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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7ViqZ1U ... PL&index=4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecu-piso ... A3&index=5

Apologies if this has been posted before. Looks to be rare footage of Ali sparring. Anyone know when this was?

Rocky Balboa wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7ViqZ1U ... PL&index=4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecu-piso ... A3&index=5

Apologies if this has been posted before. Looks to be rare footage of Ali sparring. Anyone know when this was?

Neat- He was practicing his wrestling moves in the first one.

I think its for the second Liston fight. He is sparring with Cody Jones.

ThatOne wrote:
Neat- He was practicing his wrestling moves in the first one.

You just nailed yourself.

But you are too clueless to know what you said.

Ali WAS more of a wrestler than a boxer. The stooge referees let him break every rule with his non-boxing wrestling holds.

Then Ali had the misfortune to fight Jimmy Young, who prepared carefully and negated each and every non-boxing wrestling tactic Ali tried.

Once Ali was stripped of his fouls, he had to use only boxing.

And he wasn't very good at it.

Young gave Ali a boxing lesson to end all boxing lessons.