What Single Fight Would You Consider Ali

Why was Muhammad Ali's last fight considered very sad? Didn't he lose fair and square?

His last fight was against the late Trevor Berbick in the Bahamas in 1981. I distinctly remember this as it started several hours late becuse the arena was locked and no one could locate the people with the keys to open it.Ali lost a ten round decision against Berbick in a fight which can best be described as shameful. Ali clearly was in no physical shape to fight in the first place and he barely made the bell that started the 10th round. The fight proved to be of no use to Berbick as while he later became the "champ" after a couple of fights arranged by Don King,he was knocked out by Mike Tyson in the second round of their fight and his life began a downward spiral until his murder in 2006.Ali did lose "fair and square" (whatever that means in professional boxing) but also should not have been fighting. The Parkinson's disease which has now plagued him for nearly four decades was first becoming apparent and Ali had never recovered from the drastic weight loss he experienced when he began to take medication for thyroid issues.Here's the fight below. It's over an hour long and it's very painful to watch:The late Bobby Womack sang the national anthem.

Why was Muhammad Ali considered to be such a great boxing champion?

Greatness is not about statistics.Muhammad Ali is above all the boxers in past, present and may be future.Ali fought with the greatest fighters of his generation and beat everyone of them. He was out of the Sport due to ban for 4 years that too when was 28 years old. The peak of any boxer's career. He came back and became Champion again. it was when everybody was thinking his career is over.For his whole life he was underdog in boxing circles and no one used to predict that he would win. His will power, his technique, His speed were so unmatched that they look unbelievable. If you want have a look at his speed please see below -His technical superiority (Speed, Stamina, Power, Reach) was just one of the reasons.His will power in the ring (He once fought with broken jaw for 10 rounds against Ken Norton, In professional boxing that's called near suicide) was superior to any other fighter (Smoking Joe Frazier had the same kind of will power). he used to psyche out his opponents so much that they would admit defeat in their minds. Apart from boxing ring he was remembered the values he exemplified : religious freedom, racial justice and the triumph of principle over expedience. He transformed the entire African american community face and filled pride in them when they were racially abused in USA.  He set an example for every out there in world.Muhammad Ali was the Greatest and will always be !!

Who would have won a fight between Bruce Lee and Muhammad Ali?

Muhammad Ali wins. Bruce Lee himself admitted that in a real fight Muhammad Ali would beat him and I will explain below as to why.First off, there is a reason MMA and boxing separates contestants in weight classes, because the bigger men would have too much of an edge. Weighing at 236 pounds, Muhammad Ali outweighed Bruce Lee by almost a hundred pounds. That is huge. Bruce Lee knew that Muhammad Ali’s size would be too much of an edge. He could have beaten men of Ali’s size who lacked his skill, but we are talking about a man who is argued to be the one of, if not the best, heavy weight champions to ever step in the ring. This is not some contest between a small skilled man and a giant brute.At a glance you might assume Bruce was faster thanks to his smaller size, but being big doesn’t make you slow. In fact Muhammad Ali’s style was focused on speed. His style revolved on using constant movement and fast reflexes to keep moving around his opponents. He was so good that he could actually dodge punches from his opponents instead of just taking the hits.So Muhammad Ali wasn’t just stronger than Bruce Lee, he was likely also faster on his feet. Mike Tyson’s co-manager Jimmy Jacobs said that nobody realized how fast Ali was until somebody actually got in the ring with him. He also measured Ali’s punching speed against decorated middleweight Sugar Ray Robinson and found Ali’s punches were a good 25% faster despite him 45–50 pounds heavier.While Bruce Lee would attack in ways Muhammad Ali wasn’t used to used to seeing the boxing ring, but the champ did cross training with black belts, he would not be caught off guard like you might assume. Also keep in mind that he was much taller and the edge in reach. Ali was already used to keeping fighting men of similar reach to himself so he wouldn’t have much difficulty moving in and out Bruce’s reach.Don’t undersell Muhammad Ali’s strength though. Of his 56 wins, 37 were by knock out. That was against men in his own weight class he knocked out, ie, they were much bigger and could take more abuse than Bruce Lee.I do not want to undersell Bruce Lee’s skill, but he spent most of his life practicing martial arts and while he no doubt kept his skills up, Muhammad Ali was had years more experience in actual fights than he did. Apart from being faced with a fighting style he was not used to, Muhammad Ali would have the advantage on Bruce Lee in almost every area conceivable.

Why is Muhammad Ali considered to be one of the best boxers?

As they say in any fighting sport ‘’STYLES ALWAYS MAKE FIGHTS’’ and ‘’YOU GOTTA BEAT THE BEST TO BE THE BEST, and Ali did exactly that impressively.Anyone who actually knows Boxing will say Ali’s era was the time when the boxing heavyweight division was at his peak in terms of quality boxers compare to any era. A young Ali didn’t just beat but humiliated Liston twice (the most feared boxer at the time), beat Frazier twice, outlasted a big Foreman, Paterson twice, Shavers, even his losses, to the people he lost to and when. Even past his prime and had parkinson disease. When he fought Shavers, (arguably the hardest puncher in heavyweight Boxing) there’s punches Shavers landed on Ali that no other HW’s would survive them. When he fought prime Holmes, he took a beating and refused to give up, the ref had to stop the fight for his own safety. Which other HW can do that.?Most importantly, Ali’s fighting style and his skills. As a heavyweight, Ali did things you will never see a heavyweight do. Ali was a true freak of nature. People say Boxing has evolved, well Ali is one of the very very few boxers that im certain if he competed in any era of boxing, he would have done very well cause of his fighting style. Look at his fighting style and skills: he doesn't throw wild punches, he's not slow, he's very quick, his punches are very precise, he's one of the best counter-punchers, he has such an underrated defense, he has the heart of a champion, his toughness was on another level, and he has a sold chin. Name another heavyweight who stands over 6 ft tall and weighs over 200 lbs that can move like Ali??? Ali was like a lightweight in a heavyweight body. Even pound for pound, 7 times out of 10, Ali would beat most of the boxers if he was around their weight. Even SRR who was a middleweight, they said Ali’s punches were 2x faster than SRR’s punches, and truthfully, pound for pound Ali would beat SRRTo what Ali has done INSIDE THE RING and say he’s not one of the best boxer is just pure ignorance and biased.

Who would win in a fight if they were still alive and in their primes, Muhammad Ali or Joe Louis?

If Ali would stand still while Louis could see, then Louis was a huge, huge puncher(far bigger single punch than George) and he knew about banging to the body(EVEN IF HE DIDN'T IMPLORE IT OFTEN). Louis noted this knowledge of body punching while doing the first Ali-Liston fight. He has more power than George, because, when Joe was in position to go with that signature combo, you went down in half a round and were most likely out!Still, this would be a battle of the champions and an all-time battle for who was best, so Ali would fight like he did with Terrell(serious) and in the Frazier rematch(much outside of his prime). Louis struggled with flatfooted boxers and even those with far less dynamic/unpredictable movement in comparison with Ali and those fighters also had less reach/length than Ali. Ali was also faster and more precise than those fighters. So, this fight would be like Ali VS Williams/London or Ali VS Cooper 2: a KO/TKO.