The title of this thread sounds dumb as fuck and it probably has most of you going 'naaaah, you don't say?? Ali was good?' but bare in mind i'm a fairly new boxing fan..Only been into it about 2 years so I had a lot of catching up to do and a lot of video watching to do as well the more I heard about classic fighters/boxing moments/matches.
I've started watching the Ali career set I ordered and i've started from the tail-end of Ali's career but my god was he good..call me stupid but I didn't even think he was THAT good. I just finished watching a fight he had with some plodding white guy, damm I forget his name. Very durable guy who knocks him down but Ali knocks him out in the 15th. I'm now at round 10 of 'Thriller in Manilla'. Ali had such blistering hand speed for a heavyweight!! This is old Ali as well! I can't wait to see the fights he had when he was in his prime! If I had to pick a fault with him in his old age it was that he didn't protect himself very well when he was flurrying..Frazier has started getting to him with those long hooks.

Sorry, this is obviously old news to nearly all of you but I couldn't help but be amazed! I've never seen a heavyweight with such speed, Frazier was pretty damn fast with his hands himself (More explosive punch speed, not very fast foot speed).
Has anybody in the heavyweights been close to matching Ali's speed?