[SmokingJoe]

Foreman was one fearsome hombre.
Dang! That fight with Joe Frasier before he even fought Ali in Kinshasa..he just destroyed Frazier..and Frazier is no walkover. He is a great boxer in his own right.
After Foreman had annihilated Frasier, I was really convinced Foreman was going to slaughter Ali, but then Ali used his head, out-phsyched, and outsmarted Foreman with that rope-a-dope, and sent Foreman crashing down. Ali is really one of the best boxers that ever lived.

[john in springfield]

Foreman was an animal in those days. And not a nice animal, either.

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.

[Terry Mross]

And Foreman knocked out Ken Norton. Norton was a great fighter. Ali broke his jaw but he still finished the fight. Big George was simply too angry. He was sullen. But I was pulling for him. I couldn’t stand Ali’s big mouth even though it was an act.

As for Frazier, I’ll always believe he beat Ali twice. I thought Foreman would kill Ali. A lot of us thought that.

I loved watching the fights on ABC’s Wide World of Sports on Saturday afternoons. I watch the Ali - Ron Lyle fight. Lyle had him whipped and the ref stopped the fight and gave it to Ali. I’ll always believe that and Lyle always believed it. And the announcers were shocked that the fight was stopped.

Oh, how I long for the good old days. Three T.V. channels so after the fights we kids had to use our imaginations to have fun.