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74 sats \ 7 replies \ @Coinsreporter OP 16 Nov \ parent \ on: The Top 10 GOATs in Boxing - Tyson don't deserve a place Stacker_Sports
Did you watch Ali as well?
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100 sats \ 6 replies \ @siggy47 16 Nov
Oh yeah. The first Frazier fight you couldn't watch live. There was round by round radio coverage. A week later the fight was broadcast in the US on ABC's Wide World Of Sports. I have to admit I was a Joe Frazier fan. It pissed me off when Hunter S Thompson described Frazier as a "human hamburger."
Ali was one of the first of what I would call "hot dogs" in sports. He was brash and braggy, and very funny. He used to talk about how ugly Frazier was.
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74 sats \ 5 replies \ @Coinsreporter OP 16 Nov
Thanks for this little history of boxing. I hope you won't mind me not picking your beautiful Frazier in my list.
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20 sats \ 4 replies \ @siggy47 16 Nov
No. He probably doesn't belong. I think Tyson does, though. I like to imagine a fantasy fight between Ali and Tyson in his prime.
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63 sats \ 3 replies \ @Coinsreporter OP 16 Nov
Tyson played only against slow feets and hands, he was the best among the worst imo.
Why do you think Tyson should be in the list?
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @siggy47 16 Nov
What? Michael Spinks, Larry Holmes?
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43 sats \ 1 reply \ @Cje95 16 Nov
What about Jack Johnson? He’s really the forgotten Ali before Ali broke the barriers he did!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 16 Nov
That's right. It gets harder to compare really old fighters to modern fighters. Marciano would have been tiny in the 60s and 70s.
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