Muhammad Ali-stripped 1976 : Your thoughts ?

[Ambling Alp II]

What we really need is a mod to steer us back to the original topic.

Most of us (myself included) are guilty of gradually moving off in a different direction as the conversation evolves. Sort of like actual conversation where people talk to each other. Eventually we gradually start talking about something else.
However, we should be able to stay on topic better here.

It is particularly frustrating when a thread gets "hijacked" early on. That isn't fair to the person who started the thread.

[Caractacus]

(is that Rodney Bobick was last person in the ring there ?)


i remember watching this fight live on TV too.
May.27.1976 on NBC-TV.
It was a Monday Evening and began at 9 pm (EST)
Duane Bobick vrs Bunny Johnson was the preliminary
it was Muhammad Ali third title defense in just 94 days !
BTW
this was Ali's final victory by "Knock-out".

[Caractacus]

BTW anyone know if Ali vrs Inoki was re-played on
any of the week-end Sports-Shows in June 1976 ?
( i.e NBC,CBS or ABC)
i just remember reading the sports page the next day
and there was a photo of an Ugly spectable.
inoki on the ground and Ali reaching out for him.
BTW i think the best exchange of the 'fight" was
at about 10;50 of this clip.

[Caractacus]

Don't know about you but I still had my Mego Muhammad Ali action-figure that I got in 1976
clear up to about 2010,

[Caractacus]

June.1.1976

The Build Up

[Caractacus]

I use to read the Karate magazines at the newsstand during the "Kung-Fu" craze in the USA and world
( which started around 1972),
and I remember there was an article in a Karate magazine about Muhammad Ali dabbling in Karate
as far back as 1973, at least trying to learn some new punching techniques from it anyway.
unfortanetly I think the dude he was training under was some kind of BS artist claiming to be
"The Deadliest Man in the World"
Ali didnt learn any true new punching techniques until he studied with Jhoon Rhee
in 1976 just before the Inoki bout.

[Caractacus]

[Caractacus]

Check this out, some real interesting stories.

[goose 5]

Great video ! Thanks for posting it. About 30 years ago, a guy I knew who was heavily involved in Karate and Jiu Jitsu started training in Dillman's system and he told me this Dillman is a monster and has the best fighting system he ever saw. It involved pressure points from what I remember; however, there are now videos available calling this guy a fraud and exposing the pressure point system that he teaches.

[Caractacus]

it doesn't look fake to me, his partner looked to be in real distress after he barley tapped him here.


Be sure to check out the interview with George Dillman
over at the Tribute to Bruce Lee thread , over at the "Off Topic" forum

[goose 5]

From other videos it seems Dillman claims he can knock people out without actually touching or hitting the pressure points-simply directing his "chi" at them.

[Caractacus]

well if any one could project their "Chi"in this world
I think it would be a 12th degree Black Belt.
I know sometimes over the years,
You know, every once in a while
I myself will get this sort of funny feeling in me,
over the years,
and when I go back to my apartment
and switch on the lights feeling that way ,
the lights bulb goes out !

[Caractacus]

I remember watching this live on TV,
and for years afterwards the thing that stuck out as to how bad Dunn looked,
but in recent years, its how good Ali looked in doing it.
Ali used the "Accu-Punch" in it.

[Ambling Alp II]

My favorite part came after one of the times Dunn got knocked down. He wasn't really hurt and got up immediately. Ali was still standing by him. Dunn actually tried to throw a behind the back punch as he was getting up!

[Caractacus]

Sheeyatt, that other clip excluded the knock-downs
check out the 'Pie-in-the-face" punch that Dunn gives to Ali at 2;40 of this clip LOL

[Caractacus]

June-4-1976 (press conference at Yankee Stadium- 3 weeks before the fight with Inoki )


August-8-1976

[Caractacus]

The W.B.C. awarded Ali its fighter of the year award for 1975. However, they revoked the award in June, 1976 because Ali brought boxing into disrepute with his bout against Antonio Inoki.

I never knew this and am curious about the board's thoughts ?

My source is the New York Daily News June 28, 1976.

did they withdraw the award just before the Inoki match
or just days after ?
The Muhammad Ali vrs Ken Norton fight was originally scheduled for
July.4.1976 at Yankee Stadium.
I think the reason it may have been re-scheduled for September was because
of the injury's inflicked on Ali's legs in the Inoki Match.
a postponement lof a big event like that would have caused a lot of people to loose a lot of money.

[Caractacus]

Tuesday Evening-September-28-1976

[Caractacus]

I remember reading (somewhere) that just after his bout with Inoki,
instead of having his legs attended to,(as Angelo Dundee recommened)
Instead Ali went on a Boxing exhibition in the Orient
that he had commited to previously,
then after that stayed in a hospital in California for his legs.

[Caractacus]

June.10.1976-Chicago Illinois

[Caractacus]

yeah, 1976 was the year Ali should have retered from the ring.
and his movie THE GREATEST came out.
You can see clearly just about everything going down the slide in the Ali in 1977 thread.
( which I will bump up )

[jaouad]

Back then the boxing world was more conservative and looked down upon exhibitions between boxers and fighters from different martial arts. Can’t compare it to now with the sh1t load of celeb exhibitions that we have now.

[DrDuke]

Someone here definitely loves to talk with himself. This board is getting more and more surreal.

[HomicideHenry]

Back then the boxing world was more conservative and looked down upon exhibitions between boxers and fighters from different martial arts. Can’t compare it to now with the sh1t load of celeb exhibitions that we have now.

Erm.... it happened all the time back then. Archie Moore fought wrestlers in boxing matches, etc. Then again boxers fought more often back then so sideline skirmishes weren't seen too badly because the boxers outweighed it all with hyperactivity.

[gilgamesh]

My thoughts of Ali being stripped in 1976?

It made no difference whatsoever.