Comments Thread For: Muhammad Ali-George Foreman, Forty Years Later

**TaurusJ27** · 10-30-2014, 12:22 PM

The title "Rope a Dope" became historical that night.

**BattlingNelson** · 10-31-2014, 08:43 AM

Originally posted by PorterIsFuture

I just realized, why did Ali fight in all these random @ss countries?

Back then dictators paid huge Money to have big fights staged in their country. PR reasons.

**BattlingNelson** · 10-31-2014, 08:47 AM

Originally posted by Lou Cipher

They always try to make it sound like Ali came back from exile rusty and went straight to Frazier. False. He fought Jerry Quarry and Oscar Bonavena before facing Frazier a few months later. I think Quarry first

Always? I think it's the first time I read this error.

Anyway Ali returned against Quarry with minimal preparation so he was very rusty there. Ali being Ali, he always wanted the best available, so he got Quarry who was the no.2 ranked HW. Ali subsequently wrote that he felt very rusty in the fight and that he was deadtired at the time of the stoppage. From the outside Ali looked to be the Ali of old though.