Floyd Mayweater says he's the greatest but Ali did exhibition before he born Muhammad Ali laid the blue print down just saying the greatest ever lived in the sport of boxing RIP CHAMP 🙏🙏🙏🏆🏆🏆
I do remember the Antonio Inoki Exhibition Fight. The background story was this: the prelim fight was between another japanese wrestler & "The Real Rocky" Chuck Wepner. The fighr was ON, with very little rule modifications & restrictions. Wepner was wrestled and thrown 3 times like a ragdoll & game over! Ali's camp has to demand for a last second extreme rule changes realizing all the freedom of technique wrestling have vs. a 2-gloved handed fighter! If they had done it to Wepner, FOR SURE, Ali will fall on the same fate against the monster champion wrestler. Inoki will SURELY turn Ali like a ragdoll too! The demanded rules were approved at the last second to avoid inevitable humiliation to the 🌎 watching. When camp of Inoki was informed, the new rules were so restricting like he cannot grapplw, he cannot lift & carry Ali, he cannot basically use his arms or else he will be eliminated, what was left for the wrestler to do to avoid getting penalized is a no-choice to stay down on his back and fight with his legs & feet. This is the reason why he stayed down and since Ali cannot punch him in his face, all Ali can do was box the other guy's legs. This ridiculous turn out was actually to protect Ali from turning into a ragdoll & getting really hurt. Inoki's camp agreed because it was only minutes before the main event was to happen and they figured, OK, they don't want him to use his hands, then he'll just stay down on the canvass where Ali will NEVER make a hit on Inoki's head & body, and all the hitting will only really be coming Inoki's feet to Ali's legs. True enough, one of the most hyped exhibition fight turned out to be a dope & turkey with hilarious scenes of Ali jumping up to set his feet on the ropes to avoid those stinging kicks. This resulted to multiple blood clots on Ali's legs 🦵 and they were bad enough for Ali's MD to advice him to delay his flight ✈️ for another wk or so to have the clots dissolve first. If he rides a plane with those Acute DVTs in there, it could dislodge and becomes multiple embolism with the change of altitude & could travel to his lungs or heart and will kill him. It really didn't become a classic because it did not give justice to both sports and just turned into a circus, fiasco, & comedy!
@Stbeter I stand to be corrected. Yes, it was Wepner vs. André. From the Wrestler Observer: Andre The Giant vs. Chuck Wepner was the headliner of a then-WWWF pro wrestling card dubbed “Showdown at Shea,” promoted by Vince McMahon, Sr. The event was held at the then home of the New York Mets-Shea Stadium-in conjunction with the Muhammad Ali vs. Antonio Inoki bout, which was taking place at Budokan Hall in Tokyo. The two wrestler vs. boxer matches were marketed under the banner “War of the Worlds” and were shown live on closed circuit television across the US, and internationally, including in Canada and the UK. And then there are the words of the later-in-life Wepner, which are diametrically opposed to what he said at the time of the mixed match fight. Last year, Wepner stated in an interview with entertainment writer David Onda, “We met at a hotel and we practiced some of the moves, because it is, you know, show business. I talked them into letting him just throw me out of the ring, and then I don't make it back in. And that's what he did." And Wepner told Josh Gross in an interview for his 2016 book on Ali vs. Inoki, “Of course it was show business, so nobody was going to get seriously hurt.” Wepner also described to Gross the post-fight fracas which offers further evidence to the choreographed nature of the bout, and the entirely unchoreographed nature of what followed immediately after Wepner was counted out: “It got very heated. Some of the wrestlers were jumping into the ring. Gorilla Monsoon was throwing around guys like rag dolls. We were in there to put on a show and give them a good time. A real fight over this? It was crazy.” Much later analysis & interview of the fight with Wepner, he finally admitted that it was choreographed so that no one would really get hurt in the end. During that time, it was a well-kept secret so as not to disappoint the fans. However, when Ali's camp saw what was happening just a few hours before his fight is to start, they saw the what grim scenario that will surely befall the Legend (as Inoki hated and not submitting to a choreographed fight). They immediately pushed the last minute rule changes which basically restricted Inoki of any upper body freedom, thus the only thing he could do to avoid disqualification was staying on his back against the canvass and only use his legs. Thanks for the correction.
@@denniseudela411If I was Inoki's camp I am telling them there would be no such thing, they must be paid some serious money if they can agree to such humiliation in a last minute.
Inoki went at it for REAL with every intention to hurt Ali during the match. That's why Inoki stayed on his back on the floor 99% of the match, his plan was to take out Ali's legs and put him into a submission. Ali ended up going to the hospital for some serious leg damage soon after, but Ali put up a fight and Inoki didn't make him tap.
@@nikosalexopoulos8697 he did actually. he got a blood clot in his leg and they were worried that if it got worse they might actually have to amputate his leg!
Might be the only one to say it, but Muhammad was a classless POS at times....this press conference was one of those times. It's funny that he mocked how Foreman and Frazier spoke, because that's exactly how Ali sounded just a couple of years after the Inoki fight. Ali had tremendous courage, and had charisma at times, but he really talked like a POS at some of these press conferences.
Antonio Inoki showed a lot of quiet dignity listening to all of Ali's rants.
As if it wasn't all planned and part of the game 🙄
Probably only because he didn’t know English
What a showman. Rip to the greatest
And he learned that from watching Professional Wrestlers and tgheir matches, interviews and promos when he was growing up.
He makes my day memorable
Floyd Mayweater says he's the greatest but Ali did exhibition before he born Muhammad Ali laid the blue print down just saying the greatest ever lived in the sport of boxing RIP CHAMP 🙏🙏🙏🏆🏆🏆
Ali 🥊will always be more adored than Floyd even with less 💰
I do remember the Antonio Inoki Exhibition Fight.
The background story was this: the prelim fight was between another japanese wrestler & "The Real Rocky" Chuck Wepner. The fighr was ON, with very little rule modifications & restrictions. Wepner was wrestled and thrown 3 times like a ragdoll & game over!
Ali's camp has to demand for a last second extreme rule changes realizing all the freedom of technique wrestling have vs. a 2-gloved handed fighter!
If they had done it to Wepner, FOR SURE, Ali will fall on the same fate against the monster champion wrestler.
Inoki will SURELY turn Ali like a ragdoll too!
The demanded rules were approved at the last second to avoid inevitable humiliation to the 🌎 watching.
When camp of Inoki was informed, the new rules were so restricting like he cannot grapplw, he cannot lift & carry Ali, he cannot basically use his arms or else he will be eliminated, what was left for the wrestler to do to avoid getting penalized is a no-choice to stay down on his back and fight with his legs & feet.
This is the reason why he stayed down and since Ali cannot punch him in his face, all Ali can do was box the other guy's legs.
This ridiculous turn out was actually to protect Ali from turning into a ragdoll & getting really hurt.
Inoki's camp agreed because it was only minutes before the main event was to happen and they figured, OK, they don't want him to use his hands, then he'll just stay down on the canvass where Ali will NEVER make a hit on Inoki's head & body, and all the hitting will only really be coming Inoki's feet to Ali's legs.
True enough, one of the most hyped exhibition fight turned out to be a dope & turkey with hilarious scenes of Ali jumping up to set his feet on the ropes to avoid those stinging kicks.
This resulted to multiple blood clots on Ali's legs 🦵 and they were bad enough for Ali's MD to advice him to delay his flight ✈️ for another wk or so to have the clots dissolve first. If he rides a plane with those Acute DVTs in there, it could dislodge and becomes multiple embolism with the change of altitude & could travel to his lungs or heart and will kill him.
It really didn't become a classic because it did not give justice to both sports and just turned into a circus, fiasco, & comedy!
Wepner's opponent wasn't Japanese, he was French, because it was none other than Andre the Giant.
@Stbeter
I stand to be corrected.
Yes, it was Wepner vs. André.
From the Wrestler Observer:
Andre The Giant vs. Chuck Wepner was the headliner of a then-WWWF pro wrestling card dubbed “Showdown at Shea,” promoted by Vince McMahon, Sr. The event was held at the then home of the New York Mets-Shea Stadium-in conjunction with the Muhammad Ali vs. Antonio Inoki bout, which was taking place at Budokan Hall in Tokyo. The two wrestler vs. boxer matches were marketed under the banner “War of the Worlds” and were shown live on closed circuit television across the US, and internationally, including in Canada and the UK.
And then there are the words of the later-in-life Wepner, which are diametrically opposed to what he said at the time of the mixed match fight. Last year, Wepner stated in an interview with entertainment writer David Onda, “We met at a hotel and we practiced some of the moves, because it is, you know, show business. I talked them into letting him just throw me out of the ring, and then I don't make it back in. And that's what he did."
And Wepner told Josh Gross in an interview for his 2016 book on Ali vs. Inoki, “Of course it was show business, so nobody was going to get seriously hurt.”
Wepner also described to Gross the post-fight fracas which offers further evidence to the choreographed nature of the bout, and the entirely unchoreographed nature of what followed immediately after Wepner was counted out: “It got very heated. Some of the wrestlers were jumping into the ring. Gorilla Monsoon was throwing around guys like rag dolls. We were in there to put on a show and give them a good time. A real fight over this? It was crazy.”
Much later analysis & interview of the fight with Wepner, he finally admitted that it was choreographed so that no one would really get hurt in the end.
During that time, it was a well-kept secret so as not to disappoint the fans.
However, when Ali's camp saw what was happening just a few hours before his fight is to start, they saw the what grim scenario that will surely befall the Legend (as Inoki hated and not submitting to a choreographed fight).
They immediately pushed the last minute rule changes which basically restricted Inoki of any upper body freedom, thus the only thing he could do to avoid disqualification was staying on his back against the canvass and only use his legs.
Thanks for the correction.
@@denniseudela411If I was Inoki's camp I am telling them there would be no such thing, they must be paid some serious money if they can agree to such humiliation in a last minute.
@@nightwalkstreet9979
True.
Money fights and ALWAYS wins! 💰 💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰
Listen to what he says about mankind
Old Ali!!!!
Where on UA-cam is the video where he calls Inoki “The Pelican”?
Inoki went at it for REAL with every intention to hurt Ali during the match. That's why Inoki stayed on his back on the floor 99% of the match, his plan was to take out Ali's legs and put him into a submission. Ali ended up going to the hospital for some serious leg damage soon after, but Ali put up a fight and Inoki didn't make him tap.
Ali went to hospital with serious leg damage?!?!
Thats not true dude...Ali didnt go to the hospital, and he left the fight with some leg bruises only
@@nikosalexopoulos8697 he did actually. he got a blood clot in his leg and they were worried that if it got worse they might actually have to amputate his leg!
this fight shortend his career, I'm not surprised
@@nikosalexopoulos8697 he did... He is not thanos, he is human
Inoki also did it because too many last minute rule changes handicapped him. I'm guessing he took out his frustrations about it on Ali's legs.
He could be really mean sometimes lol but the things is about Ali he doesn’t give a damn and that’s why people love him
GOLD HAHA
Still making fun of Frazier. Joe never forgave Ali for calling him a gorilla.
Might be the only one to say it, but Muhammad was a classless POS at times....this press conference was one of those times.
It's funny that he mocked how Foreman and Frazier spoke, because that's exactly how Ali sounded just a couple of years after the Inoki fight. Ali had tremendous courage, and had charisma at times, but he really talked like a POS at some of these press conferences.
Mmm
1:35 - Did Ali used drugs???
No!
@@iamtman1 NEVER!! EVER EVER ....NOR DID HE DRINK!!!
Most just automatically assume that shit about anyone who's not a boring, lifeless conformist