of money Ali made vs. the cost of living and the money the Klits are making vs. the cost of living isn't doesn't even come close to adding up. You are delusional...nuff said!
The question is......Who is delusional.......perhaps you should take a few simple math refresher courses........ Although the figures, including inflation and interest rates are all out there. Ali and Foreman were paid $5 mill each and I don't know how much of that was eaten up by not only their entourages (huge) but by DON KING the Super-Shark himself.
I don't think they got too much out of the $5 mill. And I've never seen that Mobutu, who showed no interest in the fight itself during the whole long period they were there, but only the PR value for himself, actually paid over the full amount.
I think that what they were most happy about was that they got out of there with their LIVES.
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Comparing Ali to the Klits is like comparing your local mayor to any U.S. President. Ali was and still is world renown. Ali makes 50+ millions dollars per year just being Muhammad Ali. That is a living legend. Ali sold the rights to his name and memorabilia for $150 million. The Klits are nowhere near that...many people don't even know who they are. You can go to any country in the world and say Muhammad Ali and they know exactly who you are talking about. How many stars and heads of state flew to Zaire to watch Ali vs. Foreman? Remember the fight was cancelled and the people stayed. If you consider the amount of money Ali made vs. the cost of living and the money the Klits are making vs. the cost of living isn't doesn't even come close to adding up. You are delusional...nuff said!
The "Heads of State" (mainly adjacent African) didn't come until just before the actual\ fight. The REST stayed (as you put it) BECAUSE Mobutu, the Dictator, closed off the country, and wouldn't allow anyone to leave, until after ther fight, which was delayed for SIX more weeks.
Foreman wanted to go back to the States and get proper treatment for his cut and better training facilities, and all the rest wanted to reach civilization again for a few weeks, but....... dictators have nasty habits when opposed........
die antwoord stop talking out of your ass
ali had the gloves changed not chopped up
2. copper could get cut from opening a stamp- he blamed his "aryan" bone structure- everyone else blamed his beedy little eyes
do some ****ing research, cooper got cut on his eyes crossing the stret
Cooper happened to be susceptible to cuts BECAUSE he had sharp bony ridges over his eyebrows. Many of his losses were due to cuts and he rarely won a fight without bleeding like a tap.
AT THE TIME the discussion was that Cooper should get the sharp bones planed down which would solve the problem. Another well known fighter whose name I just can't remember had had this done a couple of years before, and it seemed successful. But Cooper decided against it.
THAT'S why he he was a "BLEEDER". This was also a Cockney nickname for "Our 'ennery".
And I think your assessment of Ali is also wrong. The very first person to call him "The Greatest' was........HIMSELF. I've written at least 3 posts about this in the past 3-4 days. It was when he went crazy after beating Liston and his handlers were struggling to restrain him, and he was trying to reach the ropes and was constantly yelling..."I am the GREATEST...I am the GREATEST. I recall Howard Cosell trying to restrain him also.
His buddy Bundini Brown later took it up as a gag, and they had a sort of Vaudeville act together, along with the "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" routine, and banging the palms of their hands together etc.
The journalists "jumpred in", and the rest of the DUMBO'S naturally followed suit...as they have done, to this very day. In answer to a usually respectable poster named Lead Uppercut, I went into Ali's record, his PEAK fight against hospital-case Cleveland Williams
{(You should REALLY look this fight up on the Internet, it was a pathetic description of a good, simple guy being taken to the cleaners and then thrown aside after the Ali fight. He ended up with $7,500 form it. His managers, who were supposed to have medical insurance for him, never had it and took all the medical bills he incurred from all the months spent in hospital, hanging between life and death, from his Ali purse. Left him with nothing, ruined his life. Very little of THIS was reported in the Boxing Magazines that I have.)}
Anyway Ali's record is really NOT SO HOT when you see at what level his opponents were at, and what the records of THEIR opponents were. I wish I'd saved all the info as I had with my Marciano "dig". It took a few hours, but I got to the TRUTH...and that was;
ALI WAS NOT THE GREATEST....................
The Klitschkos are very wealthy men and still have their health. They will be able to retire and enjoy their riches and world-wide fame. They are astute businessmen and don't blow all their money on posses and other useless things.
Ali is very famous, very sick and from most reports, very broke.
I know who I would rather be.
According to Celebrity Net Worth.com, Ali has an estimated net worth of $80 million.
Wait, is he really asking for blood tests!?!
Remember he lives in South Africa so he knows he won't get a fight without him taking a test. He's putting it on the other guy to draw attention from the cesspool that he lives in.
Your slow ass does realize that he ha Parkinson's and that can be caused by one punch or a thousand -_- and for that matter any trauma to the body. It's like a cancer cell everyone's got one just some people's always lay dormant and others activate...
Wait, questioning my athleticism? Post a picture of yourself dude. Id love to see it. I have one of me up, so post one of you. And what are you talking about, Wlad and Vitali are kings, they make more money than Ali ever did, they get more fans in the stands than Ali ever did, they have more worldwide paying viewers than Ali ever did, they have a bigger market share of the countries they fight in than Ali ever did. Youre a joke. Wlad got paid 30% of Ali's entire net worth for his last fight...hilarious...and Ali has had 30 years of interest and huge growth to allow his money grow and its not like he can spend it on anything.
Go to my profile page and see my picture as an All-Conference College Running Back.
Comparing Ali to the Klits is like comparing your local mayor to any U.S. President. Ali was and still is world renown. Ali makes 50+ millions dollars per year just being Muhammad Ali. That is a living legend. Ali sold the rights to his name and memorabilia for $150 million. The Klits are nowhere near that...many people don't even know who they are. You can go to any country in the world and say Muhammad Ali and they know exactly who you are talking about. How many stars and heads of state flew to Zaire to watch Ali vs. Foreman? Remember the fight was cancelled and the people stayed. If you consider the amount of money Ali made vs. the cost of living and the money the Klits are making vs. the cost of living isn't doesn't even come close to adding up. You are delusional...nuff said!
really, this is all that needed to be said. the thread shouldn't have gone past the first page.
Actually, all that needed to be said is that Ali isn't "punch drunk". He has Parkinson's disease, which isn't caused by blows to the head.
This was a failed thread right from the start.
(Still shaking my head....)
Jesus Christ some you guys are pathetic.
First of all, before the US government banned him from boxing for 3.5 years, he was indeed super fast, and virtually impossible to hit. Prime Ali was unmatched.
After he came back from forced retirement, he was easier to hit. But, he also kept on fighting for a very long time.
It's obvious you $hits don't know anything about boxing. Stop embarrassing yourself.
really, this is all that needed to be said. the thread shouldn't have gone past the first page.
His punishment came at the end of his career, he never should of fought Frazier the third time, Holmes, Berbick or Shavers. He probably is the way he is now of 2 or 3 fights not his whole career.