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Friday, July 11, 2008 1:10:44 AM
FRTL - Sometimes you have to be like Ali, using the rope-a-dope until the sellers run out of ammo, then you come out swinging like Smokin Joe Frazier. Flippers and sellers are gone, great board full of longs building up now. Float will get smaller and smaller as we move higher imho. Great day, thought we would start moving back up yesterday, took another day to get here.
Rope-a-dope is a risky boxing strategy first used by Muhammad Ali against George Foreman in the Heavyweight Championship match held on 30 October, 1974 in Kinsasha, Zaire. The match is referred to as the Rumble in the Jungle because of the explosive action between the two great fighters.
As history tells it, Ali was the better technical fighter while Foreman “the bruiser” packed a harder punch. In the first round of the fight Ali scored several technical hits but Foreman remained unfazed. By the second round, Ali changed his strategy, frequently laying against the ropes, allowing Foreman to exhaust himself by throwing repeated punches, mostly to Ali’s protective arms. Ali also layed against Foreman frequently, forcing Foreman to hold up his weight while continuing to thrust blows. By round five Foreman was exhausted while Ali had taken every opportunity to land choice blows to Foreman’s face and head when the big fighter let down his guard. By round eight Foreman’s punches were weak and ineffective and Ali won the match by knockout.
After the fight, much controversy erupted and Foreman eventually claimed he had been drugged. When Howard Cosell interviewed Ali about the match, Ali coined the phrase “rope-a-dope,” referring to his strategy and Foreman’s accusation.
Today rope-a-dope refers to any strategy that involves “playing the loser” to “come out the winner.” Rope-a-dope strategy implies the need for sharp technical skills to “take the hits” on the downside, and shrewd timing to break through at the proper moment to claim victory. Political strategists, pundits, politicians, business men and even combat tacticians use the phrase to refer to risky maneuvers that take one from a position of the seeming underdog to one of victor.
2008-The Rainmakers Moneymakers. stock symbol RAIN
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Rope-a-dope is a risky boxing strategy first used by Muhammad Ali against George Foreman in the Heavyweight Championship match held on 30 October, 1974 in Kinsasha, Zaire. The match is referred to as the Rumble in the Jungle because of the explosive action between the two great fighters.
As history tells it, Ali was the better technical fighter while Foreman “the bruiser” packed a harder punch. In the first round of the fight Ali scored several technical hits but Foreman remained unfazed. By the second round, Ali changed his strategy, frequently laying against the ropes, allowing Foreman to exhaust himself by throwing repeated punches, mostly to Ali’s protective arms. Ali also layed against Foreman frequently, forcing Foreman to hold up his weight while continuing to thrust blows. By round five Foreman was exhausted while Ali had taken every opportunity to land choice blows to Foreman’s face and head when the big fighter let down his guard. By round eight Foreman’s punches were weak and ineffective and Ali won the match by knockout.
After the fight, much controversy erupted and Foreman eventually claimed he had been drugged. When Howard Cosell interviewed Ali about the match, Ali coined the phrase “rope-a-dope,” referring to his strategy and Foreman’s accusation.
Today rope-a-dope refers to any strategy that involves “playing the loser” to “come out the winner.” Rope-a-dope strategy implies the need for sharp technical skills to “take the hits” on the downside, and shrewd timing to break through at the proper moment to claim victory. Political strategists, pundits, politicians, business men and even combat tacticians use the phrase to refer to risky maneuvers that take one from a position of the seeming underdog to one of victor.
2008-The Rainmakers Moneymakers. stock symbol RAIN
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/board.asp?board_id=11575
2008-The Rainmakers Moneymakers. stock symbol RAIN
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/board.asp?board_id=11575
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