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Ali would have been if they have the internet and social media around in his day!!! Never mind the likes of Froch and Groves!!

taffytoon wrote:Ali would have been if they have the internet and social media around in his day!!! Never mind the likes of Froch and Groves!!

No. Get a life ffs.

mickey1975 wrote:

taffytoon wrote:Ali would have been if they have the internet and social media around in his day!!! Never mind the likes of Froch and Groves!!

No. Get a life ffs.

mickey1975 wrote:

taffytoon wrote:Ali would have been if they have the internet and social media around in his day!!! Never mind the likes of Froch and Groves!!

No. Get a life ffs.

That's the spirit mickey way to encourage debate.
Ali is massive was and is taffytoon people found out about his intellect wit and fighting prowess by his great use of what media was available.
You cant imagine Parky or Frost or the modern equivalent wanting to do special's on anyone including Mayweather there is no one in Ali's league worthy of such exposure.

TJ77 wrote:

mickey1975 wrote:

taffytoon wrote:Ali would have been if they have the internet and social media around in his day!!! Never mind the likes of Froch and Groves!!

No. Get a life ffs.

That's the spirit mickey way to encourage debate.
Ali is massive was and is taffytoon people found out about his intellect wit and fighting prowess by his great use of what media was available.
You cant imagine Parky or Frost or the modern equivalent wanting to do special's on anyone including Mayweather there is no one in Ali's league worthy of such exposure.

Sarcasm?

Massive,even then he was the most famous sportsman in the world,imagine him and tyson fury twittering

I thought this was gonna be about Frank Bruno's penis!

Didn't boxing get more coverage back then though anyway? In the national media, etc?

Old Jack J wrote:I thought this was gonna be about Frank Bruno's penis!

I thought it was johnny nelsons but then i realised his tight trousers mean you don't need to imagine anything.

DMA1987 wrote:Didn't boxing get more coverage back then though anyway? In the national media, etc?

Slightly. But this weekends fight will make the back pages of every daily. When boxing's done right, it's big news.

mickey1975 wrote:

DMA1987 wrote:Didn't boxing get more coverage back then though anyway? In the national media, etc?

Slightly. But this weekends fight will make the back pages of every daily. When boxing's done right, it's big news.

I meant as standard though. Everything Ali said was pretty much seen by everybody anyway wasn't it? On a bigger scale.

DMA1987 wrote:

mickey1975 wrote:

DMA1987 wrote:Didn't boxing get more coverage back then though anyway? In the national media, etc?

Slightly. But this weekends fight will make the back pages of every daily. When boxing's done right, it's big news.

I meant as standard though. Everything Ali said was pretty much seen by everybody anyway wasn't it? On a bigger scale.

I was only a kid then so can't comment.

DMA1987 wrote:

mickey1975 wrote:

DMA1987 wrote:Didn't boxing get more coverage back then though anyway? In the national media, etc?

Slightly. But this weekends fight will make the back pages of every daily. When boxing's done right, it's big news.

I meant as standard though. Everything Ali said was pretty much seen by everybody anyway wasn't it? On a bigger scale.

No way do you get bigger than social networking mate

For the people who follow the boxers. I don't really know, I wasn't alive, but from what I've read of boxing in the 80's, it regularly got featured on news, back pages, everything. It got proper football level exposure.
You are right social media is huge - but would the messages get seen more than the big news programmes, newspaper headlines, etc?

Ali would've been as big as Adrian Broner is if twitter was round in his day #WhatCouldHaveBeen

The_Don1 wrote:Ali would've been as big as Adrian Broner is if twitter was round in his day #WhatCouldHaveBeen

Ahhh, Adrian Broner, living proof that Twitter provides arse holes the opportunity to do more than fart.