When a baseball fan says ‘he has an arm like a cannon’ I can only imagine your response.
“When a baseball fan says ‘he has an arm like a cannon’ I can only imagine your response.”
Seems like you’re in a different conversation. Hate to interrupt, but what does this have to do with anything? Perhaps you think I took the original poster’s point too literally? I don’t see why I shouldn’t have. It didn’t seem figurative, metaphorical, poetic, or whatever. Even if it was, you’d take away from it that, as compared to the flashy and cerebral Ali, Frazier was just simple, hard-workin’ folk. Or perhaps an iron-tough blockhead like Rocky (who was partly based on Frazier, as established above).
Which is misleading, if not outright false. Because Frazier had an ingenius style, as inscrutible in its way as Ali’s floating and stinging. He didn’t let Ali rain blows on his face, relying on his constitution and sheer willpower to win. He rather turned himself into a jumble of arms, shoulders, and back, giving little for the opponent to strike.
And, yes, going forward while doing it. But to pretend like that’s all he did, or most of what he did, or the part of what he did that is most worthy of comment, makes him look like an idiot, like I said. Rocky may have been all heart, but any real life boxer who fought like him wouldn’t have got past Golden Gloves.