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Does Muhammad Ali owe his boxing style to Chubby Checker?
Posted: 12 Sep 2015, 15:27
by Caractacus
The footwork anyway.
Muhammad Ali won the gold medal in the 1960 Olympics.
check this out this film from from 1961.
(and I aint lying either)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyaxcvHSyZY
Re: Does Muhammad Ali owe his boxing style to Chubby Checker?
Posted: 12 Sep 2015, 20:35
by Cutman Scabbers
Is it just me, or does Chubby Checker seem a lot like Elvis Presley?
Re: Does Muhammad Ali owe his boxing style to Chubby Checker?
Posted: 13 Sep 2015, 04:39
by Redback Rasta
A lot more like Elvis than Ali anyway.
Re: Does Muhammad Ali owe his boxing style to Chubby Checker?
Posted: 26 Sep 2015, 02:48
by Cutman Scabbers
Redback Rasta wrote:A lot more like Elvis than Ali anyway.
Looks like Elvis went to the body well and had a sharp right cross:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K08Hn-QcyH0
Re: Does Muhammad Ali owe his boxing style to Chubby Checker?
Posted: 26 Sep 2015, 11:48
by Caractacus
well I see more of Ali,
check out the flurry at 1:40 of this clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCO4sRLzsGk
Re: Does Muhammad Ali owe his boxing style to Chubby Checker?
Posted: 26 Sep 2015, 22:55
by Cutman Scabbers
Re: Does Muhammad Ali owe his boxing style to Chubby Checker?
Posted: 29 Sep 2015, 03:14
by Cutman Scabbers
Re: Does Muhammad Ali owe his boxing style to Chubby Checker?
Posted: 29 Sep 2015, 14:24
by Caractacus
yeah, i remember reading a newspaper interview years ago by Dick Sadler.
Before he turned pro his backers sent him to Ramona California to train with Archie Moore,
Ali took the train with Dick Sadler and was singing the song "the Twist" so much and off key(according to Sadler)
that Sadler almost wanted to throw himself off of the train en route.
anyway in the meantime check this out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqvUkmnDVkM
Re: Does Muhammad Ali owe his boxing style to Chubby Checker?
Posted: 30 Sep 2015, 04:51
by Cutman Scabbers
Caractacus wrote:yeah, i remember reading a newspaper interview years ago by Dick Sadler.
Before he turned pro his backers sent him to Ramona California to train with Archie Moore,
Ali took the train with Dick Sadler and was singing the song "the Twist" so much and off key(according to Sadler)
that Sadler almost wanted to throw himself off of the train en route.
anyway in the meantime check this out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqvUkmnDVkM
and this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHzh7D2oenk
Re: Does Muhammad Ali owe his boxing style to Chubby Checker?
Posted: 05 Oct 2015, 09:10
by Cutman Scabbers
Re: Does Muhammad Ali owe his boxing style to Chubby Checker?
Posted: 05 Oct 2015, 14:13
by Caractacus
BTW When the Fat Boys with Chubby Checker Twist video first aired on MTV back in 1988,
I thought at first what is Muhammad Ali doing in this video?
They both are only 3 months in age apart.
Chubby Checker born Oct.1941
Muhammad Ali born Jan. 1942.
Re: Does Muhammad Ali owe his boxing style to Chubby Checker?
Posted: 05 Oct 2015, 21:49
by BoxBuzz
Caractacus wrote:BTW When the Fat Boys with Chubby Checker Twist video first aired on MTV back in 1988,
I thought at first what is Muhammad Ali doing in this video?
They both are only 3 months in age apart.
Chubby Checker born Oct.1941
Muhammad Ali born Jan. 1942.
so not separated at birth?
Re: Does Muhammad Ali owe his boxing style to Chubby Checker?
Posted: 06 Oct 2015, 11:46
by Caractacus
uless Chubby was born a month earlier and Ali a month later.
maybe that explain two locations.
