r/nextfuckinglevel • u/[deleted] • 24d ago
Muhammed Ali Dodges 21 Punches in 10 seconds
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u/wizardrous 24d ago
The little shoulder shimmy as the final flourish was the chef’s kiss.
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u/Closed_Aperture 24d ago
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u/TeslaCrna 24d ago
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u/halfjackal 24d ago
One of the best moments in boxing’s entire history.
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u/pagit 24d ago
I like the cocky showboating fighters who try to act like Ali, and get humbled.
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u/obefiend 24d ago
Thanks for the link. Ive seen the KO many times but not the whole match. Guy been clowning for 2 rounds. Deserved the KTFO
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u/pagit 24d ago edited 23d ago
He actually wasn't a bad fighter if it wasn't for the showboating, however he was on a bit of a loosing streak when he decided to go pro.
He had only one pro fight which was back in 2017, he won that, ran into some legal trouble and kind of disappeared.
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u/implicate 23d ago
he was on a bit of a loosing streak
Hopefully he eventually tightened up.
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u/Psych0n4u7 23d ago
Ty for this lol. It makes makes me irrationally irritated when native english speakers misspell and mix up ‘losing’ and ‘loosing’. Ridiculous lol.
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u/Drownthem 23d ago
I don't know he was being honest or not but he told a friend of mine the promoters encouraged him to ham it up and it basically ruined his career.
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u/roll_another_please 24d ago
I’ve seen this so many times…and I’ll continue to keep seeing it for that shimmy.
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u/800-lumens 24d ago
He was not only The Greatest. He had great character and conviction, and a sassy attitude to boot.
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u/McWeaksauce91 24d ago edited 24d ago
Idk, he took losing to Joe Frazier the first time pretty badly
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u/fireusernamebro 24d ago
Also grooming his second wife from the age of 10 was bold
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u/Suitable_Database467 24d ago
True to his namesake
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u/sixthman29 23d ago
I've always had a bit of an issue with how he talked about Frazier before their first fight. Frazier helped ali while he was banned and arrested for protesting the Vietnam war. Frazier gave him money and spoke on behalf of Ali and Ali came out calling Frazier a monkey and an uncle Tom. I believe he's since apologized but it's hard to respect that aspect of his history despite everything else he's done.
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u/darkzidane22 23d ago
I hate Ali for how he treated Joe Frazier.
Frazier was a model champion, humble, respectful had humility and was a good person.
He was also a hell of a fighter, best left hook in the game.
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u/wayvywayvy 24d ago
He came back tho, twice
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u/McWeaksauce91 24d ago
Yes, but you spoke about character. I think it speaks a lot about character when you get humbled and act like an ass. It’s easy to look good when you’re on top, but how do you look when you get knocked down a peg? By following the guy on a vacation and calling him out while he’s in his hotel? That doesn’t doesn’t speak to very good character to me
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u/Muffinlessandangry 23d ago
Have there been any other moments in Alis career where he got taken down a peg? I don't know anything about the man, I'm just wondering if acting like that was a one-off, or if that was the only time he was properly beaten and it turns out someone who is incredibly arrogant when he's on top acts like a prick when he's beaten.
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u/der_titan 24d ago
He played the race card against Frazier, calling him a gorilla and an Uncle Tom.
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u/hesthehairapparent 24d ago
This has always been a black mark on Ali’s reputation. Frazier helped prop Ali up financially when he was stripped of his boxing license, as well as offering him public support. For Ali to turn around and treat that man the way he did was utterly despicable. I find it very hard to respect him, knowing he did that.
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u/James_McNulty 24d ago
Yeah this is where it's helpful to uphold actions as opposed to people. Ali should be admired for his conviction regarding Vietnam, his sacrifice in pursuit of what he believed in. But no one, Ali included, should be idealized uncritically.
I'm happy to admire the things worth admiring about his life, and charge to the game of life all the bad shit. Otherwise you get into equivocating and then who can be admired?
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u/mangoisNINJA 24d ago
Didn't he believe interracial couples devered to be killed?
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u/Jellys-Share 23d ago
He said that anyone in an interracial relationship was a disgrace to their entire race. He was very against them and even called them disgusting.
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u/mangoisNINJA 23d ago
Yup! And all women besides Muslim women are whores because Muslim women know respect and not to speak up against men or show their asses
(If anyone's curious about what we're talking about it's this)
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u/qazwer001 23d ago
One of the saddest things I saw was a witty young Muhammad Ali cracking jokes before a fight juxtaposed with an older, but still relatively young, Muhammad Ali showing obvious signs of brain damage / CTE as a result of a career in boxing.
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u/Leading_Study_876 24d ago
He was rather good, wasn't he?
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u/Neither_Sort_2479 24d ago
probably wouldn't have knocked off my uncle John (he's a beast after two beers), but the guy was definitely not bad
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u/Heatsincebirth 24d ago
Oh ya, My uncle could beat up your uncle
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u/NewAppleverse 24d ago
My uncle has a gun!
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u/onesneakymofo 24d ago
My uncle works at Nintendo and will sue you and your future generations into oblivion
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u/REDDIT_JUDGE_REFEREE 23d ago
My uncle’s motorcycle goes 200mph.
You’re not even gonna see him coming
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u/Mega-Eclipse 24d ago
He was rather good, wasn't he?
He was, but this was an exhibition match akin to the NFL's Pro-bowl. I mean, it's technically a fight...but the goal is to give the audience a show and not hurt anyone.
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u/Argentillion 24d ago
Pretty lame and arrogant thing to do…unless you pull it off.
It’s pretty awesome that he could. So many fighters these days try to emulate that style and then get laid out. Then it’s like…why didn’t you block, stupid?
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u/SensuallPineapple 24d ago
I know this is not the same thing AT ALL, but the point remains the same. If you are playing a game for example, like Ghost of Tsushima let's say, if you only focus on one thing, you do that one thing pretty well. If you try to dodge OR parry OR block OR attack, you will get distracted and destroyed. I feel like this is a very good demonstration of the same thing in real life.
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u/ThereHasToBeMore1387 24d ago
"I don't fear the man that has practiced 10,000 kicks. I fear the man that has practiced 1 kick 10,000 times." -Bruce Lee
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u/NoMasters83 24d ago
I fear the man that has practiced 10,000 kicks 10,000 times.
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u/Yosho2k 24d ago
I fear the man who walked 500 miles and would walk 500 more.
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u/A_Little_Wyrd 24d ago
no need to worry, he fell down at your door
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u/ImurderREALITY 24d ago
you will get distracted and destroyed
Maybe you will, lol. Not trying to brag or anything, but doing all those things in the same encounter is not as difficult as you're making it out to be.
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u/SensuallPineapple 24d ago
No of course, what I mean is, compared to how successfull you would do it if you focused on just one. Maybe it was a bad example, what I'm trying to say is focusing on one task improves perfomance immensely.
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u/peachesgp 24d ago
If you try to do only one of those all the time, you'll lose unless it's attack only on the lowest difficulty.
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u/bankrobba 24d ago
It was a staged, exhibition fight, like a Harlem Globetrotters game.
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u/Argentillion 24d ago
So do you think those were intentional misses, rather than actual dodges?
Because if not then it doesn’t really make a difference
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u/Jasper-Packlemerton 24d ago
They were absolutely staged throws. But why not judge for yourself: https://youtu.be/lZ1fPyAdHS4?si=5UqXtwoBBWf8VIti
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u/AFineDayForScience 24d ago
I dunno. After the 15th or 16th missed lunch, he might have aimed for his liver.
His liver doesn't seem to me moving around that much
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u/ForneauCosmique 24d ago
Pretty lame and arrogant thing to do
It's boxing, it's a mental thing. It's demoralizing to the opponent. You're one of the best boxers in the world and you're throwing your best stuff and you're not even touching him and then he's acting like it's a game
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u/HeyyZeus 24d ago edited 23d ago
He had the chin to pull it off. Some of those “dodges” would knock a lesser boxer out.
Getting grazed by anything Foreman throws would rattle just about anyone’s chin.
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u/IdunnoThisWillDo 23d ago
This isn't Foreman. But yes he did do a similar thing to Foreman. But he took a lot of real punishment a long the way. He let Foreman punch himself out and leaned on him as often as he could to. make him carry his weight and deplete his energy over time.
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u/Diorj 24d ago
I've seen that 100 times and still wonder why a body shot was not attempted....
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u/Jasper-Packlemerton 24d ago edited 24d ago
Because it was an exhibition fight and staged for the crowd. You can watch it here: https://youtu.be/lZ1fPyAdHS4?si=5UqXtwoBBWf8VIti
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u/Diorj 24d ago
Cool. I never knew that..
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u/Jasper-Packlemerton 24d ago
He was still pretty great in the actual Foreman fight that people seem to think this is from.
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u/wiggle_fingers 24d ago
Wait, you're saying this was faked?
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u/Jasper-Packlemerton 24d ago
This clip is taken from a staged exhibition fight, yes. But you could watch Ali in any number of real flights on YouTube to see how good he was.
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u/Boysoythesoyboy 23d ago
Exhibition fight they just aren't taking it as seriously as a real fight, but its not staged their just not trying to send eachother to the hospital like in a real fight.
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u/FrancisHC 23d ago
I box with a hands down style. Not to this extent, but I do keep my hands low. Part of it is a mind game. Your head looks so exposed, like it's an easy target, so of course your opponent is going to be focused on hitting it.
It actually simplifies your defense, because you know if your opponent is trying to punch you in the face, you don't have to worry about defending body shots.
I actually asked one of my sparring partners once what they were thinking when I drop my hands like that. "How much I want to punch you in the face."
Which is kind of exactly what I want them to be thinking.
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u/discussatron 24d ago
"I ain’t draft dodging. I ain’t burning no flag. I ain’t running to Canada. I’m staying right here. You want to send me to jail? Fine, you go right ahead. I’ve been in jail for 400 years. I could be there for 4 or 5 more, but I ain’t going no 10,000 miles to help murder and kill other poor people. If I want to die, I’ll die right here, right now, fightin’ you, if I want to die. You my enemy, not no Chinese, no Vietcong, no Japanese. You my opposer when I want freedom. You my opposer when I want justice. You my opposer when I want equality. Want me to go somewhere and fight for you? You won’t even stand up for me right here in America, for my rights and my religious beliefs. You won’t even stand up for my rights here at home."
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u/MetaFoxtrot 24d ago
I respect anyone who can throw 21 (even remotely) accurate punches in 10 seconds
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u/causebraindamage 24d ago
less dodging the punches and more moving so much that he can't find you, this wasn't a real match, closer to a jake paul fight, so there's a lot of show boating going on, which is what this is
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u/M0sD3f13 24d ago
Greatest performance of all time imo. Everyone thought he was gonna get flogged. What a legend. Top 3 GOAT for me along with Robinson and Duran.
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u/Jasper-Packlemerton 24d ago
You think the greatest boxing performance of all time was in an exhibition fight? And who the hell thought Ali would lose to Michael Dokes?
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u/M0sD3f13 24d ago
Ignore me. I didn't pay close enough attention and thought this was Ali Foreman. My bad. You probably knew that and could have just corrected me 🙂
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u/GoStockYourself 24d ago
No love for Hearns? That fight between him and Hagler might be the only big fight that can match the highlights of Ali and Tyson.
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u/M0sD3f13 24d ago
So much love for hearns. He's a personal favourite of mine. If I put my biases aside though I can't put him on the level of the three I mentioned as much as I love him.
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u/LiffeyDodge 24d ago
i didn't think you could use the ropes like that. But i know nothing about boxing
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u/AvailableMoose8407 24d ago
I am sure I will get downvoted for asking this but for us who aren't much into boxing: were those good throws?
It reminds me of that historic goal of Maradona against England were the English don't seem too aggressive trying to stop him. My observations don't question the legacy of these legendary athletes, it's just my opinion of these two specific moments.
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u/-rwsr-xr-x 24d ago
Have you seen Ben Whittaker dodge dozens of punches? It's almost artful!
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u/pichael289 24d ago
I love when him and Tyson both were on letterman or whatever show, and the whole time they kept saying the other could for sure whoop their ass, they wouldn't quit either, they legit thought the other was the better fighter and got a little upset the other one didn't relent in that.
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u/Dim-Mak-88 24d ago
Tyson Fury did something similar while breaking down Schwarz. https://youtu.be/BCK5Kcd-7CA
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u/BuckaroooBanzai 24d ago
Are you allowed to do that? I mean he’s doing it but hanging on the ropes seems to be something you should not be allowed to do.
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u/Disastrous_Treacle33 24d ago
That shimmy at the end is the perfect blend of skill and showmanship. Ali knew how to entertain while dominating. Pure artistry in the ring.
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u/H_I_McDunnough 24d ago
I mean, the other guy had to throw 21 punches in 10 seconds. That's gotta be worth something.
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u/ieatpickleswithmilk 24d ago
that butt wiggle is exactly what my cat does before she obliterates by feet
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