The Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame Muhammad Ali for Fighting Larry Holmes

[butterfly1964]

...I rated it bad.

I almost rated it terrible; but decided to pull my punches as Holmes did.

Well, hopefully you'll like the next Top 5 Reasons...

[K-DOGG]

The point of this is to help people like you who put the blame on these individuals to look at it from a different perspective. Sure there are reason's why he shouldn't have fought him, but he must have had some reason why he did it, and the point is to look at it from Muhammad's point of view.

Butterfly, I understand the perspective of which you speak; but when it's all said and done accountability must be reconned with....all men are accountable for their actions; and that list is a list of "excuses".


Fine, you can't blame Ali for wanting to be Ali one mo' time.....that's the same with every fighter. However, it doesn't erase the negatives which were overlooked in his thinking process, which outweigh any reasoning the man did. Ultimately, it was his life and his choice....and I personally don't blame Ali for doing what he wanted. It still doesn't mean it was the right or even the smart thing to do. I don't doubt he has no regrets; but that fight never should have happened...still, just as Tyson-Holmes, Charles-Louis, and Johnson-Jeffries, it had to....and, believe it or not, I do understand that.

[hayZ]

NICE i love reading these lil articles u write keep it up! although without all of those problems i reckon ali still was too old and would have lost.

[Cojimar 1945]

Ali return

The fight should not have happened. The fight did not make any sense at all and it is a tragedy that it went ahead. It does not affect Ali's legacy but it still seems like a very sad event.

[Verstyle]

i honestly thought it was the real 1 on espn until i read the title that butterfly wrote it

[butterfly1964]

i honestly thought it was the real 1 on espn until i read the title that butterfly wrote it

It was so good that you thought it was real, huh? Dang, I'm good!!!

[potatoes]

Maybe Ali shouldn't have fought, but he needed the money and lobbied for the fight. Ali was very good at garnering publicity and he quickly put Holmes in the untenable postion of being in a no win situation. Holmes was condemned for winning the fight and would have been condemned for losing.