I'm fed up with this Ali prime business.

Ali appeared great before his lay off because of the opposition.

He fought only one great fighter, Sonny Liston, in his so-called prime period.

And, if he did lose the ability to "dance" after his comeback he has only himself to blame, after all, when he got defeated by Joe Frazier, Ali was only 29!

The general consensus is that a heavyweight boxer reaches his prime after 30.

No it wasn't until his comeback that he had to face a series of really great fighters.

And, talking about comebacks, what about George Foreman.
Now that was a comeback! He was ten years out of the ring!