Thrilla in Manilla - That should never happen again.

[StarshipTrooper]

You should take a look at a then and now interview with Ali (unless you've already seen it).

He is wiser than ever despite the Parkinson's which only affects his speech, not his mind.

Ali was still able to be ironic about himself, even while saying all kinds of controversial things when he was younger. One moment he would argue with you about religion and politics and the next moment he would make you laugh at his jokes.


-Muhammad Ali

Ali had great respect for Frazier despite the things he said about him when promoting their three fights.


-Muhammad Ali

I'm sure we can all agree with that.



Earnie Shavers nearly knocked Holmes out cold but never got Ali off his feet. According to Shavers, he could have knocked out any man with the punches he landed on Ali, he said Ali's chin was abnormal.

Wepner "knockdown" was hardly a knockdown.

The Henry Cooper KD just proves that any man can get knocked down by anyone if hit in the right spot, especially at 21 years of age.
In his next fight Ali took Liston's best punches (I bet you'll say the fight was fixed).

[QUOTE=JAB5239;4314774]

Great stuff Manchine. I had never heard that Frazier poem before.

Jab, The Manchine, I'd take this guy on too but you two are doing such a good job slapping him around I figured I'd just watch and enjoy

Poet

[JAB5239]

Here you go Fearless:

http://www.**********.com/?d=QJVYYE45

No boxing fan should go through life without seeing THIS fight!

Poet

Very, very true. An excellent fight!

[StarshipTrooper]

Please make those cases then. I promise they will be not only laughed at, but torn to shreds. The ONLY person who can be argued a greater heavyweight than ali is Joe Louis. And as a loyal Joe Louis fan, even that is debatable.

No ****! I'm about the biggest Joe Louis fan that ever lived, he's my all-time favorite fighter, and at the risk of sounding corny and juvenile he's my personal hero. Even so I rank Ali as the #1 ATG Heavyweight because watching the fights I believe that's just an objective assesment.

Poet

[StarshipTrooper]

I dont like Tyson he's overrated and **** just like Ali
but i would fancy him against Ali.

Lennox Lewis, Evander Holyfeild, Larry Holmes and Joe Louis
they are the greatest heavyweights who ever lived
forget Tyson and Ali because they are just over hyped bums.

Mike Tyson was certainly over-hyped and to his Kool-Aid drinking nuthuggers overrated as well.....BUT he was NOT a bum. The man in arguably an ATG and certainly no worse than a near-great. Bum? Give me a break! While he may not crack my top 5 ATG (and sometimes not make my top 10) the dude could fight ffs.

Poet

[Richie-G]

i would love to see more fights like it, and i heard that the israel vazquez - rafeal marquez trilogy was great but i cant find it anywhere, does anyone know where i can watch it?

[StarshipTrooper]

i would love to see more fights like it, and i heard that the israel vazquez - rafeal marquez trilogy was great but i cant find it anywhere, does anyone know where i can watch it?

I have the trilogy and am schedualed to upload it sometime soon here. Let me see what I can do to get it to you sooner. It's a very good three fight series.

Poet

[The Jackal]

The Thrilla in Manila:True Storys

Saw a doc on tv last night called True storys:"The Thrilla In Manila" Very good but dark how far 2 men were prepared to go at each others egos was brutal but they weren't fighting for the HW title they were fighting for the title of each other blinded by common sense they never saw how close someone came to dying for those who think the sport is just glamour & coined phraises its not if ever there was anything called upon in a fighter it was that fight Joe Frazier was asked if he'd have foguht the 15th round knowing he would die he said yes straight away.
This doc didn't show all the fun side of things but fucoses more on the tauthing Ali gave Frazier it didn't paint a very nice picture of Ali as seen by the rest of the world but had Frazier not been pulled Ali was going to have his gloves cut off i think its the greatest fight ever fought given the heat circumstance etc & a bad taste for each other this doc isn't The Closest Thing To Dying but very different & dark.

[Richie-G]

I have the trilogy and am schedualed to upload it sometime soon here. Let me see what I can do to get it to you sooner. It's a very good three fight series.

Poet

cheers mate

[Smokin'J]

Love it when people talk about Frazier in this way, makes me feel warm from inside
(yes im a Frazier nuthugger)

[StarshipTrooper]

I'm not a Frazier nuthugger but I AM a Frazier fan and it sickens me to see how forgotten he is by such a large swath of boxing "fans". How soon people's memories slip! Sometimes it seems to me that to a large number of posters if they didn't see it on HBO in the past year it never happend.

Poet