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APerno wrote: ↑07 Apr 2018, 09:00

Kalan wrote: ↑07 Apr 2018, 02:09

APerno wrote: ↑06 Apr 2018, 22:47

If Chamberlain truly wanted the fight he would never have made such an impossible demand. Nothing more than a nonsense excuse used to appease Chamberlain fans who want to believe Chamberlain didn't back out of the fight.

Chamberlain made NO demands...

Did you even read the article I posted?

Yeah I read it every time you posted it... Chamberlain wanted Ali and the Heavyweight Championship of the World... That's why the first 2 contracts Chamberlain signed were for the Heavyweight Championship.. However Ali never signed either one. Ali wanted the publicity. He didn't want to take a chance on Wilt smashing him with murderous punches and embarrassing him.. That's why the fight never happened.. If it were going to happen it would have happened in 1967 when Chamberlain was a lot younger and closer to his athletic peak.. Chamberlain knew Ali wasn't serious.

There was more than enough money in Chamberlain-Ali to get Chamberlain a 500,000 dollar guarantee... Everybody in the world wanted to see the fight, but Ali... Chamberlain said, "When Ali signs a contract let me know." Ali never did.. The only fight that made sense was Chamberlain-Ali because they were the world's 2 most famous athletes.

Ali was made to order for Camberlain... Ali had NO body attack... NO inside game... Ali leaned straight back from punches and grabbed like Hell... All of the that made Ali a perfect sitting duck for Chamberlain's speed, power, and 101 inch reach... Ali was bigger and stronger than almost all of his opponents, but Chamberlain made him look like a midget...

Ali was a terrible athlete like Frazier proved to be in the Super Stars competition.. Chamberlain was the greatest athlete in the world according to many... Ali refused to sign the original contract or the fight would have happened.... A mealy mouthed Ali made statements like "I accept your challenge... AFTER I fight a few more contenders IF i beat THEM.".... Here Ali is, making excuses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF57P1uUG0s

Kalan wrote: ↑02 Apr 2018, 06:03

APerno wrote: ↑28 Mar 2018, 17:00

gilgamesh wrote: ↑28 Mar 2018, 13:12

Supposedly Marciano briefly entertained the idea of coming back and facing Johansson. That would've been interesting, and probably would've been a big money fight too.

What if . . .. Patterson would never have gotten to redeem himself, Marciano would have exposed Johansson (as Patterson did the next two times out), winning by KO and convincing subsequent generations that he was in fact the GOAT.

No.... Because Rocky would have been flattened like a pancake... Rocky said he just couldn't train anymore... Rocky wasn't a big guy and he never fought a prime big puncher with a killer right hand in his life.

Marciano actually went into camp trying to get in shape for a possible Johansson fight, but he said he just couldn't do it anymore. Had he gone through with it, he would probably have ended up being 49-1