Comments Thread For: Ferdie Pacheco - "The Fight Doctor" - Passes Away at 89

[soul_survivor]

Pecheco was the only one I know of, who told it to Ali straight. When he did not listen, he left, Unlike Dundee and Muhammad and those other guys that worked his corner, who made baseless excuses such as "can't tell a fighter when to quit" or "if I wasn't around, Ali would have gotten hurt worse" etc, while sticking around to take big pay checks.

RIP to a fine man.

[bigjer88]

Nation of Islam and Islam are very different things. The OP was saying that Islam as in the religion, what your talking about is a movement more than anything. And I can completely see him saying that about the Nation of Islam because there were a lot of shady people in the Nation of Islam who tired to influence Ali. Pretty sure some of them even wanted Ali to get rid of Ferdie and Dundee.

I agree. Important distinction.