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Kalan wrote:Jim Brown was blazing fast... That's why he "knew" he'd beat Chamberlain. He was determined to beat him just for bragging rights.. He never dreamed Wilt would catch him.. But Chamberlain was injury free and running really well.. He had an explosive start, but a great burst at about 30 yards where he'd sift into another gear... which is something he couldn't use on the basketball court because it's too short.. He blew past Brown. Chamberlain's favorite sprint was the 440 or 400 meter.. "You feel like a horse running around the track.. The other sprinters are hating you. You can feel it. There's the back stretch where you scope out the field and start positioning yourself.. You kick it up like crazy coming around the far turn and into the straight, and you blow the field away and thunder past the line as the crowd screams like idiots. The adrenaline rush is unbelievable if you win. Most of the time I did." Did you ever lose? "Let's not talk about that"

misterpunch wrote:apparently wilt could run the 100 metres in 3.8 seconds - he once challenged 1968 olympic sprint champ jim hines to a race over 80 yards and was so convinced he could beat hines that he offered to run in ski's - hines laughed and said "ok lets do it" - the look on Hines's face was priceless as he found wilt waiting at the finish line calmly removing his ski's

Tomasino wrote:

Kalan wrote:Jim Brown was blazing fast... That's why he "knew" he'd beat Chamberlain. He was determined to beat him just for bragging rights.. He never dreamed Wilt would catch him.. But Chamberlain was injury free and running really well.. He had an explosive start, but a great burst at about 30 yards where he'd sift into another gear... which is something he couldn't use on the basketball court because it's too short.. He blew past Brown. Chamberlain's favorite sprint was the 440 or 400 meter.. "You feel like a horse running around the track.. The other sprinters are hating you. You can feel it. There's the back stretch where you scope out the field and start positioning yourself.. You kick it up like crazy coming around the far turn and into the straight, and you blow the field away and thunder past the line as the crowd screams like idiots. The adrenaline rush is unbelievable if you win. Most of the time I did." Did you ever lose? "Let's not talk about that"

Nice fantasy kid.

Kalan wrote:

Tomasino wrote:

Kalan wrote:Jim Brown was blazing fast... That's why he "knew" he'd beat Chamberlain. He was determined to beat him just for bragging rights.. He never dreamed Wilt would catch him.. But Chamberlain was injury free and running really well.. He had an explosive start, but a great burst at about 30 yards where he'd sift into another gear... which is something he couldn't use on the basketball court because it's too short.. He blew past Brown. Chamberlain's favorite sprint was the 440 or 400 meter.. "You feel like a horse running around the track.. The other sprinters are hating you. You can feel it. There's the back stretch where you scope out the field and start positioning yourself.. You kick it up like crazy coming around the far turn and into the straight, and you blow the field away and thunder past the line as the crowd screams like idiots. The adrenaline rush is unbelievable if you win. Most of the time I did." Did you ever lose? "Let's not talk about that"

Nice fantasy kid.

Wilt was the BIG-8 Champion in the 440... (now the 400)... It was his favorite race numb-nuts.

Tomasino wrote:

Kalan wrote:

Tomasino wrote:



Nice fantasy kid.

Wilt was the BIG-8 Champion in the 440... (now the 400)... It was his favorite race numb-nuts.

Why is everything about wilt? Don't you find yourself, disturbing? This is a boxing forum. Who cares what he did on the track, on the court.

He did nothing in the ring.

Kalan wrote:Jim Brown was blazing fast... That's why he "knew" he'd beat Chamberlain. He was determined to beat him just for bragging rights.. He never dreamed Wilt would catch him.. But Chamberlain was injury free and running really well.. He had an explosive start, but a great burst at about 30 yards where he'd sift into another gear... which is something he couldn't use on the basketball court because it's too short.. He blew past Brown. Chamberlain's favorite sprint was the 440 or 400 meter.. "You feel like a horse running around the track.. The other sprinters are hating you. You can feel it. There's the back stretch where you scope out the field and start positioning yourself.. You kick it up like crazy coming around the far turn and into the straight, and you blow the field away and thunder past the line as the crowd screams like idiots. The adrenaline rush is unbelievable if you win. Most of the time I did." Did you ever lose? "Let's not talk about that"

Kalan wrote:It's not about Wilt Chamberlain, it's about Boxing... and Chambelain challenged Ali to a boxing match for the Heavyweight Championship, and Ali milked it for a lot of publicity until Chamberlain and Ali met for a contract signing and Ali refused to sign. So to the degree that boxers can keep World Titles and not defend them against guys who would surely beat them -- that insanity is unique to Boxing.

Kalan wrote:Ali refusing to sign the contract... Or say how long it's going to be before he actually DOES sign the contact... Wilt was getting tired of the Dog & Pony show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF57P1uUG0s