Quote:
Originally Posted by timpage
You got that right. We'll never see another like him...
|
I never followed boxing as closely as many guys, but I suspect that you're quite right.
I've heard people say that Ali in his prime would have simply embarrassed Mike Tyson. I'll never forget the "rope-a-dope" win over Foreman, who was quite a monster himself, as well as being quite a few inches taller than Tyson. So I don't doubt it.
In the early 1960s, my parents went to Las Vegas on a vacation. Sonny Liston was training in an open area (perhaps in or near one of the resorts or casinos) and putting on a show for the crowd. Dad said that trainers threw medicine balls at his chest and stomach areas hard enough to put an ordinary man in the hospital. He thought the guy was the meanest, toughest-looking dude he could ever imagine, and apparently thought he was likely to be invincible as a fighter.
I remember well that Dad and one of my uncles thought Liston would knock out Ali within a round or two.
So much for that prediction!
The Greatest
