Ali is the greatest athlete in the history of mankind

[StarshipTrooper]

i do believe that basketball is the more purely athletic sport than boxing as are many positions in football.

there isn't a ton of skill involved in being a runningback, pass rusher, wide receiver, and a few other positions in foes
you gotta be either gotta be a fast beast or or just greasy and fast with hands.

I dunno, there's a pretty good reason why a slow unathletic white dudes like Steve Largent and Dwight Clark were vastly superior receivers than world-class athletes Willie Gault and Renaldo Nehamiah All the athleticism in the world won't help you be a superior receiver if you can't hold onto the ball, run your routes, or have the moves (which ARE learned) to get open :grin9:

Poet

[New England]

I dunno, there's a pretty good reason why a slow unathletic white dudes like Steve Largent and Dwight Clark were vastly superior receivers than world-class athletes Willie Gault and Renaldo Nehamiah All the athleticism in the world won't help you a superior receiver if you can't hold onto the ball, run your routes, or have the moves (which ARE learned) to get open :grin9:

Poet

there are obviously many skills needed to compete as a receiver in the nfl, especially at the top level where you're always getting the ball and getting more involved coverage planned around you

you gotta be tough as nails as well, physically and mentally,
you need to be willing to lay prone to grab a ball,
and able to absorb the hit if you take it
like wes welker ^^

but it's not a skillset as deep as say, a linebacker on the new england patriots, who literally runs the defense
or a quarterback like manning or brady, who rely not only on cannon arms but more importantly the work and skills developed in the pocket as a quarterback
manning calls his own plays 95 percent of the time


or boxing, what i believe to be the most skillbased // learning based of all athletic endeavors

[Pessimistic]

GTFO here Ali wasn't the greatest athlete ever. He decided to pound sand in Mecca because of an identity crises. He's fake, an overhyped, fraud that gets to much credit just because he's a ****** ***gggit! Go change your diapers fraud! Get outta my country with Islam bs. Real men are Joe Frazier,Joe Louis, and Floyd Patterson. Oh yeah Sugar Ray Robinson of course because he would have beat your fake fraud ass Ali! You get know place among the greats with me!

[Miburo]

He's not even the greatest athlete in the history of boxing Certainly up there, but RJJ was the purest athlete. Ali was great because he was able to adjust and continue at the championship level after losing his athleticism.

[Zocalo]

GTFO here Ali wasn't the greatest athlete ever. He decided to pound sand in Mecca because of an identity crises. He's fake, an overhyped, fraud that gets to much credit just because he's a ****** ***gggit! Go change your diapers fraud! Get outta my country with Islam bs. Real men are Joe Frazier,Joe Louis, and Floyd Patterson. Oh yeah Sugar Ray Robinson of course because he would have beat your fake fraud ass Ali! You get know place among the greats with me!

Um ok.......

[McGoorty]

muhammad ali is better than michael jordan, wayne gretski, lance armstrong, jim brown, willy mays and babe ruth combined.
(yea, this is for you DuncanJL lol!)

I don't think Ali was even the greatest fighter, and he is NOT better than all of them combined, do you really think that ?????????

[McGoorty]

GTFO here Ali wasn't the greatest athlete ever. He decided to pound sand in Mecca because of an identity crises. He's fake, an overhyped, fraud that gets to much credit just because he's a ****** ***gggit! Go change your diapers fraud! Get outta my country with Islam bs. Real men are Joe Frazier,Joe Louis, and Floyd Patterson. Oh yeah Sugar Ray Robinson of course because he would have beat your fake fraud ass Ali! You get know place among the greats with me!

That's just OFF MAN,.......... OFF,...... take your hate somewhere else !!!!!!!

[$Bullsfam$]

I think Ali is the one of the most durable athletes of all time but not the most athletic. I know Jordan wasn't taking punches but in his 30's he was still running wild down the court slammin' all kinds of crazy in his last 2 championship ring wins.

Whereas Ali was a crazy good athlete early in his career but it seems after that layoff he was more flatfooted but still with sick hands and head movement and I think the most important of all, solid rock of a freakin chin.

[New England]

I think Ali is the one of the most durable athletes of all time but not the most athletic. I know Jordan wasn't taking punches but in his 30's he was still running wild down the court slammin' all kinds of crazy in his last 2 championship ring wins.

Whereas Ali was a crazy good athlete early in his career but it seems after that layoff he was more flatfooted but still with sick hands and head movement and I think the most important of all, solid rock of a freakin chin.

that's the punches, bro. first place they show up is the legs

and like you said, the layoff

[MRBOOMER]

Well other then the fact this is bs I can think of boxers that top him athletically (Roy jones, mayweather, Gamboa, pacman) the list goes on he'll even Bhop is his athletic ability and preservastion of his body took him this far and his ring iq. If you wanna go into other sports you can name soccer players swimers cyclist sprinters and in some cases foot ball players that were as good a athlete if not better then Ali and ima big ali fan-_-