Does Muhammad Ali owe his boxing style to Chubby Checker?

[Caractacus]

The footwork anyway.
Muhammad Ali won the gold medal in the 1960 Olympics.
check this out this film from from 1961.
(and I aint lying either)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyaxcvHSyZY

[Cutman Scabbers]

Is it just me, or does Chubby Checker seem a lot like Elvis Presley?

[Redback Rasta]

A lot more like Elvis than Ali anyway.

[Cutman Scabbers]

A lot more like Elvis than Ali anyway.

Looks like Elvis went to the body well and had a sharp right cross:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K08Hn-QcyH0

[Caractacus]

well I see more of Ali,
check out the flurry at 1:40 of this clip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCO4sRLzsGk

[Cutman Scabbers]

well I see more of Ali,
check out the flurry at 1:40 of this clip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCO4sRLzsGk

Nice hand speed!

[Cutman Scabbers]

http://www.boxingnews24.com/2011/10/chu ... use-of-me/

[Caractacus]

yeah, i remember reading a newspaper interview years ago by Dick Sadler.
Before he turned pro his backers sent him to Ramona California to train with Archie Moore,
Ali took the train with Dick Sadler and was singing the song "the Twist" so much and off key(according to Sadler)
that Sadler almost wanted to throw himself off of the train en route.

anyway in the meantime check this out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqvUkmnDVkM

[Cutman Scabbers]

yeah, i remember reading a newspaper interview years ago by Dick Sadler.
Before he turned pro his backers sent him to Ramona California to train with Archie Moore,
Ali took the train with Dick Sadler and was singing the song "the Twist" so much and off key(according to Sadler)
that Sadler almost wanted to throw himself off of the train en route.

anyway in the meantime check this out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqvUkmnDVkM

and this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHzh7D2oenk

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http://img.likeness.ru/uploads/users/10 ... 015280.jpg

[Caractacus]

BTW When the Fat Boys with Chubby Checker Twist video first aired on MTV back in 1988,
I thought at first what is Muhammad Ali doing in this video?

They both are only 3 months in age apart.
Chubby Checker born Oct.1941
Muhammad Ali born Jan. 1942.

[BoxBuzz]

BTW When the Fat Boys with Chubby Checker Twist video first aired on MTV back in 1988,
I thought at first what is Muhammad Ali doing in this video?

They both are only 3 months in age apart.
Chubby Checker born Oct.1941
Muhammad Ali born Jan. 1942.

so not separated at birth?

[Caractacus]

uless Chubby was born a month earlier and Ali a month later.
maybe that explain two locations.