Muhammad Ali, "Umm Marciano... Marciano, umm, phew, ooh he hit hard. He hit you so hard *unrecognizable* folks in Africa." Cosell, "But you think you could have beaten him too?" Ali, "Well it a been rough, look Howard, I don't take nothing from these fellas especially those deceased. Marciano and I were good friends, but I truly think on my best day and his best day I would have beaten him, probably not knocked him out, I been sore, I think he was better than Joe Frazier I'd put it that way. I truly think he was better than Joe Frazier. I think it be even, he may have won - it's just hard, it's just up to the imagination. Cosell, " You know you started out with so much braggadocio, now you're ending with humility." Ali, "Yea, you got the last man Marciano. Showing him last, you did the right thing. He wasn't as great as me, wasn't as beautiful everyone knows that. But I don't know if I would have beat him with his style and my style. He could've out-pointed me, could've knocked me down. Did a computer fight with him when he was an old man just pretending and my arms were so sore just for joking with him. In his heyday he may have won, he probably wouldn't... that's up for the imagination. In the end I still think I'm the greatest of all time!" Later, in part 6 Ali flips a script saying that *"a prime Louis, Walcott, Moore, and Charles would've beat Marciano."* He then goes on to his usual *"I'm the greatest"* after part 6. ((( *Why was the most important part removed?? Ali said, "a prime Louis, Walcott, Moore, and Charles would've beat Marciano"!!!* ))) ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS {MUHAMMAD ALI VERSUS THE GREATEST HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONS OF ALL TIME; DAYTONA 500} Summary: This edition concludes the segment "Muhammad Ali versus the Greatest Heavyweight Champions of All Time" in which Howard Cosell and Muhammad Ali discuss the careers of great boxers. In this final portion, Cosell, with world heavyweight champion Ali at Ali's Deer Lake, Pa., training camp, discusses fight films involving these fighters: Joe Louis, Max Schmeling, Billy Conn, Ezzard Charles, Pat Valentino, and Jersey Joe Walcott. Dave Diles reports with a sports news update on the final lap of the Daytona 500 automobile race as Bill Flemming narrates the tape of the finish. Ali and Cosell resume their discussion of fight films involving the following fighters: Joe Louis, Jersey Joe Walcott, Ezzard Charles, and Rocky Marciano. ABC February 15, 1976 Sunday 8 ½ hrs. (Dave Diles explains the entire 8 ½ hrs. coverage *@ 1976 Daytona 500 - ABC Wide World of Sports coverage* from NascarAllOut) ((( Moral of the story is so much of what Ali actually said about Rocky has been removed!!! This valuable information has been suppressed for 48 years!!! Imagine all the uploaders that have been entering incorrect information for decades!!! Y'all can order copies *@ Archival Television Audio Inc.* just type in Muhammad Ali )))
Muhammad Ali, "Umm Marciano... Marciano, umm, phew, ooh he hit hard. He hit you so hard *unrecognizable* folks in Africa."
Cosell, "But you think you could have beaten him too?"
Ali, "Well it a been rough, look Howard, I don't take nothing from these fellas especially those deceased. Marciano and I were good friends, but I truly think on my best day and his best day I would have beaten him, probably not knocked him out, I been sore, I think he was better than Joe Frazier I'd put it that way. I truly think he was better than Joe Frazier. I think it be even, he may have won - it's just hard, it's just up to the imagination.
Cosell, " You know you started out with so much braggadocio, now you're ending with humility."
Ali, "Yea, you got the last man Marciano. Showing him last, you did the right thing. He wasn't as great as me, wasn't as beautiful everyone knows that. But I don't know if I would have beat him with his style and my style. He could've out-pointed me, could've knocked me down. Did a computer fight with him when he was an old man just pretending and my arms were so sore just for joking with him. In his heyday he may have won, he probably wouldn't... that's up for the imagination. In the end I still think I'm the greatest of all time!"
Later, in part 6 Ali flips a script saying that *"a prime Louis, Walcott, Moore, and Charles would've beat Marciano."* He then goes on to his usual *"I'm the greatest"* after part 6. ((( *Why was the most important part removed?? Ali said, "a prime Louis, Walcott, Moore, and Charles would've beat Marciano"!!!* )))
ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS {MUHAMMAD ALI VERSUS THE GREATEST HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONS OF ALL TIME; DAYTONA 500}
Summary:
This edition concludes the segment "Muhammad Ali versus the Greatest Heavyweight Champions of All Time" in which Howard Cosell and Muhammad Ali discuss the careers of great boxers.
In this final portion, Cosell, with world heavyweight champion Ali at Ali's Deer Lake, Pa., training camp, discusses fight films involving these fighters: Joe Louis, Max Schmeling, Billy Conn, Ezzard Charles, Pat Valentino, and Jersey Joe Walcott. Dave Diles reports with a sports news update on the final lap of the Daytona 500 automobile race as Bill Flemming narrates the tape of the finish. Ali and Cosell resume their discussion of fight films involving the following fighters: Joe Louis, Jersey Joe Walcott, Ezzard Charles, and Rocky Marciano.
ABC February 15, 1976 Sunday 8 ½ hrs.
(Dave Diles explains the entire 8 ½ hrs. coverage *@ 1976 Daytona 500 - ABC Wide World of Sports coverage* from NascarAllOut)
((( Moral of the story is so much of what Ali actually said about Rocky has been removed!!! This valuable information has been suppressed for 48 years!!! Imagine all the uploaders that have been entering incorrect information for decades!!! Y'all can order copies *@ Archival Television Audio Inc.* just type in Muhammad Ali )))