Quote Originally Posted by Daxx Kahn
I give you CC#1361 for being honest about even Ali and McClellan...I owe you another CC in 24 for somewhat trying to explain the difference between not liking the fighter themselves and it having nothing to do with the fact that it doesn not mean you think they suck as a fighter...Something that people just seem to not be able to differ no matter how many times you say it
CC back man

With Ali I just think he benefits from his era, not specifically the guys he fought but just the era itself...the 1960's-1970's those are some unstable years in EVERYTHING politics, music, war, civil rights, and so on and so on but there is one constant and that's Ali. Ali was both consistently the best but a change in what athletes are, he brought about the Celebrity Athlete and he was given a pulpit and hell he didn't need an invitation or a microphone to speak and be heard he was going to do that anyways but TV helped him out a ton, it got him in homes across the USA......but what he did with his speech was equally bad as it was good. I don't so much care he was touting himself as "the Greatest of All-Time" but to give him that title just on his saying so is moronic and to give him that title just by looking only at what he did is equally as moronic. Also he was against the government and societal standards when it came to civil rights BUT he was merciless in his trash talking to Patterson, Frazier, Foreman, and other fighters....getting hyped for a fight or taking a fighter out of their game mentally is one thing BUT doing what he did in my opinion made him look like a huge hypocrit.


As for Gerald McClellan, he was an exciting fighter no one can deny him that but watching him be brutal in the ring and hearing the stories of him outside the ring you just, well I at least am able to see the primal rage in him and it really was like he wanted to become a pit bull in there. All of that makes for a fun fighter to watch but when you live a life that is never ending violence and death and torture in and outside the ring it makes it hard for me to like him, knowing he was even more vicious outside the ring.