Comments Thread For: Muhammad Ali - Listing The Important and Key Career Fights

[richardt]

Real Americans defend America.

A "real American" is someone who is treated as an equal, given the same opportunities as anyone else and is not turned down for trying to make a living because he is Black! A real American should only feel obligated defend a country that is willing to treat him like ONE OF THEM instead of some UNWANTED TRASH!!!! This country FAILED MISERABLY on a promise that was made that INCLUDED Black people! So don't give me that crap about what REAL AMERICANS do or did back in the 60's and early 70's because it sure as *** didn't include treating Black people as the worthy human beings they are! If Clay/Ali had heard that fighter ships and planes were headed toward America and his and everyone's families were at risk of losing their lives, he damn sure well would have picked up arms and fought against the enemy! That is different than Vietnam! Vietname was WRONG!

[Yaconcha]

im surprised to see nothing about the cleveland "big cat" williams fight, this display was probably the most one sided demolition of an at the time world class opponent, in my mind this was the fight that truly showed how fluent this man was with his genius inside the ring.
speed,agility,range,power were all evident in what was the fight that will remain in my head forever.....especially the double dose of his amazing "ali shuffle", pure magic.

[-PBP-]

Doug Jones. Razor thin back and forth fight where he was tested and prevailed. He doesn't get to Liston if he didn't dig down deep and pull out that W against a rugged top contender.

[fredhopple]

A "real American" is someone who is treated as an equal, given the same opportunities as anyone else and is not turned down for trying to make a living because he is Black! A real American should only feel obligated defend a country that is willing to treat him like ONE OF THEM instead of some UNWANTED TRASH!!!! This country FAILED MISERABLY on a promise that was made that INCLUDED Black people! So don't give me that crap about what REAL AMERICANS do or did back in the 60's and early 70's because it sure as *** didn't include treating Black people as the worthy human beings they are! If Clay/Ali had heard that fighter ships and planes were headed toward America and his and everyone's families were at risk of losing their lives, he damn sure well would have picked up arms and fought against the enemy! That is different than Vietnam! Vietname was WRONG!

It is not hard to distinguish who the real americans are in the USA. Look around as it is clear who matters and who does not matter in the USA. Clay was no hero and should have been sent to prison or exiled. The heroes in America are those kids who died defending the USA in wars. get a grip or leave. the door is open.

[richardt]

It is not hard to distinguish who the real americans are in the USA. Look around as it is clear who matters and who does not matter in the USA. Clay was no hero and should have been sent to prison or exiled. The heroes in America are those kids who died defending the USA in wars. get a grip or leave. the door is open.

The REAL Americans are people who ACCEPT others for who they are, NOT treat them worse than second class citizens and expect them to fight A WRONG WAR for a country that treats them like SHT on the back of their shoe!!! This was NOT World Ward 2, this was a WRONG WAR that even the architects of that war admitted was WRONG!!!

[baby ballin]

Who was this dude? An outspoken negro who had the money and talent to box and died just like all of us!! The greatest? LOL!! My morning crap after a big breakfast is bigger than Ali!!

[bojangles1987]

His biggest win = Foreman, right?

Foreman was an undefeated KO machine 40–0 (37 KOs) and had destroyed both Frazier and Ken Norton leading up to that fight. Ali was a huge underdog and nobody really gave him a chance and people thought he was going to get killed.

I was born in 1988 so I was not around when Ali was a fighter but is anyone old enough to remember that fight? I can imagine watching Ali knock out the unstoppable Foreman like that in the 8th round must've been amazing.

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Not just Ali's best win, but arguably the best win in boxing history.

[New England]

No to rain on your parade cause I 100% respect ALI, but pacquaio vs Oscar and Margarito.

margarito was a 3/1 dog against pacquiao.