Word: holmeses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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It was supposed to be Muhammad All's last hurrah, a final comeback to reclaim, at age 38, the heavyweight championship title he had won an unprecedented three separate times over two decades. It was, instead, a sad farewell. Too old, too slow, too punched-out, Ali was pummeled...
Ali had striven mightily to turn back the clock, coming out of a two-year retirement to train harder than ever. Since his defeat of Leon Spinks in the fall of 1978, Ali had ballooned to a blubbery 254 Ibs. But after he signed (for $8 million) to fight Holmes...
So Ali looked lean and fit-until he started to fight. Then it became clear that weight was perhaps the least of his problems. Age had robbed Ali of the speed that had been his hallmark. The dancing feet and lightning hands were slowed. He managed to land a few...
But those were all acts. The fight was show to remind us of Ali's fights in his youngers days, a collage of movements, shuffles and feints. Ali never seemed concerned about winning the fitht. He never tried to hurt Holmes.
Floyd Patterson was there in Ali's body, as Muthammad played peekaboo with Holmes in the early going. Kenny Norton was there when Ali would hold his arms horizontally across his face and lean back to avoid Holmes's blows. Even Joe Frazier entered Ali when, for a very strange...