I still have the RING Magazine where Nat Fleischer, the RING Founder and Publisher, Mr. Boxing, as he was known, said that Ali gets away with it because he can backpeddle fast out of the way. But when his speed dropped, that fact that he lacks most of the boxing fundamentals needed will make him suffer greatly. Many other experts agreed.
And we all know how true this was and how it worked out for Ali. Fleischer was steeped in boxing all his life, reported from ringside on the Jefferies-Corbett fight around 1903-4 when only a kid teenager. And said that he saw every important fight on record ever since.
And we all know how true this was and how it worked out for Ali. Fleischer was steeped in boxing all his life, reported from ringside on the Jefferies-Corbett fight around 1903-4 when only a kid teenager. And said that he saw every important fight on record ever since.
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