George Chuvalo said that Cleveland Williams was shot two-three weeks prior to this fight and that's why he couldn't beat him, he just wasn't the same Cleveland. Obviously as a huge Ali fan I still think he would've outclassed him and outboxed him, but it definitely makes fights more exciting when you know the dirty details ya know haha
@RandomLevitation Actually it was months prior to this fight not weeks. Williams was certainly not the same after he got shot but if he was in the ring then obviously he was healthy. Either way Williams would still have no chance. Williams was a stalker with freakish power and he pretty much fought Ali the same way he fought in his career and it got him nowhere, Ali was simply too good from 64-67. Out of his opponents in that span, no one ever won on any scorecard against him.
I like how Ali gets backed up against the ropes and it looks like Williams is going to tear him apart. Instead Ali just does the shuffle and doges the attack even while he's up against the ropes, totally insane.. total insult to Williams's abilities. That psychologically devestates a fighter to get owned like that.
Some people think middleweights can beat heavyweights? Tyson was as ponderous as Liston or Foreman. Ali could've kept clear of him as easily as he does here against Williams, who is expending energy simply keeping track of Ali in this fight. This bout shows precisely how he was able to beat fighters who were bigger and more powerful than him: he simply threw more jabs, avoided 99% of their big shots and landed his when he needed to.Ali could've beaten anyone on points, he didn't need to KO them.
Williams was pretty tough (floored 4 times but still wasn't knocked out), but he just couldn't hit Ali more than a few times each round. This fight is a mini-masterclass on why Ali is and probably will always be the greatest of all time.
Ali was not only the greatest boxer of all time he was the greatest sports entertainer and personality of all time. More than 30 years after his last fight there is no one since who has even come close to matching his skill set of size, speed and power. From 1964-67 he was unbeatable. He really made a mockery of his opponents. They looked like amateurs compared to him. The Williams fight was PERFECTION.
Notice the look on Ali´s face at the end when he looks back to William´s coner. Ali was never a bad person, in fact he was a good man that could easily build friendship with any man he fought in the rings. Back in the days, when he was a kid, people thought he was bad due the way he ran his mouth, but that was nothing but a new man´s generation, it was pure human evolution - it happens to the Universe too as they say. Ali was the first of his kind. He was fun, magic, pure, smart, lucky and great
The reason Ali is the best Sports Athlete Ever is because his fighting style can translate in any era of Boxing history. When you ahve his abilitie to move and his defense and his jab, he can beat down anyone in todays boxing, anyone is his era and anyone before him. Ali is the best athlete ever. Period.
this was his best fight hands down. this was when he started going down his body fucking up on him. you cant tell by his fights but u just know this is his best fight not one mistake. he danced like no other fight in this fight. his speed accuracy. amazing he'd of destroyed tyson if tyson was in that ring with him.
@jsharps1000 Sorry to tell you this pal but honestly Tyson would beat the shit out of Ali ANY DAY. Ali was good at dancing, weak punches. Tyson in my opinion is a much better stonger boxer; although of course Ali DID float like a butterfly and he's a very classy boxer. I'm also sorry to say that even though the man was a good boxer I am not fond of HIM.
go watch the rumble in the jungle think about it for alittle bit then come back with a good arguement. cause that fight there proves he can take a hit and block.ali wasn't nowhere near his prime in that fight so. i mean give it a thought wtf would happen to foreman if ali was in his prime. then just picture tyson as foreman and ali as ali in his prime knocking out tyson.
@jsharps1000 Lol You must be joking. Tyson, Foreman, Frazier, and Holyfeild were all better than Ali. Ali was a Dancer and only a Dancer. Sure he could take a hit but could he really throw one? Haha I train with Bryon Mackie (the canadian champ) and even HE could kick the shit out of Ali.
He liked to RUN AWAY. I'll be honest I am also a dancer but not like that, Ali throws about 5 punches a round while I throw about 500.
@boxingsinger your honestly sayin a canadian light middleweight boxer who lost 14 of his 42 bouts would beat the greatest fighter of all time...who is was may i add, a HEAVYWEIGHT!! your livin in cloud cuckoo land and dont deserve to comment on this forum cause you obviously dont have a clue!!
@boxingsinger ali threw a lot more than five shots a round! and if you throw 500 a round you must be some man!! burnt out after 2 rounds! good man yourself!!!
@boxingsinger are u ignorant? ali already beat foreman once out of his prime. tyson isn't smart enough for ali he'd be done for he'd strain himself from all the running ali is doing around him. u cant get a hard enough hit off to knockout or even put a champ down when they are running around you. ali has never been knockout so u say he'd get destroyed gtfo here. ali would destory him in the either 12 round tko or 13th.
what made ali a great fighter is he had heart and could fight and was one if not the smartest man in boxing. you know how he talked alot of shit? he got in peoples heads. when your mad you tend to fuck up alot which i believe idk about other people but i believe ali was good at adapting to peoples styles. obviously you have no respect for boxers and dont know much about boxers. i bet if u stepped in the ring you wouldn't of made it that first round with ali.
@boxingsinger yeah that u have no idea about boxing and actually ur the asshole here bro. grow up obviously u dont know shit about muhammad ali so go figure out wtf ur talking about.
@jsharps1000 Just to clear this up with you I train with Bryon Mackie, who trained Logan Cotton McGuiness. I am only aloud to fight boys because its not fair to put me up against the girls.
My Headgear is covered in my brothers blood. Now I'm no professional but I'm not a dumbass either. All I am saying is that Ali wasn't as good as he or anybody else thought.
Weak but Classy
People were intimidated by him from what they were lead to beleive he was which in fact he wasn't.
This is really artistic. His speed and power come together in this fight. Never has he danced like this before, nor has he danced like this ever again. In previous fights he was either fast or strong. Here he was sharp and both. Definetly unbeatable. No heavyweight in the history of boxing or ever likely in the future, would have defeated this Muhammad Ali. Simply artistic.
@51iohC Ali was defending his title here (listen to the announcer at 7:45). He changed his name right after he took the title from Sonny Liston and was known by Ali afterwards. Some announcers, like this one, still refused to call him Ali and considered him, all the followers of the nation of Islam, and other civil rights protesters to be traitors to the United States. I'm sure you know all this but the announcer creates this confusion by calling him Clay as he was known before his title.
He hits you as often as he wants, wherever he wants, however hard he wants to. You throw your fastest jab and he is gone before your arm is even straight. I cant even imagine how frustrating it would have been to fight Ali. Long live the greatest
why does the commentator keep referring to the champ as clay when he was actually ali at this point of time.lucky for the cunt commentator not to be inside the ring or else the champ wud whup is atrocious ass.real bad.
Yes unfortunately williams had been shot by a cop and was never the same boxer, he did have his title shots before (againt liston) and after the shooting. Ali was apparently very worried that he might hurt him so jerry izenberg advised him to try and end it quickly, which ali did. Alimnever liked injuring a fellow boxer (except terrel). You can see that against lyle: could have knocked him out but instead kept on pausing to have the ref stop. Same against foreman, when foreman is going down ali
@om82lndn That showed his class. Today you have these moron fighters, punching a guy who is going down, rabbit punching and trying to kill somebody. Ali just wanted to win, never hurt anybody.. Real class.
@michaelyouth , ali is a gentleman. most of the boxers are morons unfortunately.that's why he was the people's champ. check out the video where he saves a veteran who was about to commit suicide. Ali is bigger than boxing. when norton had his terrible accident, who do you think went to see him first? yes you betcha.
@dnttalktomeh Going only on wikipedia, he did apparently have a significant chunk of his small intestine removed after he was shot by a policeman a year or so before the fight. If you look at his left leg above the knee you can see that it's a bit smaller than his right, which apparently was also due to him having been shot. Boxrec doesn't have anything about it, unfortunately. I wouldn't doubt it though.
Ali's ability to punch in all positions (including when walking back) is second to none. Showed it also again foreman where he was at times essentially punching in the same space as a phone box
Alis left jab is inspirational , i also love how he dances about the ring with his gaurd down and relies on quick reactions and reflexes to dodge his opponents.
Man ali was not just pretty he was poetry in motion, the man was beautifully built for boxing !!! big but nimble and he moved with the grace of a cat!! I doubt if we will see another boxer with such a talent.............If he was white they would have built cities in his honor and if he was asian they would said he was a god!! But to us blacks he was just a smooth operator.
By the time it was possible for a rematch between Foreman and Ali, the year was 1977-78'ish...Ali was already showing mild symptoms of Parkinson's and aging as he was now 35-36 years old. Foreman might have won a 15 rd decision. (remember Foreman quit boxing for 2 years and slipped into a terrible depression the night he lost to Ali, so a rematch right away wasn't possible.)
Thank you joshmar11 for this PRICELESS hi-def footage! So exciting to see a master at work! The Greatest of All Time, Ali was so artistic but not only that, never has there ever been a heavyweight fighter who shows such finesse. Ali wasn't just a great boxer, he was a very smart
@ doerockstar @ doerockstar: ow it may was a easy fight but what do u say about alis fight against foreman n frazier or sonny liston? one of the best fighters and had one of the hardest punch in the sport lol get lost f-k haters
Muhammad Ali is probably the greatest champion in history of boxing, majical blend of speed, strengh, grace and courage. Ali transcend boxing, transcend sport, he even transcend national borders. he represent the best of any of us. the most talented , the most fun. the most recognizable person in world.
@randomaznpopper That's true. Technically, Ali would be a horrible choice for a boxer to model his style on, but I think that's why there will never be another boxer like him. One of a kind gem.
@BBNBoss I was watching Ali v. Doug Jones today and the announcer said "one flaw of Clay is that he keeps his hands down which might get him into trouble". I said to the TV out loud, "Or might make him the greatest fighter ever!" That was Ali's 18th fight so its understandable how they thought he would just fade away like so many others. Little did this guy know that he was watching the greatest ever!
@tedsuplex i dont think you can say he ducked foreman beacause he didnt give him a rematch.......he beat him....plain and simple.......not everybody gets a rematch.....life is tough
@destroyxeverything Foreman got beat with ease and finesse..He would have lost again in a rematch..And Foreman knows this..You can tell he knows that just by the way he talks about Ali
@destroyxeverything go and ready forman book called god in my corner, where forman himself said that ali told him on the phone to fight ken norton and if he win he would give him rematch, but forman said to ali that he is becoming preacher yada yada go read it , and tell me what you think
@bigfatAMERCANbastard LMAO!!! your so stupid. You have proven my superiority with my post. You can't even understand anything I say because it is beyond you. Good show sir. I accept your admission of defeat. -- Hit me up for round two whenever you'd like. HAHAHA!!!!!!
@VikingII I love boxing videos, but the comments are better. I've read your back & forth. seriously dude, you're like Clevelend Williams over here. your lumbering around clumsily, bravely trying to defend yourself but your just making yourself a target. that big bastard keeps getting in stinging jabs.
@yoursuchagoodguy You don't understand. He has no "Stinging jabs." He has no point at all. His entire "argument," a name it barely deserves, is based off of a logical fallacy. Fallacy of accident or sweeping generalization. I can't argue with anybody, especially online, because they don't understand the mechanics of a point or logic. I tried explaining, then I trolled him for a little bit, and he keeps bringing irrelevant information into the mix. So fuck it, and fuck him. He is a retard.
@yoursuchagoodguy He has NO idea how to punctuate a quotation, does that mean he has no useful information or the point to his sentences are void and useless? No. Does that mean he is a complete idiot? No.--He believes the ability to spot an error in ones grammar or syntax means that are uneducated, illiterate, and stupid in all aspects of life; regardless of whether or not it is an error or a legitimate misunderstanding of the language.
@yoursuchagoodguy My point is he is a troll, and that is it. He is an internet troll; useless. All he does is hop on here, criticize people by checking their grammar to feel superior, because he is a lowlife in real life. He has no power in any sense, and it makes him feel powerful. He is just a piece of shit searching for a way to feel better about himself by tearing others down, rather than building himself up.
@VikingII alright already I get your point. I wasn't trying to make you mad I was trying to offer a little good natured help. please don't take it out on me sorry I brought it up. peace
@bigfatAMERCANbastard The problem is, you try to base your initial argument that I have no idea about boxing simply because I lift weights. Unfortunately for you, running my sentences through a grammar checker, is irrelevant information. No matter how much you scurry through the grammar checker like an insecure rat piece of shit, it won't help you prove your point. It is a fallacy of logic. They are irrelevant connections based off of a fallacy of accident or sweeping generalization. Good luck.
@bigfatAMERCANbastard Still you prove me correct. AGAIN, you are so stupid. 1) You still don't understand the science. 2) learn to use punctuation properly.
@bigfatAMERCANbastard You don't understand, it is not a singular event. I need no help with it; apparently you do.
Oh yeah, I suppose it is time for me to tell you that your entire "argument" which I have mapped out entirely the moment I saw your very first idiotic post is based on nothing, and it is a delusion in every aspect of the science. It is beyond your comprehension; you will never understand the intricacies of this logic. Therefore, I shall not explain it to you. Good luck again.
Oh yeah, your punctuation is all fucked up; good luck figuring it out. I don't expect you to figure it out though, you're a fat dumb bastard after all.
@bigfatAMERCANbastard It's called your own medicine dip shit, learn to read, and learn to write. Good luck on your journeys of idiot. You STILL lack the capacity to formulate a point or sentences more complicated than the most basic sentence structure; you are truly a dumb piece of shit.
@bigfatAMERCANbastard You have useless trolling powers, I can give you a taste of your own fat fuck medicine. worthless scum. Wait no, let me rephrase this whole thing.---
You have useless trolling powers.
I can give you a taste of your own medicine: Fat fuck 100mg.
It's a common mistake to chop sentences into little bits to avoid mistakes, however, it shows the reader that the writer is scared to write complex sentences due to their limited understanding of the English language.
@bigfatAMERCANbastard hahahaha, yes, that is what I said. You have no point again. You just proved me right, AGAIN! Keep it coming dumbass. I'll be waiting for something intelligent. strike 5 idiot.
"That must be where your head is at." Where is my head? My head is on my shoulders, that makes no sense. your reference to the location of my head is nonsensical and ridiculous slang that proves you have no grasp of the English language. You sir, are a dumb nigger that must have learned language as a slave listening the slots of the barn as your mother was willfully "raped" on a farm.
@bigfatAMERCANbastard You lack the foundations of Logic and the philosophy of truth to ever establish an argument worth shit. You can spend the rest of your short cholesterol infested life trying to be better than me in any aspect, and it will never work. You are the definition of shit. Your genes of down syndrome will be passed from generation to generation, none of your children, regardless of how advanced the human race becomes, will EVER surpass my intellectual or physical prowess.
@bigfatAMERCANbastard You will always be a fat fuck, useless piece of rat jealous ego-broken, scum shit, that perilously scours the depths of the internet and thesaurus in an attempt to find some sort of grammatical or syntactical miscue in an attempt to stroke your 1 inch ego; but it's okay, because you will know deep down inside your a worthless piece of retarded shit.
You're probably eating right now to comfort yourself and beating off swearing to yourself that you are so smart. Trust me, you're a dumbass. My mental prowess is far beyond anything you will ever achieve. It doesn't matter how much time you spend in any school anywhere, how much you lie to yourself, no matter what focus drugs you take, you will ALWAYS be dumber than I am.
@bigfatAMERCANbastard Hey look a typo!!! I typed 1000 instead of 100*, that makes my point moot and irrelevant. Oh hey, LMAO, that isn't a word! That is an acronym and it isn't presented accurately, that is another miscue! OH shit, I guess all the information provided is now useless and it proves I must have down syndrome! Oh wait, no it doesn't, I'm not a useless fat fuck with no point. Mistakes are irrelevant, just like all of your comments.
@bigfatAMERCANbastard You point is completely useless. you take off of out of context, I type over 1000wmp It is also a common mistake to type It's instead of its when the meaning is understood. You are a complete fool. You have no understanding of logic or truth. You are both fat and stupid. You are nothing at all. You are so scared because you are a fat piece of shit, and I am physical and mental perfection. It would pain me as well if I knew I was worthless.
@bigfatAMERCANbastard lmao, You are obviously an idiot that doesn't understand anything at all. You can base something off of something. It is not a misunderstanding. You are an idiot troll with no point. You still refuse to display anything at all in the way of a point, because you are beneath me intellectually. You prove it yourself. Each post you continue to show more and more ignorance and stupidity. You have no understanding of logic.
@bigfatAMERCANbastard I mean seriously, lets look at all of your posts, you just repeat several adjectives that suggest or directly claim I am an idiot or stupid based off of lifting weights, and accidentally saying it's instead of its. Childish at best. Try providing an actual argument or point. You have none, I could troll you just as you are trolling me, but it is intellectually beneath me. I challenge you to provide any sort logical argument for anything.
@bigfatAMERCANbastard Ha!,your inferiority complex is hilarious. You are attempting to extrapolate a simple grammatical error into something that it is not, because you have no content to provide. Your entire "argument," if it can even be called that, is based off of insults and irrelevancies. You have no point or proof of anything. My point stands, regardless of the mistake of Its and It's. You have no reliable retort, however, so you must rely on slander, the tool of the loser in an argument.
@bigfatAMERCANbastard Thats a Joke; "gyming" isn't a word...and it's not necessarily homosexual to dangle on someone's pubic hair. Your constant reference to "beefcake" and so on is cognitive dissonance at it's best. You are forced to believe that you possess an intellectual superiority over people in better shape than you to comfort your weak ego; the truth is that you are both fat and stupid. If i possess both traits, intellect and physical, you would be useless. Which I do, so you are.
@VikingII The dudes gotta 82" reach, and was really REALLY fast. He was keeping the man out of his reach and walking circles around him... Footwork is important in the ring. And Ali was the greatest. His fight style was unusual, but not retarded by any means. The man knew what he was doing.
Ali blows dong. He is only promoted so heavily because of the black worship of the nation and their infinite megalomania and arrogance. He is not the greatest of all time.
George Chuvalo said that Cleveland Williams was shot two-three weeks prior to this fight and that's why he couldn't beat him, he just wasn't the same Cleveland. Obviously as a huge Ali fan I still think he would've outclassed him and outboxed him, but it definitely makes fights more exciting when you know the dirty details ya know haha
RandomLevitation 1 day ago
@RandomLevitation Actually it was months prior to this fight not weeks. Williams was certainly not the same after he got shot but if he was in the ring then obviously he was healthy. Either way Williams would still have no chance. Williams was a stalker with freakish power and he pretty much fought Ali the same way he fought in his career and it got him nowhere, Ali was simply too good from 64-67. Out of his opponents in that span, no one ever won on any scorecard against him.
vladiator100 13 hours ago
Not a scratch on Ali... Cleveland's hands cant hit what his eyes cant see!!
LukeM9583 5 days ago
GOD DEAM SHIT !!! AMAZING FOOTWORK FOR HEAVYWEIGHT
philvez123 6 days ago
Muhammad Ali is an amazing fighter but I look upto him BUT...
You guys do know that Cleveland Williams shouldn't have even been boxing in the state he
was in during this fight right? This fight was after he had been shot by a cop and barely survived and had permanent nerve damage.
xstarstarx 1 week ago
@xstarstarx he had a fight before ali after getting shot. there for he was okay.
jsharps1000 5 days ago
Fight should have definetly been stopped after the second round.
famlaya 1 week ago
Ali toys with the Klitsckos.
Chex2331 1 week ago
beautifully fought
jaydeepoeticmental 1 week ago
I like how Ali gets backed up against the ropes and it looks like Williams is going to tear him apart. Instead Ali just does the shuffle and doges the attack even while he's up against the ropes, totally insane.. total insult to Williams's abilities. That psychologically devestates a fighter to get owned like that.
IASOU2005 1 week ago
3 rounds and Williams didn't connect one punch????
johnlennon1970 1 week ago
Ali in his prime!....in my opinion Ali best fight! flawless!
johnlennon1970 1 week ago
Some people think middleweights can beat heavyweights? Tyson was as ponderous as Liston or Foreman. Ali could've kept clear of him as easily as he does here against Williams, who is expending energy simply keeping track of Ali in this fight. This bout shows precisely how he was able to beat fighters who were bigger and more powerful than him: he simply threw more jabs, avoided 99% of their big shots and landed his when he needed to.Ali could've beaten anyone on points, he didn't need to KO them.
KRSsven 1 week ago
@KRSsven ty tyvm
jsharps1000 5 days ago
Williams was pretty tough (floored 4 times but still wasn't knocked out), but he just couldn't hit Ali more than a few times each round. This fight is a mini-masterclass on why Ali is and probably will always be the greatest of all time.
KRSsven 1 week ago
@KRSsven Ali was playing with him, basically just going through the motions! all boxers should watch this video, and watch the genius at work :)
johnlennon1970 1 week ago
Coolest gaurd ever!
aleksmovie14 1 week ago
6:42 Ali's legendary pre-strike.
pedr0te 2 weeks ago
Thanks Russ Anber.
dedricthere 2 weeks ago
Happy birthday champ, 70 years old. I hope you go to live one hundred years...
You were the greatest of all time
Forever in my heart 24/7
Greetings and love from The Netherlands
MagicMushroom1971 2 weeks ago
Ali was not only the greatest boxer of all time he was the greatest sports entertainer and personality of all time. More than 30 years after his last fight there is no one since who has even come close to matching his skill set of size, speed and power. From 1964-67 he was unbeatable. He really made a mockery of his opponents. They looked like amateurs compared to him. The Williams fight was PERFECTION.
rillster1 2 weeks ago
like if you came to see this fight because of CNN guy!
chanzerott 2 weeks ago 2
Happy 70th Birthday Muhammad!
ElizabethR1558 2 weeks ago
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johnlennon1970 1 week ago
Happy birthday Ali
1998metalhead1 2 weeks ago
Love it
8ceWonder 2 weeks ago
This is a great video just by the basis of the quality of sports announcing and how it is now a very lost art!
6ft7inHIBread 2 weeks ago
5:23 like a lightning from a clear sky
rufaelito 2 weeks ago
Notice the look on Ali´s face at the end when he looks back to William´s coner. Ali was never a bad person, in fact he was a good man that could easily build friendship with any man he fought in the rings. Back in the days, when he was a kid, people thought he was bad due the way he ran his mouth, but that was nothing but a new man´s generation, it was pure human evolution - it happens to the Universe too as they say. Ali was the first of his kind. He was fun, magic, pure, smart, lucky and great
ELmaggo10 2 weeks ago
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OscarAli1337 3 weeks ago
The reason Ali is the best Sports Athlete Ever is because his fighting style can translate in any era of Boxing history. When you ahve his abilitie to move and his defense and his jab, he can beat down anyone in todays boxing, anyone is his era and anyone before him. Ali is the best athlete ever. Period.
DementedXMusic 3 weeks ago
this was his best fight hands down. this was when he started going down his body fucking up on him. you cant tell by his fights but u just know this is his best fight not one mistake. he danced like no other fight in this fight. his speed accuracy. amazing he'd of destroyed tyson if tyson was in that ring with him.
jsharps1000 3 weeks ago
@jsharps1000 Sorry to tell you this pal but honestly Tyson would beat the shit out of Ali ANY DAY. Ali was good at dancing, weak punches. Tyson in my opinion is a much better stonger boxer; although of course Ali DID float like a butterfly and he's a very classy boxer. I'm also sorry to say that even though the man was a good boxer I am not fond of HIM.
boxingsinger 2 weeks ago
go watch the rumble in the jungle think about it for alittle bit then come back with a good arguement. cause that fight there proves he can take a hit and block.ali wasn't nowhere near his prime in that fight so. i mean give it a thought wtf would happen to foreman if ali was in his prime. then just picture tyson as foreman and ali as ali in his prime knocking out tyson.
jsharps1000 2 weeks ago
@jsharps1000 Lol You must be joking. Tyson, Foreman, Frazier, and Holyfeild were all better than Ali. Ali was a Dancer and only a Dancer. Sure he could take a hit but could he really throw one? Haha I train with Bryon Mackie (the canadian champ) and even HE could kick the shit out of Ali.
He liked to RUN AWAY. I'll be honest I am also a dancer but not like that, Ali throws about 5 punches a round while I throw about 500.
He floats like a bee and stings like a butterfly.
boxingsinger 2 weeks ago
@boxingsinger your honestly sayin a canadian light middleweight boxer who lost 14 of his 42 bouts would beat the greatest fighter of all time...who is was may i add, a HEAVYWEIGHT!! your livin in cloud cuckoo land and dont deserve to comment on this forum cause you obviously dont have a clue!!
jimpotmotown 2 weeks ago
@boxingsinger ali threw a lot more than five shots a round! and if you throw 500 a round you must be some man!! burnt out after 2 rounds! good man yourself!!!
jimpotmotown 2 weeks ago
@boxingsinger are u ignorant? ali already beat foreman once out of his prime. tyson isn't smart enough for ali he'd be done for he'd strain himself from all the running ali is doing around him. u cant get a hard enough hit off to knockout or even put a champ down when they are running around you. ali has never been knockout so u say he'd get destroyed gtfo here. ali would destory him in the either 12 round tko or 13th.
jsharps1000 2 weeks ago
what made ali a great fighter is he had heart and could fight and was one if not the smartest man in boxing. you know how he talked alot of shit? he got in peoples heads. when your mad you tend to fuck up alot which i believe idk about other people but i believe ali was good at adapting to peoples styles. obviously you have no respect for boxers and dont know much about boxers. i bet if u stepped in the ring you wouldn't of made it that first round with ali.
jsharps1000 2 weeks ago
@jsharps1000 I beleive in fact that Ali was a complete asshole.
I have better things to do than to argue with you, hopefully you're
not as dim witted as you sound.
I have made my point.
Good Day.
boxingsinger 2 weeks ago
@boxingsinger yeah that u have no idea about boxing and actually ur the asshole here bro. grow up obviously u dont know shit about muhammad ali so go figure out wtf ur talking about.
jsharps1000 2 weeks ago
@jsharps1000 Just to clear this up with you I train with Bryon Mackie, who trained Logan Cotton McGuiness. I am only aloud to fight boys because its not fair to put me up against the girls.
My Headgear is covered in my brothers blood. Now I'm no professional but I'm not a dumbass either. All I am saying is that Ali wasn't as good as he or anybody else thought.
Weak but Classy
People were intimidated by him from what they were lead to beleive he was which in fact he wasn't.
boxingsinger 1 week ago
that rep he had is what made him so great.
jsharps1000 5 days ago
Has anyone else thought ' Shut the F*ck up ' .
oXxShaQxXo 3 weeks ago
amazing
03bhok 3 weeks ago
flawless the greatest at work..the best boxing match on you tube
006warlord 3 weeks ago
Damn Cleveland took that ass whoopin like a soldier.
UberNigga 3 weeks ago
WHAT A MAGNIFICENT SPECIMAN!!!!!!!!!!
4dabetta10 3 weeks ago
Ahhhhhhhh fuck my ass awesome
membland 3 weeks ago
Just unearthly.
Anyone who reckons "prime Tyson" (whatever that is!) could compete with this - is living in a whole world of fantasy.
roquefort88888 3 weeks ago
6:40 is just sick.
xSportsKingx 3 weeks ago
Brilliant display by THE GREATEST!!
Mrsteele311 4 weeks ago
Intouchable ! imbattable! grandissime! la perfection absolue
zebulon95000 4 weeks ago
Ali destroyed my man's conk
cyenceMillenium 4 weeks ago
Perfection
rudebwoy8 4 weeks ago
Perfection
rudebwoy8 4 weeks ago
Ladies & gentlemen bear witness to The Greatest at his GREATEST!!!
TheStonecoldloner 1 month ago
Now this was a great ass whoopin . Poor cleveland.
alaza61 1 month ago
This is really artistic. His speed and power come together in this fight. Never has he danced like this before, nor has he danced like this ever again. In previous fights he was either fast or strong. Here he was sharp and both. Definetly unbeatable. No heavyweight in the history of boxing or ever likely in the future, would have defeated this Muhammad Ali. Simply artistic.
michaelyouth 1 month ago
big up 4 Ali.
Maxnotify 1 month ago
No-one has been similar to Muhammad Ali. and will not be. He will forever be the greatest heavyweight champion. He is an icon of boxing.
WhiteMuhammadAli 1 month ago 26
Ali should have tagged that announcer in the face until he called him by his name, Muhammad Ali!
dorsal08 1 month ago
@dorsal08 this was before he changed his name to ali
51iohC 1 month ago
@51iohC Ali was defending his title here (listen to the announcer at 7:45). He changed his name right after he took the title from Sonny Liston and was known by Ali afterwards. Some announcers, like this one, still refused to call him Ali and considered him, all the followers of the nation of Islam, and other civil rights protesters to be traitors to the United States. I'm sure you know all this but the announcer creates this confusion by calling him Clay as he was known before his title.
dorsal08 1 month ago
@51iohC YOU ARE WRONG! Muhammad Ali changed his name 2 years before this fight....The racist announcer just REFUSED to call him "Ali".
publicatdamagnificen 1 month ago
THIS Ali would have beaten any HW in the entire history of the sport,ANYBODY!!!
onlyjoetee 1 month ago
Incredible!
PhflyDan1 1 month ago
Too pretty, too fast, too good!
Chex2331 1 month ago
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the Greatest of all time!
xiEpiCz 2 months ago
Ali at his physical best.. the Greatest of all time, without a doubt...ALI RULES!!!!!!!!
mjfrancis516 2 months ago
Ali at the top of his art in this fight, he punches, he dances and his face is so clean at the end :)
1979erosennin 2 months ago in playlist Liked videos
ali had too much swag
jay80009 2 months ago
He hits you as often as he wants, wherever he wants, however hard he wants to. You throw your fastest jab and he is gone before your arm is even straight. I cant even imagine how frustrating it would have been to fight Ali. Long live the greatest
cascist 2 months ago 4
I don't know anything about boxing and even I can see the greatest is. He's dancing circles around his opponent. Literally.
1satyagraha1 2 months ago
why does the commentator keep referring to the champ as clay when he was actually ali at this point of time.lucky for the cunt commentator not to be inside the ring or else the champ wud whup is atrocious ass.real bad.
MrRainbow31 2 months ago
@MrRainbow31 Ali had to much class to do something like that
TheSwediest 2 months ago
Ali was frighteningly good here
babakova 2 months ago
poor Ref he had to keep moving cause ali was dancing all over the place!
SuperLazyshikamaru 2 months ago
ali is not a boxer here. he is an artist!
ronan5547 2 months ago
Is a fing of beaute'
tevas8 2 months ago
Yes unfortunately williams had been shot by a cop and was never the same boxer, he did have his title shots before (againt liston) and after the shooting. Ali was apparently very worried that he might hurt him so jerry izenberg advised him to try and end it quickly, which ali did. Alimnever liked injuring a fellow boxer (except terrel). You can see that against lyle: could have knocked him out but instead kept on pausing to have the ref stop. Same against foreman, when foreman is going down ali
om82lndn 2 months ago
@om82lndn That showed his class. Today you have these moron fighters, punching a guy who is going down, rabbit punching and trying to kill somebody. Ali just wanted to win, never hurt anybody.. Real class.
michaelyouth 2 months ago
@michaelyouth , ali is a gentleman. most of the boxers are morons unfortunately.that's why he was the people's champ. check out the video where he saves a veteran who was about to commit suicide. Ali is bigger than boxing. when norton had his terrible accident, who do you think went to see him first? yes you betcha.
om82lndn 2 months ago
is it true that williams had most of his intestines removed during surgery before this fight due to being shot
dnttalktomeh 2 months ago
@dnttalktomeh Going only on wikipedia, he did apparently have a significant chunk of his small intestine removed after he was shot by a policeman a year or so before the fight. If you look at his left leg above the knee you can see that it's a bit smaller than his right, which apparently was also due to him having been shot. Boxrec doesn't have anything about it, unfortunately. I wouldn't doubt it though.
mgm418871 2 months ago
Foreman needed a mile to throw a punch, hence his constant pushing to create distance.
om82lndn 2 months ago
Ali's ability to punch in all positions (including when walking back) is second to none. Showed it also again foreman where he was at times essentially punching in the same space as a phone box
om82lndn 2 months ago
Bruce Lee watched this for hours and copied the movements in synch because he thought Ali was the best ever.
carmodifire 2 months ago 8
Whenever anyone asks me that perennial question "Hey who was better Ali or (fill in the blank)?" I always refer them to YouTube and this fight...
LaMaisondeCasaHouse 2 months ago
he wouldnt get away with that shit against tyson
sextoyjimi 2 months ago
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You must be joking. Ali in his prime would have fucking demolished faggot-assed rapist Tyson.
KillSwitch2 2 months ago
This was an absolutely lopsided / one-sided perfect boxing exhibition. PERFECT!
Techspert 2 months ago
the master at his peak,we could have seen many of these if he was no been lay off by the government
cozmic24 2 months ago
Ali at his best.
moe991able 2 months ago
Alis left jab is inspirational , i also love how he dances about the ring with his gaurd down and relies on quick reactions and reflexes to dodge his opponents.
DuggyJ027 2 months ago
Man ali was not just pretty he was poetry in motion, the man was beautifully built for boxing !!! big but nimble and he moved with the grace of a cat!! I doubt if we will see another boxer with such a talent.............If he was white they would have built cities in his honor and if he was asian they would said he was a god!! But to us blacks he was just a smooth operator.
bertelliish 2 months ago
That was shitty of that ref not to just stop the fight at the end of two. He made Williams go endure another two minutes of that misery. Not nice.
slimmsayton 2 months ago
wow ali lost sooooooooooooooooooooooooo mucchhhhh speed and reflex when he come back after the layoff
cozmic24 3 months ago
By the time it was possible for a rematch between Foreman and Ali, the year was 1977-78'ish...Ali was already showing mild symptoms of Parkinson's and aging as he was now 35-36 years old. Foreman might have won a 15 rd decision. (remember Foreman quit boxing for 2 years and slipped into a terrible depression the night he lost to Ali, so a rematch right away wasn't possible.)
IASOU2005 3 months ago
One of my favorite fights with Muhammad Ali. It's amazing!
magrebmashup 3 months ago 25
He just runs rings around the man!
leepeewee1 3 months ago
@leepeewee1 ok man, naw get back to your mom!!
pauloafonso100 3 months ago
@pauloafonso100 Get back to your mom what you on about
leepeewee1 3 months ago
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danhantheman 3 months ago
what a man
mattyredmond1994 3 months ago
Thank you joshmar11 for this PRICELESS hi-def footage! So exciting to see a master at work! The Greatest of All Time, Ali was so artistic but not only that, never has there ever been a heavyweight fighter who shows such finesse. Ali wasn't just a great boxer, he was a very smart
shioumaguh 3 months ago in playlist Explosive Boxing
The first minutes of this fight is where they used the commercial with Laila.
Ali was so smooth on his feet in his younger days.
khaliamoon 3 months ago
@ doerockstar @ doerockstar: ow it may was a easy fight but what do u say about alis fight against foreman n frazier or sonny liston? one of the best fighters and had one of the hardest punch in the sport lol get lost f-k haters
said090 3 months ago
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This is what you call COMPLETE CONTROL. They should copy and paste this link next to the word "control" in the dictionary.
therealist811 3 months ago
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Muhammad Ali is probably the greatest champion in history of boxing, majical blend of speed, strengh, grace and courage. Ali transcend boxing, transcend sport, he even transcend national borders. he represent the best of any of us. the most talented , the most fun. the most recognizable person in world.
cozmic24 3 months ago
Omg what magnificent footwork.
SteroidsMakeMeStrong 3 months ago
This is a piece of art !
in this fight you can abvious see that ali was way better then all his openents. ( 1964-1967)
he was faster, better technic, incredible stamina , and great intelligency of boxing art.
simply THE greatest
bestlions 3 months ago 25
a left a right, left right by clay, now a left and a right, left and a left a right... just say he's beating him up!
GeneTalk 4 months ago
first time i see this fight. just wow
TheLonesomeChef 4 months ago
Not a fundementally sound style, but man was it fun too watch. His style could only work with killer reflexes.
randomaznpopper 4 months ago
@randomaznpopper That's true. Technically, Ali would be a horrible choice for a boxer to model his style on, but I think that's why there will never be another boxer like him. One of a kind gem.
singhisking853 4 months ago
commentator said he looks like a dancer...that is the greatest compliment right there
coolmartcola 4 months ago
JOSHMAR11.
THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH. i fucking love you for these videos haha
SILOETTE100page 4 months ago
Boxing purest hated his no hands up style ........but how fuckin wrong they were!!!!!
THE GREATEST AT HIS GREATEST!!!!!!!
BBNBoss 4 months ago
@BBNBoss I was watching Ali v. Doug Jones today and the announcer said "one flaw of Clay is that he keeps his hands down which might get him into trouble". I said to the TV out loud, "Or might make him the greatest fighter ever!" That was Ali's 18th fight so its understandable how they thought he would just fade away like so many others. Little did this guy know that he was watching the greatest ever!
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The most impressive, though, is how high this vid quality is
ruckaisawesome 4 months ago
The most impressive, though, is how high this vid quality is
ruckaisawesome 4 months ago
The most impressive, though, is how high this vid quality is
ruckaisawesome 4 months ago
great fighter no doubt
apk2393 4 months ago
Williams clearly had Ali on the run until that last punch...
brassplyer 4 months ago
i think this is the first time ali start using ali shuffle
inviziblehunter 5 months ago
"Ali ducked nobody" then why wasn't Foreman given a rematch he had asked for?
destroyxeverything 5 months ago
@destroyxeverything Probably because Foreman didn't come even close to winning the first time round.
tedsuplex 5 months ago
@tedsuplex i dont think you can say he ducked foreman beacause he didnt give him a rematch.......he beat him....plain and simple.......not everybody gets a rematch.....life is tough
jdstox1 3 months ago
@destroyxeverything foreman went into a deep depression after the fight ,
arcz10 4 months ago
@destroyxeverything Foreman got beat with ease and finesse..He would have lost again in a rematch..And Foreman knows this..You can tell he knows that just by the way he talks about Ali
KillaKev256 3 months ago
@destroyxeverything go and ready forman book called god in my corner, where forman himself said that ali told him on the phone to fight ken norton and if he win he would give him rematch, but forman said to ali that he is becoming preacher yada yada go read it , and tell me what you think
cozmic24 3 months ago
@destroyxeverything ali beat him easily whats the point of a rematch with foreman when he was not good enough
whisperkid1 1 month ago
This is art.
wehsen 5 months ago
@bigfatAMERCANbastard LMAO!!! your so stupid. You have proven my superiority with my post. You can't even understand anything I say because it is beyond you. Good show sir. I accept your admission of defeat. -- Hit me up for round two whenever you'd like. HAHAHA!!!!!!
VikingII 5 months ago
@VikingII I love boxing videos, but the comments are better. I've read your back & forth. seriously dude, you're like Clevelend Williams over here. your lumbering around clumsily, bravely trying to defend yourself but your just making yourself a target. that big bastard keeps getting in stinging jabs.
maybe it's time to quit.
yoursuchagoodguy 5 months ago
@yoursuchagoodguy You don't understand. He has no "Stinging jabs." He has no point at all. His entire "argument," a name it barely deserves, is based off of a logical fallacy. Fallacy of accident or sweeping generalization. I can't argue with anybody, especially online, because they don't understand the mechanics of a point or logic. I tried explaining, then I trolled him for a little bit, and he keeps bringing irrelevant information into the mix. So fuck it, and fuck him. He is a retard.
VikingII 5 months ago
@yoursuchagoodguy He has NO idea how to punctuate a quotation, does that mean he has no useful information or the point to his sentences are void and useless? No. Does that mean he is a complete idiot? No.--He believes the ability to spot an error in ones grammar or syntax means that are uneducated, illiterate, and stupid in all aspects of life; regardless of whether or not it is an error or a legitimate misunderstanding of the language.
VikingII 5 months ago
@yoursuchagoodguy My point is he is a troll, and that is it. He is an internet troll; useless. All he does is hop on here, criticize people by checking their grammar to feel superior, because he is a lowlife in real life. He has no power in any sense, and it makes him feel powerful. He is just a piece of shit searching for a way to feel better about himself by tearing others down, rather than building himself up.
VikingII 5 months ago
@VikingII alright already I get your point. I wasn't trying to make you mad I was trying to offer a little good natured help. please don't take it out on me sorry I brought it up. peace
yoursuchagoodguy 5 months ago
@yoursuchagoodguy I'm not mad, it's just hard to explain it concisely all in one post.
VikingII 5 months ago
@bigfatAMERCANbastard The problem is, you try to base your initial argument that I have no idea about boxing simply because I lift weights. Unfortunately for you, running my sentences through a grammar checker, is irrelevant information. No matter how much you scurry through the grammar checker like an insecure rat piece of shit, it won't help you prove your point. It is a fallacy of logic. They are irrelevant connections based off of a fallacy of accident or sweeping generalization. Good luck.
VikingII 5 months ago
@bigfatAMERCANbastard Still you prove me correct. AGAIN, you are so stupid. 1) You still don't understand the science. 2) learn to use punctuation properly.
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Still on your journeys of idiot.
VikingII 5 months ago
пиздец
JesusSpaceman 5 months ago
@bigfatAMERCANbastard You don't understand, it is not a singular event. I need no help with it; apparently you do.
Oh yeah, I suppose it is time for me to tell you that your entire "argument" which I have mapped out entirely the moment I saw your very first idiotic post is based on nothing, and it is a delusion in every aspect of the science. It is beyond your comprehension; you will never understand the intricacies of this logic. Therefore, I shall not explain it to you. Good luck again.
VikingII 5 months ago
@bigfatAMERCANbastard Apparently, it's the journey you are, unknowingly, on.
Oh yeah, your punctuation is all fucked up; good luck figuring it out. I don't expect you to figure it out though, you're a fat dumb bastard after all.
VikingII 5 months ago
@bigfatAMERCANbastard It's called your own medicine dip shit, learn to read, and learn to write. Good luck on your journeys of idiot. You STILL lack the capacity to formulate a point or sentences more complicated than the most basic sentence structure; you are truly a dumb piece of shit.
VikingII 5 months ago
@bigfatAMERCANbastard You have useless trolling powers, I can give you a taste of your own fat fuck medicine. worthless scum. Wait no, let me rephrase this whole thing.---
You have useless trolling powers.
I can give you a taste of your own medicine: Fat fuck 100mg.
It's a common mistake to chop sentences into little bits to avoid mistakes, however, it shows the reader that the writer is scared to write complex sentences due to their limited understanding of the English language.
VikingII 5 months ago
@VikingII
lol why you mad bro
Robstailey 5 months ago
@bigfatAMERCANbastard hahahaha, yes, that is what I said. You have no point again. You just proved me right, AGAIN! Keep it coming dumbass. I'll be waiting for something intelligent. strike 5 idiot.
VikingII 5 months ago
"That must be where your head is at." Where is my head? My head is on my shoulders, that makes no sense. your reference to the location of my head is nonsensical and ridiculous slang that proves you have no grasp of the English language. You sir, are a dumb nigger that must have learned language as a slave listening the slots of the barn as your mother was willfully "raped" on a farm.
VikingII 5 months ago
@bigfatAMERCANbastard You lack the foundations of Logic and the philosophy of truth to ever establish an argument worth shit. You can spend the rest of your short cholesterol infested life trying to be better than me in any aspect, and it will never work. You are the definition of shit. Your genes of down syndrome will be passed from generation to generation, none of your children, regardless of how advanced the human race becomes, will EVER surpass my intellectual or physical prowess.
VikingII 5 months ago
@bigfatAMERCANbastard You will always be a fat fuck, useless piece of rat jealous ego-broken, scum shit, that perilously scours the depths of the internet and thesaurus in an attempt to find some sort of grammatical or syntactical miscue in an attempt to stroke your 1 inch ego; but it's okay, because you will know deep down inside your a worthless piece of retarded shit.
VikingII 5 months ago
You're probably eating right now to comfort yourself and beating off swearing to yourself that you are so smart. Trust me, you're a dumbass. My mental prowess is far beyond anything you will ever achieve. It doesn't matter how much time you spend in any school anywhere, how much you lie to yourself, no matter what focus drugs you take, you will ALWAYS be dumber than I am.
VikingII 5 months ago
@bigfatAMERCANbastard how can someone be as fat and fucking stupid as you? I'll be waiting for you reply.
VikingII 5 months ago
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@bigfatAMERCANbastard Hey look a typo!!! I typed 1000 instead of 100*, that makes my point moot and irrelevant. Oh hey, LMAO, that isn't a word! That is an acronym and it isn't presented accurately, that is another miscue! OH shit, I guess all the information provided is now useless and it proves I must have down syndrome! Oh wait, no it doesn't, I'm not a useless fat fuck with no point. Mistakes are irrelevant, just like all of your comments.
VikingII 5 months ago
@bigfatAMERCANbastard You point is completely useless. you take off of out of context, I type over 1000wmp It is also a common mistake to type It's instead of its when the meaning is understood. You are a complete fool. You have no understanding of logic or truth. You are both fat and stupid. You are nothing at all. You are so scared because you are a fat piece of shit, and I am physical and mental perfection. It would pain me as well if I knew I was worthless.
VikingII 5 months ago
@bigfatAMERCANbastard lmao, You are obviously an idiot that doesn't understand anything at all. You can base something off of something. It is not a misunderstanding. You are an idiot troll with no point. You still refuse to display anything at all in the way of a point, because you are beneath me intellectually. You prove it yourself. Each post you continue to show more and more ignorance and stupidity. You have no understanding of logic.
VikingII 5 months ago
@bigfatAMERCANbastard I mean seriously, lets look at all of your posts, you just repeat several adjectives that suggest or directly claim I am an idiot or stupid based off of lifting weights, and accidentally saying it's instead of its. Childish at best. Try providing an actual argument or point. You have none, I could troll you just as you are trolling me, but it is intellectually beneath me. I challenge you to provide any sort logical argument for anything.
VikingII 5 months ago
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VikingII 5 months ago
@bigfatAMERCANbastard Ha!,your inferiority complex is hilarious. You are attempting to extrapolate a simple grammatical error into something that it is not, because you have no content to provide. Your entire "argument," if it can even be called that, is based off of insults and irrelevancies. You have no point or proof of anything. My point stands, regardless of the mistake of Its and It's. You have no reliable retort, however, so you must rely on slander, the tool of the loser in an argument.
VikingII 5 months ago
@bigfatAMERCANbastard Thats a Joke; "gyming" isn't a word...and it's not necessarily homosexual to dangle on someone's pubic hair. Your constant reference to "beefcake" and so on is cognitive dissonance at it's best. You are forced to believe that you possess an intellectual superiority over people in better shape than you to comfort your weak ego; the truth is that you are both fat and stupid. If i possess both traits, intellect and physical, you would be useless. Which I do, so you are.
VikingII 5 months ago
@bigfatAMERCANbastard ill go back to lifting weights and you can go back to dangling from ali's balls and jungle jimming around his pubes
VikingII 5 months ago
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Brilliant Ali
Roman1991m 5 months ago
Brillian Ali
Roman1991m 5 months ago
Williams had been shot in the belly by a cop a year or so before this fight, and it caused him a lot of problems. But he was certainly no slouch.
This is Ali at his very best.
One of the most beautiful displays of skill I have ever seen in any sport.
yoursuchagoodguy 5 months ago
Muhammad Ali is one of the greatest man that ever lived.
destroyxeverything 5 months ago
Apollo Creed tried to copy this style of fighting ... and got killed.
TubetakerBHV 5 months ago 2
@TubetakerBHV lmao
blakTiGGeRXXX 5 months ago
These guys hop around like fucking retards. I wanted to see a fight. this shit is ridiculous.
VikingII 5 months ago
@VikingII Haha, you think you could have taken him, "viking"?
dfelliott1 5 months ago
@dfelliott1 Dunno, I don't box. I'm in good shape, but it really doesn't matter if I could or not. He still hops around annoying as hell lol.
VikingII 5 months ago
@VikingII The dudes gotta 82" reach, and was really REALLY fast. He was keeping the man out of his reach and walking circles around him... Footwork is important in the ring. And Ali was the greatest. His fight style was unusual, but not retarded by any means. The man knew what he was doing.
dfelliott1 5 months ago
Ali blows dong. He is only promoted so heavily because of the black worship of the nation and their infinite megalomania and arrogance. He is not the greatest of all time.
VikingII 5 months ago
@VikingII name somebody better.
snoop11080 5 months ago in playlist muhameed ali
The commentator was so biased against Ali.
adebayo 6 months ago
whatta a hole the commentator is, he keeps calling him clay, every1 knew that pissed him off, lol. stupid ass
bphatboyjohn123 6 months ago