But is this 'nice guy' thing all a bit of a myth?
I didnt know that about Bradman, but my choice in this thread, Ali, was a serial adultery (which doesn't make him a bad bloke) and his treatment and lack of respect for both Joe Frazier and Geroge Foreman in their respective bouts went way...
How much did the 3 year inaction affect his performances in the defeats against Frazier ad Norton?
And if the Cleveland Williams fight was him at his 'peak' how much better would he have got without the Vietnam issues?
Great thread Swansman, like my postman you always deliver 😂
As you say really subjective, but for me it has to be Muhammad Ali.
At the top of his sport, and even with an original circumnavigation of the system*, he refused to be drafted into the US army during the Vietnam war.
*They had...