When should Muhammad Ali have retired permanently?

[brocktonblockbust]

It'd be interesting to see how he would have turned out if he had retired in '76 and didn't have that extra 5 years of not only 9 more fights, but 9 more training camps of hard sparring, where he would let guys pound on him to toughen himself up for the fight. Maybe he could pull that shit off as a young man but at 35-40 it must have took years off of him.

youre right he let them pound the PISS out of his kidneys and brain. Tim Witherspoon, Larry Holmes, they would rip shots to his spleen, spleen shots are debilitating because the spleen cannot recover---they would strafe his kidneys for round after round in the gym to "toughen him up" How about break him down? More like it. Bad move.
Bundini Brown once asked him "Champ why are you letting them hit you so much?" and Ali said what you said about toughening himself up.

[Bill Paxtom]

Cassius Clay

Should have retired after getting that 'gift' 10-Round Decision over Doug Jones back
in Madison Square Garden on March 13, 1963.

Any good 'highly regarded' Heavyweight fighter, would have acknowledged that he got
his ass whipped by a Light-Heavyweight.

As well we all know, the 'gifts' kept-a-coming.