Comments Thread For: Exhibition or Not, Paul Beating Mayweather Would Leave a Mark on Boxing

[komandante]

The kind of fight that sucks

[pugil1st]

Relax. If you saw any of his two fights with KSI, you would know he has about as much chance as you have hitting the Powerball. I will not watch this fight because I think it's ridiculous. Good job on Mayweather and the Paul bros. on selling this crap tho. I have no doubt they plotted out the whole thing, hat and all.

[Rapscallion]

Stopped reading after that. You are dumber than a brick if you believe Alzado was the one holding back when it was clearly Ali holding back. Alzado even said that All's playful punches hurt and he knew Ali didn't want to hurt him. Alzado wasn't a boxer or anything close to one. You're just another one of these dumb, moronic, fans that don't know the difference between an exhibition and a real boxing match.

Not as dumb as you. From the get go boxing fans were dismayed by Ali's non performance against Alzado. Check the Internet for contemporary articles about Ali's performance in the exhibition. Furthermore it wasn't too long after this exhibition that Ali was roughed up by an amateur boxer in an exhibition in Germany. Also a former amateur opponent of Ali's (one he had defeated decades before) made a challenge to Ali, and Ali admitted that he quite likely would not at that point in his career beat this same former amateur opponent. You are without a doubt both ignorant of Ali's career as well as being delusional. It's the truth, and it hurts terribly because it illustrates without question Ali's decline as a boxer. No doubt next you'll declare that Ali never had Parkinson's either.

[TinAgeOfBoxing]

The fight itself is a sh** stain on boxing.