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Gentlemen, you've hit the nail on the head. We are working on - but not for this version - a system where each fighter will be given a percentage split for his boxer/slugger rating and it will be checked before the beginning of a round against other factors and modified by other factors. That will determine if he fights as a slugger or a boxer. To illustrate, let's say Ali would be 80/20 as a boxer/slugger. 80% of the time he would box and 20% of the time he would slug. However, fatigue and other factors might alter the percentages to 70%/30% - now don't quote these numbers - I'm just throwing them out!
Another possibility would be to add a category or several to better depict styles.
Also, the only way you can get Ali/Frazier to be realistic is to set Ali to post-prime vs Frazier in his prime for the bout.
Incidentally, (1) Ali was a great athlete with almost super-human reflexes but he was not a great defensive fighter in the mold of the greats like Harold Johnson, Pep, etc. Yet he definitely deserves a -6 in his prime for his inability to get hit; (2) more than one expert said that had Ali chosen to set down on his punches, he'd have been a killer, with his combination of size, strength and speed; he chose not to fight that way; (3) Of Ali's knockdowns, several of them could easily be dismissed as the result of his being off-balance, not blasted to the canvas; others were the result of blatant carelessness and he always got up. De la Hoya is a perfect example of a fighter who has a very good chin but has had trouble escaping from the perception that his chin is only so-so due to knockdowns early in his career. Marciano went down but nobody doubts his chin. I understand that Ali had his weaknesses and that there were actually two Ali's (which is why we are rating him twice); however, there is a backlash now that tends to diminish Ali, which is hard to fathom. It's like complaining about Cindy Crawford's mole - we all resent someone who apparently has it all.
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