I never realized you were new to boxing....
Congrats on the getting the Ali set good place to start IMO.

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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.
That would be the very game Chuck Wepner.

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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.
I agree as he got older he felt that he still had the reflexes to make his opponents miss but he didn't.


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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?
No need to apologize Althugz I just wish you had been given the chance to see fights for yourself before being told the outcome of some of his figths. Althugs DON'T go looking for a result of a fight before you watch it try to watch them without knowing the end result and also grab a piece of paper and pen and try to score the fights your self. Don't be apologetic or emberrassed about it. It's always refreshing to me to see and read peoples points and views on fights they hadn't seen before. Unlike myself or others here who are biased towards certain fighters.
Coming from you it will fresh and new.


Quote Originally Posted by Althugz
Has anybody in the heavyweights been close to matching Ali's speed?
Alis handspeed was amazing and nis natural skills were bar none. As far as speed goes I would say Tyson was faster with combinations but Alis jab was thunderous....

Keep us updated here on the fights you've watched I wont comment on any of them and will let you make up your own mind on them.