hhaehre wrote:You just answered your own question but of course it does not change the fact that he lost the biggest fight of his career. As it turns out one can be rated as one of the best of all time and still lose the big one.ThatOne wrote: If he lost the biggest fight of his career why does every boxing historian of the last thirty five years have him rated #1 or #2?
http://coxscorner.tripod.com/heavylists.htm
Maybe it's because he beat three other top ten all time heavyweight greats, seven IBHOF inductees, four Olympic Gold Medalists, won the championship as a 7-1 underdog and won it again as a 3-1 underdog.
As the most prolific pornographer of the twentieth century and possibly this one as well said "Opinions are like assholes.Everybody has one" or if you want to be nice you can replace assholes with noses.
Joe evidently didn't think the first bout was dispositive. That why he agreed to a second and third one.
Muhammad Ali doesn't just belong to us. He belongs to the ages.



