What makes him appear great is his Islamic spirit

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Boxing will always be supported and loved. It being banned as a sport is what'd I'd call 'future paranoia'

​@@gioblankkBoxing is one of the few sports where you hate the sport but actually love the athletes

@@riyadriyad5911 I've never heard that in my life before 💀

@@riyadriyad5911 You mean WWE ??

Wrongful suspension….???? Refusing induction in the Armed Forces… You don’t get to make up your own rules…..

Lolll....wrongful suspension...

@@hanajinks1044 it was a wrongful suspension. THE LAW THE SUPREME COURT SAID IT WAS WRONGFUL.

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I am not impressed by Ali's Energizer Bunny routine. He spent 4 rounds doing that without a single punch.

@@EvenStar303 Such is the essence of superior boxing. By moving around, using the ring, throwing jabs to keep the opponent at bay. Muhammed Ali was ahead of his time. By showing time and time again. That intelligence, athletic ability, and skill will win most of the time. Before Ali, the Heavyweights were mostly toe-toe brawlers. They didn't last long. Ali brought a style that does last.

@@jstube36 Looks cowardly to me. I am not interested in sitting here watching him hop around like a bunny for 4 rounds. Making it last with no action is useless. Many modern fighters would have knocked Ali out in the first round. And the knock out in this match looks suspicious. There was no power in it yet the guy was knocked out??? I call bullshit on this one. Rigged fights are a common accurance even today.

@@EvenStar303 I used to think that at first. Of course I learned that it is a brilliant tactic. What Ali is doing is daring his opponent to come after him. Then catch his opponent off-balance and counter with jabs and combinations. it is very much like a bull fight. With Ali playing the master matador. The opponent playing the ignorant bull. This not only a standard strategy in Boxing. You'll see this in Martial Arts. Forcing the opponent to make a move. Then move or block and counter. Which Ali displayed in his brilliant career. In his prime. Ali fought many hard punchers. But he was so fast and elusive, they would not lay a glove on him for complete rounds. But Muhammed also showed he had one of the toughest chins ever. Meaning he was not easy to take down. Just watch his famous fight with George Foreman. Ali took everything Foreman had. Then knocked George out later. He was The Greatest of all time for many reasons. But in the ring he did it all.

@@EvenStar303 A man that knows what he's watching. They're few and far between. This fight was indeed fixed, as was both Ali/Liston fights. Liston was the best heavyweight ever. He crushed everyone, Ali had no chance against Liston. His management would never have put him in against Liston at that time to begin with. Liston would have ruined Ali's career, set him back a couple years or more.

Just like Foley missed his cue

You should. He must have been a good man

​@@4EyedAnimationI was waiting for the boom. Ali was so fast, it was easy to miss the knockout

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Totally, they took away those almost four years to match him a little to the rest

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60 ties Ali fought nobody of great quality

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no laying on the ropes either. it would have been no contest.

Spanked.

No Heavyweight in history could beat that Ali 😉

@@terryscott2007 Sonny Liston would have destroyed Ali in a real fight. Liston was the best HW all-time.

Questo era il primo, Ali': era velocissimo e potente quanto bastava (potenza derivante dalla sua stessa velocita'). Il successivo Ali' perse queste qualita' (non del tutto ma abbondantemente): tuttavia, Ali' sconfisse quasi tutti i pugili piu' forti con l' astuzia. Per questo Ali' rimane un fuoriclasse: forse non il piu' forte pugile della storia? Puo' essere ma sicuramente e' stato un fuoriclasse unico nella Boxe (come un fuoriclasse unico lo e' stato Tyson con uno stile completamente differente parlando del primo Tyson). Quindi Ali' credo che possa esser inserito tra i piu' forti pugili della storia (io, inserirei anche il primo Tyson, Foreman e Lennox Lewis). Oltre a tutti gli altri precedenti come Linston, Rocky Marciano, ecc .

I agree, he was definitely landing better than Ali's previous opponents up to that point. None of these guys moved their heads, though, and I think that's why Ali had so much success with wearing them down with jabs. Terrell before this tried to cover his face the whole time to deal with the jabs, but then he couldn't see, which is no good when you have to hit a target that moves as much as Ali. This fight with Folley might've gone much further if he had trained to move more, I think.

I would’ve thought his toughest fight was with Chuvalo.

Foley was the best scientific fighter of all of Ali's 9 title defenses in this reign. Patterson cold be in the discussion but he was undersized and plagued by a bad back. Foley was perhaps a couple years past his prime against Ali but still had tremendous skill. One could argue that he was the best overall fighter in the 9 defenses as well. I won't talk about Liston 2. I already mentioned Patterson. Chuvalo was a durable but slow easy to hit fighter customed made fot Ali. Williams was past prime but was always too slow to be in the ring with Ali. It was target practice for Ali. Brian London was an easy payday. Mildenberger's southpaw stance and durability gave Ali some problems but Ali figured it out pretty quickly and made easy work of the southpaw. Terrell fought a very defensive fight to survive but probably lost 14 or even all 15 rounds in a one sided beating. Again he was too slow. Oh and Cooper was always dangerous but cut too easily. Ali stayed away from the hook in the rematch. But Foley had good speed and boxing skills and really gave Ali some legitimate competition for a few rounds. Once Ali decided to sit down on his punches it was only a matter of time though.

@@bobbywise2313 Excellent assessment. I agree completely. To me the damn shame for both Folley and Williams is that they were avoided by Patterson, as well as Johansson. It's unfortunate for both that they didn't get a title shot until too old. Folley was still quite good at this point, his last really good performance, but Williams was a shell of his former self. I agree that I don't think he ever would have beat Ali, his style didn't match up well against Ali at all, but Williams had a real chance and perhaps could have knocked out both Patterson and Johansson. Folley may have been able to outbox both of them as well.

@@PhilAndersonOutside The two fights Williams had with Liston were great. Williams was almost killed in a mistaken identity shooting by a cop somewhere between his Liston fights and the Ali fight. Some said it was a miracle he could still fight after the shooting. He was a very hard puncher but generally lacked speed or ring cutting ability. He very well may have knocked out Patterson though. A prime Foley vs prime Patterson would have been a great matchup skill wise. It would be hard for me to pick a winner.

Agree. Also because Folley was a very experience, skilled fighter. His style didn't match up well for Ali, which challenged Ali, who of course delivered. Masterful boxing.

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Yeah, Ali is signalling to Folley to try end it quick. Hey Motherfucker, waiting for you.

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​@@4EyedAnimationAli had Foley knocked out sleeping flat faced, Foley got up like he didn't know where the he was,"which way did he go, which way did he go George?"

@@aarondigby5054 Aaron I've thought long and hard about what you said. You're right, I should've considered what you thought, and I apologize. We are lucky to have you on Earth, please don't ever leave.

@S Rod you are clueless a featherweight weighs in at 70 odd kg asshole

​@@srod2966211 pounds is heavyweight you talking shit

I love Ali but Tyson fury has too much weight on him Is 50 pounds heavier. Even though Ali has twice as much speed as he does. It's like a heavyweight finding a lightweight. I mean I bet Ali could gain weight maybe be 230 pounds

@@jeffriessman9693 I dont think tyson fury is touching muhammad ali

And Joe Frazier AND Ken Norton. He should have retired after the third Frazier fight. Then he’d just be slow of speech and not have Parkinson’s.

God only knows who are the champions are these days.

@@dustylover100 I not even know who is fighting these days , I been watching all the old fights lol

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That was my thought as well when I saw the punch that dropped Foley. It didn't look like a hard punch, but amazingly fast and clean to the temple.

They looked the same, no power at all. Not because Ali had magical power, because both Liston fights and this fight with Foley were all fixed. Those baby tap punches couldn't bust a grape.

ZF took a dive, they barely fought for 7 rounds. He almost took the easy way out in the 4th, but realized that looked too phony.

@@MrMarco855 thank you

@@4EyedAnimation Thank you.

Stop it

@@mrjamesgrimes why

@@madpriest7822 because six months later would have been September 1967 after Frazier just TKOd Chuvalo in four rounds . Ali had already fought Chuvalo in March of that year and it went to decision. Ali fought Frazier 3 times and it was always close. I don’t want to hear about prime this or that…Ali is only very slightly less than two years older than Joe. I’m not saying Ali wouldn’t have beaten him in 1967 but “crushed” or “15-0 shut out” is just stupid. So yes Ali is great but so was Smokin’ Joe…so f’n stop it.

@@mrjamesgrimes Yes, looking back at my comment, somewhat of an exaggeration (15-0). But I've always been of the opinion the judges in the 1971 fight were biased against Ali (one judge ridiculously scoring it 11-4). I felt Joe won Rounds 11 and 15 (the knockdown round), maybe one or two more. Ali peppered Joe most of the night, Frazier's face at the end, being the best evidence. In 1967, I don't think there would have been a Round 11 or 15 (meaning 2 point rounds for Frazier). The Ali of 67 didn't fatigue the way the later Ali did. In his 1966 fight with Cleveland Williams, Ali claimed he was "shook bad," but he managed to avoid any more damage with his speed and agility. And Williams, a much bigger man, probably tagged Ali harder than Frazier. 15-0? No, but I don't think it would have been very close. On the flip side, I've always felt that Ken Norton was Ali's true poison. What would have happened in a 1967-68 fight between those two?

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In the '70s, because of Ali and Billy "White Shoes" Johnson, we all wanted to wear white shoes.

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Long time ago....could Ali hold up against the newer, much bigger heavyweights? Klitscho, Lewis, Fury ?? probably not

@@DGill48 100% Yes. Ali is the greatest of all time. His style of fighting is eternal.

@@DGill48 Oh please-he would make them look like amateurs. No matter how big they are when you get a man 220lbs throwing a scientific punch at speed or with combinations they are going down. I doubt those ponderous punchers would even land a clean punch on his elusive head

Zora, Ali was the best and fastest Heavyweight he'd ever seen. A lot of his opponents thought that.

Good post. Foley wasn't washed up, but this was his last good fight, even though he lost. Like Williams, Foley was a fighter who should have gotten a shot years before.

Amazingly, I had never heard of him

@@jamesstreet228 he got knocked out years before by Liston 3 rds no

Zora Foley was also involved in one fixed fight. This fight.

foley at that time was considered the best counter puncher in the world.

It wasn't dull if you were watching it at the time it occurred and not just on KZfaq 55 years later. The drama that surrounded Muhammad Ali in those days is impossible to explain to someone who wasn't around to experience it. Young people today have never experienced anything to compare it to. Great fighter and an even greater person!

Yep, that is the propaganda talking. communism is tricky,---and you are going to fall for it.

​@@EarthSurferUSAIRS took all of Joe Louis' money even after Joe gave all his purses to military relief charities for families of fallen soldiers, USA propagandist imperialist capitalist dawgs

@15:50 that's one of Ali's funniest kos, Foley woke up and snapped his head around like he was in another deminsion somewhere, rflmao everytime

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Did you just watch this fight? Ali landed 2 punches the whole fight. Zola was on a schedule to get out of here in the 7th. He went down like he was dead then jumped up and flopped around. It was all theater.

@@4EyedAnimation Yeah just like the Liston fights, it looked phony as hell.

@@4EyedAnimation Are you really that stupid?

@@overnightdelivery You are a phony as hell.

He didn't even beat Terrell. Would have lost if he didn't damage Terrell's eye rubbing it along the top rope. Ali threw a lot of punches that hit Terrell's gloves. He landed very few punches overall.

That's why it was fixed.

@@MrMarco855 FIXED MY REAR END

yeah super sad he was in his prime era aswell and once he came back 3 and a half years later he wasnt the same he was slower and older such a shame i wish it never happened technically we havent seen prime Muhammid Ali cause he wasnt even allowed to box at the time

@@tt.60fps59 Beating Foreman at his peek made Ali the greatest figher ever !! Watch the 1994 film When we were kings .

@@trinihammer What currently is wrong with your rear end?

I think Ali would have Made a great president, he would have been great to keep world piece, other countries leaders respected him and knew he was a man that kept his word.

​@@vhhg4658 Really?

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A great man, I don't know him! A great fighter It don't seems on that match!

@@fabiocanestrari1313 he did pretty darn good against a young Muhammad Ali...

Thank you for your information. Very cheerful. I’m about to go to bed. Hardly bed time reading is it.

they proved his death wasnt suspicious. foley was drunk and dived into a pool with no water in it and broke his neck. the only suspicious thing about his death was he was at the pool with his mistress not his wife thats why the tongues started to wag.

Ali didnt knock Foley out early because he liked Foley. Foley was the first opponent who called him by his muslim name muhammed ali. Foley said thats the name he wants to be known as then thats what i am going to call him. Ali liked Foley for that.

There was a lot of money to be made in boxing if you were willing to fix fights and your people go out and bet low odds bets like ko in the 7th. That's how you turn ok money into a lot of money.

@@goinbananas1054 none of ali fights were fixed simply because back in the 1960s 70% of white people hated ali they would have rather paid someone to sleep with their wife than pay someone to let that uppity N.......R win. if you cant see that then you know nothing about the times of the 1950s to 1960s.

@dale stuart match fixing is the act of playing or officiating a match with the intention of achieving a pre-determined result, you're not supposed to know If a

Zora was no "journey man" boxer. Read the comments above.

@@fireballxl-5748 I've read them and I tried not to laugh! People can't except facts he was a journeyman like a lot of others that only got saying because of Ali's name!! Goodbye 👋👋👋👋

Sir Bobby I think you're right and I think in addition to that he spent the entire last round just waiting for the right angle to end it with one punch. you can see he had his right cocked several times and held back until he had just the right spot. it's almost as if he'd bet Angelo Dundee he could end it with one punch

Ali didn't seem to hit him that hard - as you say - he just got the right spot.

Folley was pretty old at this point, and well past his prime though

its every fighter's dream to fight for title. don't think he ever got a shot when younger, so why not go for it?

Bobby ...Ali made the sport entertaining and respectable.

Exactly. Like Cleveland Williams, neither Floyd Patterson, or Ingmar Johansson for that matter, wanted to fight Foley. Floyd was a great person, an honorable man, especially in retirement, but in many ways he was a hallow champion. Ducked Williams, ducked Foley, and ducked Liston until he simply no longer could.

Eddie Machen also in 1957 when Eddie was undefeated . Before fighting ingemar Johansson in 1958

@@PhilAndersonOutside, Patterson could not duck Ali either.

He beat them, too.

The US government, that is.

you can say that again.

He knew he was in a fixed fight.

@@MrMarco855 foley knew he had been outclassed by the master.

​@@MrMarco855 buffoon spotted ....

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Except the Foreman punch landed.

@@MrMarco855 hahahahha

@@MrMarco855the Foley ko punch didn’t land?

​@@MrMarco855bro's neck got twisted for a moment and you're saying it did not land man you haters are foul 😭

What would his motivation have been to “take a dive” when fighting for the title?

Nonsense 😮😮

Peter Chavez YOU ARE RIGHT!

imagine Ali vs. Frazier in 1968-69 without the layoff. would the fight have had the same result?

@@hasanx4637 imo ali would have definetely won

I'm surprised he was even able to come back after nearly 4 years out of the ring

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He was his own worst enemy. Breaking the law is usually not a great idea. They never would have sent him to Vietnam anyway; he would have served his two year enlistment handing out basketballs at the post gym.

Yeah I thought the same thing, no one tried anything and Zora went down too easily, acted like he was out cold then jumps up lol, but Ali certainly didn't do anything and barely had to do anything to end it

Thanks for knowing what you're watching. Most don't.

Buffoon spotted.....

Ali knows wer the sweet spot is.Thats how he got foreman..He fought a very intelligent fight in this fight.the other guy had a dangerous rt hand put after he got tired he became a setting duck

Nobody complained, until you 55 years later. :)

@@EarthSurferUSA ahead of my time, I presume 😎