Chamberlain Scared of Ali

[Willie Pep 229]

This Tik-Tok (YouTube short) concludes that Wilt Chamberlain begged off the Muhammad Ali fight during the Cosell interview because Ali scared him.

So is this how history/legends are made?

I believe the interview featured in the video was from 1967 with Cowsell but the video leaves the viewer thinking it's a 1971 encounter.

Poor editing or deliberate mis-information?

The skinny seems to be that Ali walked away from the 1967 offer for reasons we'll never know; and Wilt refused the 1971 offer when he was a no show at the signing with Jim Brown as promoter, claiming it not worth the offered guarantee.

But for this new generation this short Tik-Tok video may be the only info they will ever encounter and while it gives Ali an excuse, it makes Chamberlain look scared of Ali.

So is this how history gets made?



P.S. I'm not sure if Tik-Tok is the correct term for this 43 second historical ********.

[HOUDINI563]

Tik tok is another in a very long line of web sites loaded with fake news. If you want to learn about how the earth is flat, men never landed on the moon and other fake useless information it’s the place to be.

[QueensburyRules]

This Tik-Tok (YouTube short) concludes that Wilt Chamberlain begged off the Muhammad Ali fight during the Cosell interview because Ali scared him.

So is this how history/legends are made?

I believe the interview featured in the video was from 1967 with Cowsell but the video leaves the viewer thinking it's a 1971 encounter.

Poor editing or deliberate mis-information?

The skinny seems to be that Ali walked away from the 1967 offer for reasons we'll never know; and Wilt refused the 1971 offer when he was a no show at the signing with Jim Brown as promoter, claiming it not worth the offered guarantee.

But for this new generation this short Tik-Tok video may be the only info they will ever encounter and while it gives Ali an excuse, it makes Chamberlain look scared of Ali.

So is this how history gets made?



P.S. I'm not sure if Tik-Tok is the correct term for this 43 second historical ********.

- - Not to become political, but tiktok seems to have become a darling for NPR, a lefty news site. Tiktok is also Chinese run.

And NPR ain't yer daddy's NPR anymore before and certainly not after.

Side note: Searching for a recent fight and coming up short, finally I scored with Tiktok that I would've canceled immediately had I known it was them.

Net result was they seized control over the lower right quadrant of my screen with this and that and other click bait stink making it near impossible to use my computer. Took a couple of weeks, but I finally eliminated them. And I've always been careful as to what I click on, so they're very clever in disguising their takeover.

[Willow The Wisp]

If Wilt the Stilt wasn't afraid of Ali, he should've been.

[HOUDINI563]

Nobody agrees about what happened with this fight

Anyone who knows the sport understands that the basketball player had absolutely no chance to not be koed by Ali. First solid blow would end it either with Wilt cowering along the ropes being battered or a clean knockout. Wilt obviously knew he would be completely embarrassed and decided to head for the exits.

No athlete trained their entire life in another sport stands any chance in the ring with an elite heavyweight.

[QueensburyRules]

- - Chamberlain was a one off historical athlete who hated basketball, but it paid tuition with an unparalleled record setting pro career as the highest paid pro athlete of his day. The typical 2 dimensional lineal thinking citizen lacks intellectual capacity to understand that level of athleticism that would've preferred the 64/68 Olympics in track and field and decathlon like Jim Thorpe before him.

When the Ali fight was most prescient and internationally compelling was 1967 in what turned out to be his last year before gu'mint draft evasion charges and boxing suspensions kicked in. The story goes rightly or wrongly that Herbert took one look at Wilt and told Ali you ain't fighting him.

The video evidence is irrevocable. Wilt made Ali look like a 6 year old school boy as he badgered Ali to sign the contract as arranged by Cosell and ABC to take place in the ABC studio, and Ali wouldn't or more likely couldn't go against Herbert's dictates. Malcolm had first been firebombed and later assassinated, and while Ali weren't the brightest, he knew enough to not want the same result.

The other 2-3x the fight was proposed, Wilt like Babe Ruth was just using boxing to leverage favorable contract signings. An Ali fight then was near worthless because of political and venue insurance liabilities revolving around potential casualties if the NOI kicked off, so in $um total, more and more never enough money to get Wilt out of the gate.

[JAB5239]

- - Chamberlain was a one off historical athlete who hated basketball, but it paid tuition with an unparalleled record setting pro career as the highest paid pro athlete of his day. The typical 2 dimensional lineal thinking citizen lacks intellectual capacity to understand that level of athleticism that would've preferred the 64/68 Olympics in track and field and decathlon like Jim Thorpe before him.

When the Ali fight was most prescient and internationally compelling was 1967 in what turned out to be his last year before gu'mint draft evasion charges and boxing suspensions kicked in. The story goes rightly or wrongly that Herbert took one look at Wilt and told Ali you ain't fighting him.

The video evidence is irrevocable. Wilt made Ali look like a 6 year old school boy as he badgered Ali to sign the contract as arranged by Cosell and ABC to take place in the ABC studio, and Ali wouldn't or more likely couldn't go against Herbert's dictates. Malcolm had first been firebombed and later assassinated, and while Ali weren't the brightest, he knew enough to not want the same result.

The other 2-3x the fight was proposed, Wilt like Babe Ruth was just using boxing to leverage favorable contract signings. An Ali fight then was near worthless because of political and venue insurance liabilities revolving around potential casualties if the NOI kicked off, so in $um total, more and more never enough money to get Wilt out of the gate.

This rubbish and lies have already been debunked and destroyed. You're like a sad little propaganda machine.

[The Old LefHook]

Chamberlain would have been knocked cold by the likes of Jerry Quarry, maybe even by Mike Quarry.

[QueensburyRules]

- - Chamberlain was a one off historical athlete who hatebrd basketball, but it paid tuition with an unparalleled record setting pro career as the highest paid pro athlete of his day. The typical 2 dimensional lineal thinking citizen lacks intellectual capacity to understand that level of athleticism that would've preferred the 64/68 Olympics in track and field and decathlon like Jim Thorpe before him.

When the Ali fight was most prescient and internationally compelling was 1967 in what turned out to be his last year before gu'mint draft evasion charges and boxing suspensions kicked in. The story goes rightly or wrongly that Herbert took one look at Wilt and told Ali you ain't fighting him.

The video evidence is irrevocable. Wilt made Ali look like a 6 year old school boy as he badgered Ali to sign the contract as arranged by Cosell and ABC to take place in the ABC studio, and Ali wouldn't or more likely couldn't go against Herbert's dictates. Malcolm had first been firebombed and later assassinated, and while Ali weren't the brightest, he knew enough to not want the same result.

The other 2-3x the fight was proposed, Wilt like Babe Ruth was just using boxing to leverage favorable contract signings. An Ali fight then was near worthless because of political and venue insurance liabilities revolving around potential casualties if the NOI kicked off, so in $um total, more and more never enough money to get Wilt out of the gate.

Yupsir, irrevocable Wilt was.

Whooped Jim Brown in two consecutive foot races and whooped Ali without throwing a punch. Harder for him setting the intercontinental NYC to LA land speed record in his brand new Bentley he special ordered and picked up in England. Matching Pee breaks with gas stops is killer.

[HOUDINI563]

First solid punch by any top ten heavyweight would have ended the fight. Wilt was not a fighter and you cannot make a fighter out of basketball player, PERIOD.