Jim Lampley

That was his best.

Yes.

But he didn't train for three years.

That's part of the problem.

And, you know, at 30 years old in that day and age, it was just a different world.

You don't train for three years.

Yeah, it's just they just robbed him.

They robbed us, too, because he came back and he's a different fighter than he was much more easy to hit.

And, you know, he became, you know, he relied on his chin more.

And, you know, he didn't have the fleet of foot movement that he had before then.

Well, the championship mind was always there.

That's 100% correct.

But as a fan of boxing, it drives me crazy.

Because you imagine what we could have seen in those three years if Ali had never been robbed, never took his title away, and allowed him to fight all those guys like Joe Frazier, George Foreman, all those guys with keeping the same skills that he had when he was younger.

Oh for sure Yeah, and then also the tragic ending, you know, the the staying in too long and too many beatings, you know the the Just the seeing him at the end of his life was just so horrible, you know And we all know that that was trauma induced We all know that and it's just it was just sad to see we haven't seen that yet in MMA, right?

No, not quite, but you're seeing some damage.

I

You're seeing some guys that are really struggling.

They're not as public, so you're not seeing it from a George St.

Pierre or someone like that.