On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:25:27 -0500, "Eisboch"
wrote:


"hk" wrote in message
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Yeah, Tim, he is. Ali is still the greatest. I closely followed the
heavyweight division since the days of Floyd Patterson until the 1990s,
and there was never ever anyone as good as Ali at his best.


With that we completely agree.

My brother, who is almost 6 years younger than I, often have this debate.
He thinks Ali was a media sports star and not a real fighter. When I
recall the battles he fought and the ultimate athleticism in which he did
it, there is no contest in my mind.

I had to scrounge around to find this, but it's a great article on
Ali/Frazier...

http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/box...ory?id=3065738

--

"Far better it is to dare mighty things,
to win glorious triumphs even though
checkered by failure, than to rank with
those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor
suffer much because they live in the gray
twilight that knows neither victory nor
defeat."

Theodore Roosevelt