Interesting what I was saying about class. He certainly showed it in the last line of this article:
"I don't call him [Ali] the best boxer of all time," Foreman said, "but he's the greatest human being I ever met."
*I* wouldn't have said that about Muhammad Ali! Lol.
I wouldn’t call ali the best of all time either. The best since color television maybe.
Joe louis
jack dempsey
Sugar ray(the first one)
These guys were better than ali. But ali certainly was the most unusual, most entertaining, most surprising, most exciting, and most charismatic.
I watch old movies of ali’s fights over and over and I still can’t believe he wins them. It really is amazing. The guy is a miracle in the ring...a real life pretty boy that fights big tough guys using his brain...AND FREEKING WINS! That is a favorite storyline in movies, but in real life it never never almost never ever happens. It just doesn’t.
And yet, with ali, it does.
I honestly think that had ali never been born, boxing would’ve died out 25 years ago or more. It would’ve gone the way of bowling.
Oh yes.
I don't mind telling ya, he really scared me as a kid. He was a really scary guy. I haven't seen any heavyweight boxer who I thought was as strong, and evoked as much fear as Foreman did at his peak.
“I don't call him [Ali] the best boxer of all time,” Foreman said, “but he's the greatest human being I ever met.”
*I* wouldn't have said that about Muhammad Ali!Lol.*"
Same here.
I'd put it the other way round. Ali is the greatest boxer I have ever seen, but the “greatest human being”? No way. Still, it's nice of Foreman to say so.