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No Rematch
Fury isn't going to fight Deontay Wilder again. He'll find every excuse in the book not to make that fight.Comment
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It’s a good move but we are seeing that the tyson fury gift of gab is not on par with the wwe stars who are some of the best shyte talkers on earthComment
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Im skeptical about him v Wilder pt.IIComment
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That's not true completely.
Ali used to have Gorgeous George at his fights even early in his career. He based his persona on George's and George coached him on how to work the audience.
How pro wrestling helped shape Muhammad Ali’s charismatic persona
“Gorgeous George and Cassius Clay met in 1961 and it was the greatest thing that ever happened to Cassius Clay.”
The Associated Press
Professional wrestler Freddy Blassie, right, is shown tangling with boxing legend Muhammad Ali while filming a promotion at an arena in Philadelphia on June 1, 1976.
By Joe Nguyen | jnguyen@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: June 4, 2016 at 5:34 pm | UPDATED: June 4, 2016 at 5:43 pm
Muhammad Ali will live on as one of history’s greatest trash-talkers. He carried a brash confidence, and left memorable quotes that survived the test of time.
It’s little surprise that he learned to channel this skill from the world of pro wrestling.
Early into his professional boxing career, Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) met George Wagner. Wagner was an iconic figure during the ’40s and ’50s as a pro wrestler, rising to fame as “Gorgeous George,” a a flamboyant character with curly blonde locks who wore elaborate robes into the ring.
“Gorgeous George and Cassius Clay met in 1961 and it was the greatest thing that ever happened to Cassius Clay. Gorgeous George gave us the right direction,” Ali’s trainer Angelo Dundee said in an interview with WWE.
In an interview, Ali said he remembered watching Wagner come out to the ring and that inspired him to become more verbose.
“I saw a wrestler once named Gorgeous George and the place was jam packed with people. Cars just lined up for miles. They hated Gorgeous George, they wanted him beat. But they paid $100 for a ringside seat. …
“I got this from Gorgeous George. I said, ‘that was a good idea.’ He’s getting rich. So I start talking. ‘I am the greatest! I cannot be beat! I’m too pretty to be a fighter!’ ”
Athletic, charismatic and blessed with a gift for gab, Ali had the attributes to excel in pro wrestling if he had chosen to pursue it. But he did dabble a bit, serving as a guest referee at WrestleMania I, and battled stars such as Antonio Inoki and Gorilla Monsoon on separate occasions.
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I may have lost my friggin marbles but a part of my being has held this opinion somewhere around the back of my mind. What if it was rigged?
The only that actually stops me from believing it was is that Fury appeared to get almost killed in the 12th round. That couldn’t have been in any script; those hits were hard.
Were it not for Wilder’s KDs I absolutely would agree with the fix because of a fantastic book I read called “Journeyman”. A number of boxers featured within were literally hired for fights just to make a prospect look good so they'd effectively ‘carry’ a fighter using tricks, grabbing and they’d also go out of the way to entertain the crowd with almost exactly the same showmanship as Fury was using in his fight (winking, hands behind back, funny faces, etc.)
The motivation for these journeymen was not to give he prospects too difficult a fight so that other promoters would hire them to fight their prospects without fear of hurting their unbeaten records.
It’s not implausible that Fury Wilder were carrying each other to set the scene for a mega rematch and freeze AJ out like they said they would.
An entertaining conspiracy theory but then again perhaps too fanciful.Comment
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