The greatest fighter of all time!

[AzaThoth]

Only one fighter is referred to as "The Greatest", and that is the former Cassius Clay.

Longhorn85 your statement is fundamentally correct.

The quondam (quondam means former) Cassius Marcellus Clay is presently known as Muhammed Ali and was named "Fighter of the Year" (not boxer of the year) by RING MAGAZINE more times than any other fighter.

Muhammed Ali, the "former Cassius Clay" was involved in more RING MAGAZINE "Fight of the Year " bouts than any other fighter.
He is regarded as the greatest Heavyweight champion of all time.

Your post does not suggest at all that Cassius Clay is deceased.

You did not say the "late" Cassius Clay.

You said "the former Cassius Clay". You were and still are absolutely right to say "the former Cassius Clay".

The header to this thread reads: The Greatest Fighter of all time.

Muhammed Ali (the former Cassius Clay), Mike Tyson and George Foreman are on this list.

They are boxers. Boxing is fighting with the fists. Boxers ARE fighters.

I found the post immediately subsequent to your's, #72, to be nothing but pejorative, obfuscating tripe, and unjustifiably so.

I can only think that you chose to ignore the self-righteous oaf's remarks probably for the same reason that I ignore just about everything.




OBESITY POLLUTES THE AESTHETIC ENVIRONMENT- Cloris Leachman 1975.

 

[Anthony Starks]

and was named "Fighter of the Year" (not boxer of the year) by RING MAGAZINE more times than any other fighter.

Ring Magazine is a boxing magazine - what non-boxing fighters have won awards in there? And are you really ignorant enough to think that any boxer, let alone one from another time where conditioning and diet were far behind would be able to hold there own in a no holds barred fight?

 

[Saintinistic]

The winner here would have to be well rounded in approach. Just boxing in itself doesnt cut it unless its a boxing match.

Some of the best fightersI have seen locally are in jail now, and probably will stay there due to continued violent acts against humanity. Not poster boys for the fighting arts, but violent technicians to the point of insanity. Not asthetically pleasing to the eye, but they are effective in survival.

Better suited to battlefields of Rome than rings. but not boxing, no, not on its own. there has to be more

 

[abomb]

Tyson would get owned if the fight ever went to the mat.

But, stand up.....Better watch your ass. I don't care who it is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMrYmshl82Y&mode=related&search= \

 

[jeepboi]

i gotta go with tyson for one reason and that its all out brawl no rules street fight.

he is/was a beast and fucking crazy!

In a match Fedor.

 

[AzaThoth]

Ring Magazine is a boxing magazine - what non-boxing fighters have won awards in there? And are you really ignorant enough to think that any boxer, let alone one from another time where conditioning and diet were far behind would be able to hold there own in a no holds barred fight?

Post number 42 is one of nine posts that you have made on this thread.

Post #42 by anthony starks: "Wow, I would think people on a MMA forum would be more educated".

Quote: And are you ignorant enough to think that any boxer...would hold their own in (a no holds barred fight)?

"A no holds barred fight"??

The first post on this thread is "Who gets your vote.This is in a NO RULES, BARE KNUCKLE, all out STREETFIGHT"...

This thread IS NOT about NHB (no holds barred).
You ARE NOT going to make this thread about NHB.
AND, you ARE NOT going to make my post about NHB.

You misread post number one.
You misread my post.
My post means exactly what I wrote.

Longhorn85 said "Only one fighter is referred to as "The Greatest", and that is the former Cassius Clay".
I don't care if he was being serious or if he said it in jest.
I said that his statement is fundamentally correct and IT IS!

Go ahead, Google "the greatest". Only one name comes up from this list, Muhammed Ali, "the former Cassius Clay".
Longhorn85's post is a verifiable statement.
It is substantiated by historical data. It is documented.
It is exactly what I said it is.

The stipulation from post number one makes the title of this thread "The Greatest Fighter of all time", purely speculative, non historic and not applicable.

The first guy on the list is dead.
Since you facetiously mentioned "condition and diet" of the older individuals on this list you might want to explain to the "uneducated" what kind of a nutrition and training program the dead follow.

Quote: Ring Magazine is a boxing magazine - what non-boxing fighters are in there?

Your sarcasm is a poorly disguised insinuation BUT you still had to use the word "fighters" to get it said.
How delightfully ironic.
Fighters is the key word.
RING MAGAZINE is a fighters magazine.
It makes perfect sense to me and to anyone that reads on an adult level that a fighters magazine about boxing does not feature non-boxers.

It is because you have the comprehensive reading skills of a ten year old that you're too ignorant to know that my post IS NOT about boxing either.
It's about "the greatest".

Now that I have educated you, "End Of Discussion", ( and for the reading impaired that means "End Of Discussion".)





WOW, I WOULD THINK THAT PEOPLE ON A MMA FORUM WOULD BE MORE EDUCATED - anthony starks

 

[Anthony Starks]

wow, looks like someone got picked on a little too much in high school...

 

[Djimbe]

AzaThoth :

You school yourself in your own argument .

MArketing Ploys =/= reality .

 

[redsamurai]

stupid topic to begin with......should not have gone this many pages. I mean.....bruce lee is getting most of the votes?? Seriously? Who's seen Bruce fight legitimately? I've seen no tapes of bruce lee fighting someone for real......ever!! Not saying the guy couldn't fight.....but just because he intro'd chinese martial arts to america does not make him the greatest ever. You can't compare half these people who are choices. Ali?....greatest boxer yes, fighter? Did he fight MMA fights that I don't know about? Can you compare him with fedor? I mean....it's just a pedantic discussion. A more apt topic would be "who's YOUR favorite fighter of all time in any discipline?".......in which case I would probably still pick Fedor...

 

[Anthony Starks]

I think the most annoying thing about the thread is that people still keep picking Bruce Lee in the poll (bumping the thread to the top in the process) but leaving no explanation for their choice. At least have the balls to back it up.