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Its not like he fought a ton of fights like an SRR or someone. 61 fights...Wlad's already fought 59 and if you include kickboxing and amateur fights Vitali has fought hundreds of more fights than Ali and after Adamek would have fought 5 more times than Ali did after 35...So why is this so called "greatest" punch drunk to hell? He also had a 3 year lay off, and fought more guys under 200 before the layoff than he did over 200. And dont tell me that crap that he fought too long past his prime...after the age of 35 he fought only 4 times...2x against a cruiserweight with 6 pro wins and a draw...once where he quit against Larry Holmes and then finally against Berbick...and age 35 wasnt even 3 years after Foreman which was the best win of his career. So why is he so damn punch drunk if he was so hard to hit? Was he just a fraud, all smoke and mirrors? Were championship fights against 14-1-1 Alfredo Evangelista that went the distance proof that he simply had no power to get people over 200 lbs out of there and thus fought too many rounds?
Neither Vitali nor Wlad show any signs of being punch drunk, no slurred speech, no weight gain, no real deterioration...so are they both much harder to hit than Ali? Im trying to figure out if Ali was the greatest why did he clearly sustain much more damage than 99% of fighters over the course of his career...why so many close controversial decisions...jones, young, shavers, spinks, norton...why at 221 lbs was he fighting guys who came in weighing 180 lbs? These are questions I simply cant answer.
Neither Vitali nor Wlad show any signs of being punch drunk, no slurred speech, no weight gain, no real deterioration...so are they both much harder to hit than Ali? Im trying to figure out if Ali was the greatest why did he clearly sustain much more damage than 99% of fighters over the course of his career...why so many close controversial decisions...jones, young, shavers, spinks, norton...why at 221 lbs was he fighting guys who came in weighing 180 lbs? These are questions I simply cant answer.
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