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Message: [QUOTE="storrsroars, post: 5326537, member: 2500"] An interesting exercise would be to parse the last 125 years into 5 periods of 25 years each. I don't think Ali wins the 1976-2000 period. His win over Foreman was in '74. But he'd crush the 1951-75 period, even over Jackie, IMHO.98 Jackie would win 1926-50 because it was just that big a thing. And Ruth wins 1900-25 as baseball was pretty much the only popular pro sport and he ushered in the live ball era with a bang. And if we did it by decades, Ali might be the only one to win two. [/QUOTE]