7 Minutes in Heaven: Ali vs Williams

[escudo]

https://imgur.com/gallery/CbmnElX

I'm off to Amsterdam so no breakdowns for a couple weeks. Hope you enjoy it, I enjoyed writing it.

[Zaroku]

https://imgur.com/gallery/CbmnElX

I'm off to Amsterdam so no breakdowns for a couple weeks. Hope you enjoy it, I enjoyed writing it.

Very enjoyable. Thank you. Greatly appreciated.

[Anthony342]

Ah, good old Cleveland "The Steamer" Williams.

[BattlingNelson]

The definition of poetry in motion.

I know Ali didn’t face Liston, Frazier, Norton or Foreman that night, but he sure looked as an unbeatable fighting machine in its zenith.

[QueensburyRules]

--- Never begrudged Ali giving gutshot Cleve a good retirement fight.

HOWEVER, what got buried was Cleve's manager and promoter grabbed most of his purse.

Cleve died tragically as a pedestrian mowed down by a car, perhaps an apt metaphor for this fight.

But damn, he was ripped for this fight...R.I.P...

[Mooshashi]

That was Ali at his best. Then, after 3 1/2 years of walking around, all the strength in his legs disappeared. How, I'll never know.

[QueensburyRules]

--- Where in Texas have you been sentenced?

As to Ali, I suggest he matured his strength and confidence in his 3 yr ban and adopted his sparring style of laying on the ropes that he first officially displayed in the first Frazier fight.

[ShoulderRoll]

Ali did seem to go to the body in this fight more than usual.

[JimEarl]

Ali at peak but not so much Williams with a cop's .357 still lodged in him somewhere. Williams would be too slow at his best though and just dangerous enough of a puncher for Ali not to be fooling around with.

[OctoberRed]

Ali did seem to go to the body in this fight more than usual.

Agree with this.