How would the Chamberlain-Ali fight have gone?

[JAB5239]

--- Looks like you never got the email in the day.

Any video of the secret gym fights Leonard had the year before Hagler?

Yet all these events occurred absent video just like Mt Vesuvius eruptions and your birth, heaven forbid!

Only in boxing!

I'm other words, you got nothing.

[billeau2]

Tell everyone the results of all the amateur and pro bouts Wilt Chamberlain had.

Any videos of Wilt sparring?

How about a video of Wilt hitting the sheets with the ladies?

Lots of proof for the bolded... prolly a few vids as well. I suppose Wilt could have tried to hump Ali's legs...

[billeau2]

This discussion is point less. If Wilt caught Ali with anything it would be amazing.

[JAB5239]

This discussion is point less. If Wilt caught Ali with anything it would be amazing.

Probably. But what are the chances? This isn't the first time anything like this has been proposed. Wilt was a big athletic guy, but unless you have fought before it's a moot conversation. I don't care who is training who.....it's no different than today's celebrity matchups, if you're not a world class boxer than you have a very limited chance. Wilt was a phenom, but he wasn't the end all of sports and athletics. Would Tunney hit a home run off off Ruth? Would Frazier win a decathlon? That might........but chances are it's not happening. There is a reason Jim Brown didn't follow through with his challenge to Ali...... because he knew the end result. And no one is going to tell me Wilt was a better athlete the Jim. I can speak from personal experience with guys that were no where near that level.....tough guys are a dime a dozen... everyone thinks they're tough until they run into a tough guy.

[billeau2]

Probably. But what are the chances? This isn't the first time anything like this has been proposed. Wilt was a big athletic guy, but unless you have fought before it's a moot conversation. I don't care who is training who.....it's no different than today's celebrity matchups, if you're not a world class boxer than you have a very limited chance. Wilt was a phenom, but he wasn't the end all of sports and athletics. Would Tunney hit a home run off off Ruth? Would Frazier win a decathlon? That might........but chances are it's not happening. There is a reason Jim Brown didn't follow through with his challenge to Ali...... because he knew the end result. And no one is going to tell me Wilt was a better athlete the Jim. I can speak from personal experience with guys that were no where near that level.....tough guys are a dime a dozen... everyone thinks they're tough until they run into a tough guy.

Exactly. Funny thing, my youngest was out here, and we were trying to find an old friend's page who had passed...He went to my page which I neglect... and there were pictures of me training some of my guys in the martial arts club, of which I was the president and master teacher. My son is tall and thin, takes after my wife and he wants to get bigger. I always told him I was not big at all in college... tipping the scales at maybe 180ish.

I looked positively scrawney (to me) in one of the pics... But here is the interesting thing. Nobody would look at me square... and believe me! I was the nicest, most gentle guy in the room most times. I would walk away if I could. But even at my size, primarily because I had a few lacrosse players as students... Nobody ever gave me a legit challenge (I actually had free fighting nights, anyone could come hard as they wanted I would match, not overpower). This included from a gigantic Navy base and another big base in the area with a lot of tough guys with things to prove...

At the time I was happy with how I looked, and looking at the pics I realized that most of my students, most of the student athletes, even other highly ranked guys in our own club, were convinced they would not beat me... despite the fact that I looked very unthreatening. lol.

When people rreally are good, being bigger, stronger, a better athlete is not necessarily going to help you much. Ali never had anything to fear from Wilt.

[QueensburyRules]

Ali kos him first right he lands. Big guy and great athelete but a silly match up. He wasn't a fighter.

- -Trained and promoted by Cus for one specific fight.

Cus/Wilt prob 3x the IQ of Ali/Herbert but hey, ho, I coulda had a 10 sec one punch KO over Ali too.

See how easy blabber is? When push came to shove at the ABC signing, all Ali had was blabber.

It's OK boys. Wilt was The Apex Predator of his day and much more so than Ali, he did it his way with no blips as one of the most modern men and advanced athletes of any era.

I've enjoyed U silly flustering willies clustering around Ali again. Good Times!