How would the Chamberlain-Ali fight have gone?

[QueensburyRules]

--- That your limited mind could only view Wilt as a basketball player speaks more to your gross dyslexic view of reality.

Cus was impressed enough to rhapsodize about his fighting acumen.

[The Old LefHook]

Queen believes a basketball player would beat Ali. His patter has not changed in 20 years.

He has to be controversial. It is mandatory. He must not have noticed my points total. He doesn't even know he is criticizing the alpha male around this goat pen. His total is mere pocket change for the likes of me. That is how much knowledge I have. And almost every one of those points I got the old fashioned way--I earned them with deep boxing savvy.

[The Old LefHook]

In fact my points total represents only part of what I should have, so many times has the house banker on here denied me my rightful increase from interest. It staggers the imagination to consider what my total might be if I had not been cheated so frequently. No honest man could stand before me.

[HOUDINI563]

Everyone knows Wilt was a great athlete but he was not a FIGHTER. Ali or Frazier, or Holmes or Chuvalo...heck even Butterbean knocks him unconscious. You need to BE a fighter to beat a fighter.

[The Old LefHook]

Everyone knows Wilt was a great athlete but he was not a FIGHTER. Ali or Frazier, or Holmes or Chuvalo...heck even Butterbean knocks him unconscious. You need to BE a fighter to beat a fighter.

A real boxer fighting Wilt would be like a professional poker player attending a house game full of delivery drivers and housewives.

You are right, even Butterbean would probably KO the stilt. Monzon or Hagler probably would have KO'd him. Little Duran might have knocked him out.

[dan_cov]

If Chamberlain ever developed a jab his following right cross would have been devastating; maybe impossible to stop completely. If he ever developed an over-hand right like Monzon he would have killed people.

If he had fought Ali in '76 he would have looked foolish.

In the photo above he is in a 'south paw' stance; if you ask a right-handed eight year old boy to take a boxers stance he will naturally put his dominate hand forward (take a south paw stance) - I wonder if it is a sign that he knew so little or if he just adjusted for the camera?

I just don't even know anymore with this site.
Either some fantastic trolling or I'm giving you way too much credit.

[The Old LefHook]

The world's strongest man:

http://explorepahistory.com/kora/files/1/2/1-2-1423-25-ExplorePAHistory-a0l1a0-a_349.JPG

Yeah. Sure.

[The Old LefHook]

Maybe Wilt would beat this fellow, known as Popeye, in arm wrestling. Wilt's or Liston's mitts would impress like those of a baby next to Dabe's. In fact, check out the baby picture of Dabe, to see the largest baby mitts ever.

https://www.google.com/search?q=photos+jeff+dabe&client=firefox-b-1-ab&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=5N10lsPU9IqmFM%253A%252C5Ct7AIimoqK0LM%252C_&usg=AFrqEzdRznHqhax32VX6ku7dhYh-JfBRUw&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjHqZ7XudTcAhUFr1kKHcLhAlkQ9QEwAHoECAAQBA#imgrc=Oo48nQ2PgdeLSM:

[QueensburyRules]

The world's strongest man:

http://explorepahistory.com/kora/files/1/2/1-2-1423-25-ExplorePAHistory-a0l1a0-a_349.JPG

Yeah. Sure.

--- Angus Macaskill of Scotland generally accorded the strongest natural man.

This the lifting to carry era, not the bench press era.

[uncle ben]

Valuev had the same height and reach as Chamberlain and was 30 to 40 pounds heavier. Could he beat Ali? Plus Valuev had much more boxing experience than Chamberlain.