Quote Originally Posted by amat
Ali wasn't unbeatable no one is. But he is the greatest heavyweight of all time. Fought the best, beat the best even when he was past his best.

He had trouble with Cooper early in his career, the split glove gave him an 11 second rest, and who's to say he couldn't have won that fight without the glove and salts?

Jones had just beat Zora Folley and was at his absolute best against a young Ali who was in between big fights. And Ali still won. And he was still 2 or 3 years from his prime.


IMO, he beat Norton twice, and one with a broken jaw.

But, those are minor footnotes of Ali's career. Honestly, that's nitpicking very much ICB. He fought in the strongest era of heavyweight history, gave some of the best fights of all time, and pretty well dominated.
It's not nitpicking at all he got alot of gift decision and yes call me crazy but who knows what would of happened without smelling salts Ali was out of it and that woke him back up and they wernt even allowed so actually he should of been dq

And he struggled against boxers like Norton and Young made Ali look ordinary and should of got nod just say he would of lost 2 decision against Norton which i think he should have and decisions against Shavers and Young would he be greatest hw of all time still ??