A fight I would actually have paid to see.

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A fight I would actually have paid to see.

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I stumbled across this video while on youtube which spurred me in turn to the article.
I am sure most of us on here are old enough to remember Ali, who my father insisted on calling Cassius Clay :roll: . But even my racist old father was rather in awe of Ali. I recall Ali's trash talk, which was unequaled. The black Superman:




Who would have won, Tyson or Ali? https://bleacherreport.com/articles/582 ... really-win

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Either one of them had the ability to win a single match against the other. I'd bet on Ali for two out of three.

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Those tit-for-tat along with back and forth verbal sparring with Howard Cossell were legendary.

Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.


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For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts

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I used to get sick and tired of Ali's verbal barrages and self praise (but nowhere near as much as I got sick of Cosell--I used to watch Monday night football with the sound off and, often, the radio on), but he was a hell of a fighter and I gained a lot of respect for him after he refused the draft, especially after seeing what he lost.

As for Ali/Tyson, as Buster Douglass showed, so long as a fighter could take a couple of Tyson's punches, Tyson couldn't go the distance (and Ali took at least the same amount of punishment at the hands of Norton). I'd take Ali on either a TKO or points; I doubt he'd knock Tyson out.

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