Pulling from an earlier post: Ali or Tyson in their primes.

Sep 16, 2021, 10:29 AM

Who ya got?

First, APM will give Ali the title of GOAT due to his longevity and his impact beyond the ring. And yes, he was great in his prime. Problem is, we didn't see most of his prime. He was sitting out protesting Vietnam.

We did see Tyson's prime. It was brief, but when he had Cus D'Amato in his corner, Tyson was the best there has ever been, IMO. After Cus died, Tyson did OK until he ran into someone who could stand with him and counter his style. He was never the same boxer afterwards and of course he did jail time, etc.

So I'll give Ali the GOAT title, but it is one of those things we can never know. I think early Ali and early Tyson would have been an fascinating match-up. Both elusive, using movement. Tyson with more power. But if Tyson couldn't catch Ali, Ali could wear him down. Then again, all Tyson would have had to do was catch Ali with his uppercut and it'd be lights out.

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I always hated Ali because I was a huge Joe Frazier fan (he was from Beaufort, actually met him when I was a kid). They way he treated Smokin' Joe was unforgivable.

Agree with Joe, Ali was a "scamboogah".
Tyson gets my vote.

"I hated Ali," Frazier admitted to Ali's biographer Thomas Hauser in Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times. "...I hated that man. First two fights, he tried to make me a white man. Then he tried to make me a n--ger. How would you like it if your kids came home from school crying, because everyone was calling their daddy a gorilla?"

If Ali knew he'd gone too far, he showed no sign, doubling down on the ugliness in subsequent television appearances.

"Joe Frazier should give his face to the Wildlife Fund," Ali boasted. "He's so ugly, blind men go the other way. Ugly! Ugly! Ugly! He not only looks bad, you can smell him in another country! What will the people of Manila think? That black brothers are animals. Ignorant. Stupid. Ugly and smelly."

Pulling from an earlier post: Ali or Tyson in their primes.

Ali

heeheehee...dats ludakwissth.

From now on, I'll read all APM posts in Tyson voice

Logan Paul***

Ali all day! He beat Sonny Liston in his prime who ........

OK, I enjoyed When We Were Kings as much as anyone, but

you misspelled "Joe Frazier"

Yeah, that was even worse. Black on Black hate.***

Ali got in his head. that is what he did.

CW42 did this too. He just had an unusual route.***

Rocky Marciano.

My dad and I used to argue who was better...........

Re: My dad and I used to argue who was better...........

MIKE. For the simple fact that

Tyson***

Tyson

Tyson, no doubt.

Ali

Joe Louis greatest Heavyweight.

Michael Jordan

Tyson if he catches him, Ali if not.***

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