{"id":6648,"date":"2014-04-30T20:50:48","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T20:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgethomasclark.com\/?p=6648"},"modified":"2016-06-09T18:15:47","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T18:15:47","slug":"ali-challenges-klitschko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgethomasclark.com\/ali-challenges-klitschko\/","title":{"rendered":"Ali Drinks Klitschko Kool-Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"
I was the greatest and will be again. Don\u2019t deny I can do it. I\u2019m drinking Klitschko Kool-Aid secretly provided by Wladimir\u2019s diabolical team of scientists who will only let me partake until I\u2019m at my former peak, and no higher. That would be in 1967 when I was the prettiest and fastest heavyweight who ever lived, and now I\u2019m almost there again. <\/p>\n
\tI\u2019ve got to do something. Some people are trying to destroy my legacy. They\u2019re saying I primarily fought little guys and make a big deal that at age twenty-one I had a close fight with talented but smaller Doug Jones. Listen, every guy who ever fought had some tough nights. Klitschko at twenty-two was stopped by Ross Puritty, a bum who had thirteen loses. You think Ross Puritty would\u2019ve done that to me? When I was the same age I beat Sonny Liston, made him quit, and became heavyweight champion of the world. Next to me Sonny was the baddest man on earth and would\u2019ve sent China-chin Klitschko to dreamland. <\/p>\n
\tSo what\u2019s with these white fans disrespecting me and claiming Wladimir Klitschko is the greatest in history? I still think many of them are mad at me for busting up so many white fighters. That\u2019s not being racial. That\u2019s a fact. I had a hundred wars but was never really pressed by any white. Who? People shout that Henry Cooper knocked me down our first fight. The guy had a good left hook but I got right up and busted him up the next round and split him open our next fight. <\/p>\n
\tThat\u2019s the problem, isn\u2019t it, along with saying I wouldn\u2019t go to Vietnam to kill people who\u2019d never called me nigger? Twice I played with great white hope Jerry Quarry, who like Cooper was just too small, and finished him with ease. A big white hope, Joe Bugner, went the distance with me two times but he couldn\u2019t hit and I dominated him. You may not like it, but only the brothers challenged me. Joe Frazier even beat me once, though I reversed that twice, once by technical knockout. Ken Norton also beat me once, and Earnie Shavers right-handed me onto queer street before I pounded him in the fifteenth and won the decision. Look me in the eye and say Wladimir Klitschko would still be standing after eating a bunch of right hands from Shavers. And tell me Klitschko would\u2019ve knocked out big George Foreman. <\/p>\n
\tListen, I\u2019m not disrespecting anyone. I understood Frazier, Norton, and Foreman were very dangerous. And I know the same about Wladimir Klitschko. He\u2019s one of the best ever and I\u2019m happy a white man\u2019s gotten so good. That\u2019s why I\u2019m training hard. I want to be ready. I just hope they don\u2019t give him more Klitschko Kool-Aid than I get.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was the greatest and will be again. Don\u2019t deny I can do it. I\u2019m drinking Klitschko Kool-Aid secretly provided by Wladimir\u2019s diabolical team of scientists who will only let me partake until I\u2019m at my former peak, and no higher. That would be in 1967 when I was the prettiest and fastest heavyweight who…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,967,467,171,1002,170,1012,998],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"\n