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Originally Posted by Relentless
Here is what happened when Muhammed Ali decided to let Antonio Inoki kick his legs for 15 rounds...
The Joke That Almost Ended Ali?s Career
Bleeding legs, infections, almost has to have a leg amputated and according to boxing historians Ali's career was never able to recover. He threw a couple of punches during the entire match because he has no take down defense, no ground game, no concept of how to check kicks and his hands were neutralized by the position of the fighters being dictated by Inoki the entire time... |
That article is pure BS. Ali's ignorance and arrogance and ignoring the blood clots he had in his legs fucked him up.. not the retarded kicks that clown was throwing.
He wasn't beat by skill or hurt by effective kicks. You can watch the youtube Ali/Inoki video... then compare that to ANY random muay thai fight between two decent fighters and see what actual leg kicks look like, and how many get thrown in a real fight.
I just watched that Ali fight and it was completely silly and a total waste of time. Nothing happened and even the crowd was chanting "money back, money back".
And for the record...Who was Bruce Lee? He was an actor and a lightweight. Just a random guy who invented his own fighting style based loosely on what he grew up with, promoted it and has really only fought in movies and in myths and legends. Thinking he can pull off any effective techniques against a rabid, heavy handed and borderline psychotic heavy weight boxer that moved and punched with the speed of a middle weight is not realistic. Anyone that is not delusional in martial arts knows that the advantage will usually go to experience, not technique/style. Experience being a career of actual fighting, actual constant live sparring and actual live fights. Chinese styles are laughable. Thats why the Chinese military created a version of Sanshou which is basically Chinese boxing (similar to Muay Thai) with take downs and throws... and they didn't waste their time trying to teach military the endless litany of ineffective techniques, stances and movements that are prevalent in all traditional Chinese martial arts. Bruce Lee's who thing was that traditional Chinese martial arts were silly and impractical in almost every aspect.