![]() ![]() ![]() His mouth, much like his mind, was always moving. He had that look in his eyes, like he was saying 'I'm not going to let you hurt me.'"Īli would take all that Foreman had, opening up his body and welcoming Big George to come into his embrace. "Anybody else in the world would have crumbled. "What I remember most about the fight was, I went out and hit Muhammad with the hardest shot to the body I ever delivered to any opponent," Foreman later told Ali's biographer Thomas Hauser in Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times. ![]() Instead of wilting before the storm, like a great sequoia Ali bent, leaning back into the loose ring ropes, avoiding the worst of Foreman's fury, gritting his teeth and bearing that which he could not dodge. On a mission, he believed from God himself, Ali withstood Foreman's offense. Howard Cosell, mesmerized by what he had seen, shouted over and over "Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier."īut Ali was no ordinary mortal. This was the onslaught that felled the great Joe Frazier, sending Ali's first conqueror flying around the ring and spawning the most iconic call in boxing history. This was why he threw hundreds of punches in succession during training, each one thudding into the heavy bag, each one designed to daze and destroy. This was what Foreman prepared for, endlessly chopping wood and training partners in equal measure in the months leading up to the fight. ![]()
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