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cross_trainer
07-10-2007, 03:18 PM
If Ali was one of seven identical brothers, all of them made a career of boxing, and all of them had top trainers...how many would end up all time greats?
McGrain
07-10-2007, 03:21 PM
Cross_Trainer, are you some sort of evil genius?
cross_trainer
07-10-2007, 03:22 PM
Cross_Trainer, are you some sort of evil genius?

BWAHAHAhaha..err...no, of course not. What would give you that impression?
TBooze
07-10-2007, 03:24 PM
If Ali was one of seven identical brothers, all of them made a career of boxing, and all of them had top trainers...how many would end up all time greats?

I would feel very sorry for Odessa Grady Clay if she gave birth to seven future 15 stone + men on the same day:tired
McGrain
07-10-2007, 03:28 PM
BWAHAHAhaha..err...no, of course not. What would give you that impression?

:D

Well you're always asking about steroid treatments, clones, the chaos theory...you're not genetically engineering a horrible army are you? An Ali army?

Can you imagine the f*cking noise?
cross_trainer
07-10-2007, 03:32 PM
:D

Well you're always asking about steroid treatments, clones, the chaos theory...you're not genetically engineering a horrible army are you? An Ali army?

Can you imagine the f*cking noise?

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McGrain
07-10-2007, 03:36 PM
Bit of a worry really...

The origonal question!

Not in my opinion, no.

Will the answer "everyone is different do"? Please?
cross_trainer
07-10-2007, 03:40 PM
Bit of a worry really...

The origonal question!

Not in my opinion, no.

Will the answer "everyone is different do"? Please?

Henry Cooper was the inspiration for this thread. It's always interesting to me, considering how often we harp on the physical and genetic qualities of each fighter, when one twin does significantly better than the other. Talk about X-factor.
DaveTheWave
07-10-2007, 03:43 PM
It would be the most obnoxious division ever. And the most competitive... Seven brothers, come on!
McGrain
07-10-2007, 03:43 PM
Henry Cooper was the inspiration for this thread. It's always interesting to me, considering how often we harp on the physical and genetic qualities of each fighter, when one twin does significantly better than the other. Talk about X-factor.

I absolutlely agree with you. But when you are talking about the absolute peak of something - in this case physicality, as it is employed in boxing - it's all X factor. Or at least, predominantly.

So sticking with Ali, what he had in physicality and genetics would carry him through his first reign as champ.

But only "IT" would carry him through the second.
DaveTheWave
07-10-2007, 03:45 PM
I think it would monopolize the top ten all-time heavy lists everywhere- Think about it; seven brothers in the top ten? That doesn't leave much room for many of the other greats...
McGrain
07-10-2007, 03:47 PM
I think it would monopolize the top ten all-time heavy lists everywhere- Think about it; seven brothers in the top ten? That doesn't leave much room for many of the other greats...

As were on the insane subject, which other three would you go with?

I got Louis, Liston and Johnson in there with them.
DaveTheWave
07-10-2007, 04:15 PM
I just think we should make three Joe Frazier brothers and sit back, drink a cold one, and watch...
ThePlugInBabies
07-10-2007, 04:23 PM
can you imagine the press conferences and mind games when two of the brothers got it on? sod princes naz's entrance v kevin kelley, this truely would be the end of civilization as we know it.
Butch Coolidge
07-10-2007, 07:03 PM
phillip holliday has a twin brother who wasn't much of a boxer.
achillesthegreat
07-11-2007, 03:16 AM
Cross Trainer, do you do drugs, like ALL the time!?
China_hand_Joe
07-11-2007, 06:24 AM
If Ali was one of seven identical brothers, all of them made a career of boxing, and all of them had top trainers...how many would end up all time greats?1-2-ish, the others would just live in their shadow from childhood onwards.
Mendoza
07-11-2007, 08:25 AM
If Ali was one of seven identical brothers, all of them made a career of boxing, and all of them had top trainers...how many would end up all time greats?

Only the one! It would be the one who had his bicycle stolen as a youth, and noticed a boxing poster at the police station when filing a complaint. Angry about his bicycle being stolen, the young boy named Classic Clay followed the address on the poster to the boxing gym. Clay’s purpose to learn boxing was just in case he ever meets the man who stole his bicycle. Without this random event of bad luck, there is no Ali.
Boggle
11-30-2011, 05:43 PM
One has to wonder how the family dynamic would effect the attitudes and personalities of the septuplets. This could be a key factor... :think
Boilermaker
12-01-2011, 04:02 AM
I just think we should make three Joe Frazier brothers and sit back, drink a cold one, and watch...

It is hard to believe that the Foreman twins would both be roped like dopes!
PowerPuncher
12-01-2011, 04:57 AM
The other septuplet would have the same experiences that made Ali who he was. They wouldn't get as much attention from their mums, so they'd be very different people, not as mentally quick. Septuplet's are also likely to be smaller so no HW champ even if they excel at boxing. Would they get as much food to help them grow into strong young men?

But yea they obviously all have potential to be ATGs
the cobra
12-01-2011, 05:30 AM
Out of all your wonderful thread titles, this is one of them.