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Anonymous
Why is Ali number 2 on Fox Sports "10 Greatest Athletes of All Time" list instead or Rocky Marciano?

Muhammad Ali gets more credit than he deserves if you ask me.

http://msn.foxsports.com/olympics/pgStory?contentId=8442474&MSNHPHCP?GT1=39002#sport=Olympics&am
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>> Anonymous
Because one of them only looked good because he was around when boxing was filled with C-grade fighters. Keep on crying those tears, rockymarcianofag.
>> Anonymous
>>258965
This generation, age and time, yes, they will remember Ali more than greater boxers like Willie Pep, Ray Robinson, and Joe Louis, but that has nothing to do with the "greatest of all time" or even top 10. But to answer your question, yes Ali was very good at selling the sport and hyping up bouts, but even before that boxing was very popular alongside baseball.
>> Anonymous
>>258998
lol uh no, Ali's generation had most of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time. If he was surrounded by C-class fighters then he wouldn't be considered as great as the competition he actually fought.
>> Anonymous
>>258976
>>258984
>>258991
samefag
>> Black ? Star !x8ngkAZjXE
>>259017
he was talking about rocky not ali.
>> Anonymous
>>258998
So you're saying that Rocky wasn't skilled at all?
>> Black ? Star !x8ngkAZjXE
>>259042

saying all he beat was c-grade fighters.

Which was true.
>> Anonymous
>>259058
Bullshit. For their time he beat what was the top tier.
>> Black ? Star !x8ngkAZjXE
>>259061
which was c-level compared to the competition Ali faced.

Same for tyson as his opponents just wasn't up to par.
>> Anonymous
Lance Armstrong isn't top ten caliber?
>> Anonymous
Lists are retarded. But anyway, why is there a fucking woman on that list? PC bullshit.
>> Anonymous
>>259070
That pissed me off, too.
>> Anonymous
>>259070
I can see people saying "riding a bike isn't a sport".
>> Anonymous
>>259065
Rocky faced a majority of people who shit compared to him. Ali faced a majority of people who were shit compared to him. Tyson faced a majority of people who were shit compared to him.

All were fantastic for their time, but Ali could beat probably beat any boxer from Rocky's time, and Tyson could probably beat any boxer from Ali's time.

But after all that, Rocky is the only one above who was undefeated. That's count to count for something.
>> Black ? Star !x8ngkAZjXE
>>259098
wrong

Ali's time boxing was at it's prime and the boxers he faced were thought of as SUPERIOR to him.

No way tyson beats a prime Foreman, Fraiser, Ali or Liston when he didn't even beat a good fighter in his time in Holyfield or lewis.

Stop buying into hype.
>> Anonymous
>>259098
I'd like to see rocky face sonny liston, joe frazier, george foreman, ken norton, floyd patterson, jerry quarry, and larry holmes, and see if he comes out undefeated
>> Anonymous
There is only four white people on that list.

Racist.
>> Anonymous
>>259083

Anything that requires physical endurance in a competitive way is a sport.
>> Anonymous
>>259134
Nigra, Nigra, Nigra, Nigra, Nigra, Green-Nigras, Nigra.