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elmersalsa wrote: ↑25 Mar 2023, 21:24

Ambling Alp II wrote: ↑24 Mar 2023, 19:29 Well the video you posted clearly shows he got nailed. Do we have to continue with people denying what is right in front of them? Yes, Folley got nailed. Yes, there is climate change. Yes, we have sent men on the moon.

I accepted everything you have said, except for the moon part. To me, the flight to the moon was one of the greatest hoaxes of all-time of human kind. But that's for another topic.

Ambling Alp II wrote: ↑02 Feb 2017, 23:05 Well it was the heavyweight championship of the world when there was only one champion. The challenger was the number one contender. So I am going out on a limb and say it was a big fight.
And no, Folley didn't take a dive.

davie wrote: ↑02 Feb 2017, 17:43 Just watched Ali vs Folley and the stoppage looked slightly suspicious.

He goes down in the 4th, lands flat on his face and lays unmoving for a few seconds, then starts to spring up, looks to his corner for some reason, the gets up at 9.
For a man seemingly unconscious he got up on solid legs and flew at Ali.
Then in the 7th he goes down, again not to a huge blow, lays unmoving again the springs up and flails about and gets counted out
Unusual behaviour, we've seen enough guys out cold to know how it looks when someones out.

Did anyone else think it was suspicious, he never seemed to get tagged hard either time

Caractacus wrote: ↑24 Mar 2023, 13:06

JoeCorrao wrote: ↑18 Aug 2026, 15:06

Ambling Alp II wrote: ↑02 Feb 2017, 23:05 Well it was the heavyweight championship of the world when there was only one champion. The challenger was the number one contender. So I am going out on a limb and say it was a big fight.
And no, Folley didn't take a dive.

Ha. It was a meaningless fight. Ali's last fight before his suspension. Foley was NOT the number 1 contender at the time, he a.name way past his prime who did his job.

BroughtonRulesRefuge wrote: ↑10 Sep 2026, 11:11 - The Folley fight came about after the Cus D'amato trained Wilt Chamberlain emasculated Ali during Howie Cosell's ABC sports program where they were supposed to sign the contract for what was gonna be the largest worldwide fight in history.

Herbert took one look and nixed the deal while Wilt had his pen out trying to give it Ali to sign the contract. Ali wouldn't take it, but he did his Ali shuffle with a punch that Wilt picked up with a feigned backwards shuffle where he comes forward with a shining shoes movement telling Ali he knew how to shine shoes too.

Cus also did a complementary documentary on Ali that provided funds so he could train for the first Joe Frazier fight where Joe put Ali in the Hospital. Cus later showed him exactly how Joe was gonna beat Ali when they had a brief gloveless spar that cut Ali. Cus was purt fair Quick for an old guy.

Wilt had refused to sign his NBA contract, but the NBA came around, so Wilt made the fight contract with Ali a couple more times to become the first million dollar athlete in the world where athletes typically got paid in 10s of Thousand$ died far too young of a heart ailment...R.I.P. for the 2 most public Athletes of their shared era.