Ali Fights Analysis Project

A public repository of opinions & analyses of Ali’s fights

This post is an open-source research project on the analyses of the professional fights of Muhammad Ali. Anyone can participate in this project. In case you’re also an Ali enthusiast and wish to make your opinions as a part of this project in the public domain, add your opinion in the Comments section below preferably with your Name & Social media handle (@Twitter/FB). Alternatively you can send your analysis to raman.butta.nitdgp@gmail.com. Your analysis will be reviewed & added to this project as soon as possible referencing your name. Mention the Ali fight which you are analysing. Your analysis can be as long as a write-up or as short as a one-liner.
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Hunsaker 1960 Siler 1960 Esperti 1961 Robinson 1961 Fleeman 1961 Clark 1961 Sabedong 1961 Johnson 1961 Miteff 1961 Besmanoff 1961 Banks 1962 Warner 1962 Logan 1962 Daniels 1962 Lavorante 1962 Moore 1962 Powell 1962 Jones 1962 Cooper 1962 Liston 1964 Liston 1965 1. Ali was too fast for Liston in the 2nd fight. Sonny felt like he was surrounded until a punch came from nowhere and knocked him down. Ali showed that punching power is not an indispensable ingredient of a knock-out. He proved it again in his fight with Jurgen Blin. Ali’s punches were like an avalanche, a single one may be insufficient but a cumulation can crumble mountains. You initially feel that his jabs are bearable but by the time you realize the cumulative damage, its too late. Floyd Patterson once remarked that Ali’s punches won’t knock you down, they’ll rub you off and dizzy you down. He was right. Patterson 1965 Chivalo 1966 Cooper 1966 London 1966 Mildenberger 1966 Williams 1966 Terrell 1967 Folley 1967 1. The most invincible Ali was in this fight. With umpteen tactics up his sleeve and an unmatched agility+strength, the concorde was at its highest then ! – contributed by @Raman Butta Quarry 1970 Bonavena 1970 Frazier 1971 Ellis 1971 Mathis 1971 Blin 1971 Mac Foster 1972 Chuvalo 1972 Quarry 1972 Lewis 1972 Patterson 1972 Bob Foster 1972 Bugner 1973 Norton(1) 1973 Norton(2) 1973 Lubbers 1973 Frazier 1974 Foreman 1974 Wepner 1975 Lyle 1975 Bugner 1975 Frazier 1975 Coopman 1976 Young 1976 Dunn 1976 Norton 1976 Evangelista 1977 Shavers 1977 1. This was the last great fight of Ali. It was also the fight where Ali took some good face shots. Based on my observation, this fight contributed the most to his slowing down and Parkinson-like symptoms later on. His speech started slurring only after this fight. The last round of this bout is one of the best and reveals the warrior-spirit of Ali. – contributed by @Raman Butta Spinks(1) 1978 Spinks(2) 1978 Holmes 1980 Berbick 1981

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My favourite Ali fights :

Ali Cooper 1……………………………“Henry Cooper’s no jive, the fight will end in five.”
Ali Liston 1………………………………“Liston must fall in Eight,to prove that I am great”
Ali Liston 2………………………………“I told you that I had a surprise”
Ali Turell………………………………….”My name is Muhammad Ali”
Ali Vs Cleveland Williams………..”You watch me shuffle and I’ll jab off your head”
Ali Folley fight………………………….”I’m always confident”
Ali Quarry 1……………………………..”I’m baaaaaccck”
Ali Quarry 2……………………………..”He’s the last of the white hopes”
Ali Vs Buster Mathis………………..”So leave me alone and shut up and be glad that you saw a good fight”
Ali Vs Bob Foster……………………..”Then he is great if he don’t go in eight”
Ali Vs Jürgen Blin
Ali Frazier 1,2,3………………………..”Dancing you and whupping you and dancing”
Ali Norton 2 ……………………………“If I weren’t in good shape, in no way I could have won the fight”
Ali Foreman…………………………….”The man just took a superior, scientific beating.”
Ali Lyle……………………………………..”You will See me tonight literally take this man”
Ali Wepner
Ali Spinks 2……………………………..”It is befitting that I achieve the impossible”