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Ali was small in comparison to Lewis and Bowe...yeah he was 6'3-6'4 but 220-225 ain't exactly huge.
Ali actually dealt very well with taller men now that IO think of it.

One guy that could have troubled Ali....I'm not kidding....is Klitschko. We all saw Ali struggle with Nortons constant counter jab, albeit that Ali was past peak and a younger Ali would have been far better against Norton, but yeah, I think Wlad give him a torrid time and Ali goes for the KO.

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Why do you keep bringing this up like it holds some kind of merit ?? tell the whole truth Holmes was a mere novice when Ali gave Holmes a black eye, this was in 1972 right ?? and Holmes was still trying out for the Olmypic trials. Where as Ali was a complete pro at the time, why don't you also mention that Holmes got the better of Ali in sparring in 1974 while preparing for Rumble In The Jungle ??
It was three years...Read Boxing Monthly "I learned more from Ali in thoise three years than I doid from anyone else in my life."

As for 1974, Holmes didn't get the better of Ali. He gave Ali a difficult spar, but he never got the better of him.
Like i said earlier im not really bothered how long he sparred with Ali, Monkey always implies about Ali giving Holmes his first shiner implying thats what would happen if they met as pro's. When the fact is Holmes was a novice at the time where as Ali was an experiened professional boxer, and was only slightly past his peak at that time. I think its just unfair to Larry Holmes using a sparring match as an example of how a prime for prime match up would of gone, when the fact is every great boxer has been whooped in sparring.