No boxer ever was such a pleasure to watch exercising his trade. He truly was amazing as a boxer, and as a human.
I was always a huge Ali fan. I can remember crowding aound the tv watching every fight that would come on and Ali was the king. My father grew up with Chuck Wepner in Bayonne Nj so that fight was a huge one to watch. I remember asking my father why Chuck was so slow, he said its a strategy, lol.
"It's not the mountains ahead to climb that wears you down, it's the pebble in your shoe" "I've wrestled with alligators, I've tussled with a whale, I done handcuffed lightning and throw thunder in jail. You know I'm bad. Just last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick. I'm so mean, I make medicine sick." RIP ALI
Helluva fighter. Even bigger man to take on the criminal federal USAgovt. Butt.....I was always a Smokin' Joe Frazier man. RIP, both champs. I recall watching all of those fights on ABC: many things were a ton different in those days, in a lotta ways. Watched the 8th round of the Zaire fight, the 15th round of Frazier-Ali I & a few others today. Incredible stuff.
Ali was the man. And so was Frazier. Those matches were great. Boxing today is effectively dead but I digress I think if Ali ever surfed he would ride one of those big 16' koa logs that the Duke used to ride.
Corruption, boxers in it just for the paychecks, etc. Became a circus...Tyson biting off Holyfields ear was a low point as well... Don King destroyed boxing.