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>Both sign up for a shoot proto-MMA match
>Close to the fight Ali's camp wants the rules changed
>Inoki cannot do any standing kicks
>Nor standing grappling
>Nor grounded grappling
>Literally all Inoki can do is either take punches and lose or lie down kicking Ali's legs, hoping Ali goes down so he can wrestle him
Ali feared Inoki after seeing those kicks. He chickened out and didn't want his aura and rep to crash and burn to some Jap wrestler. He would have been beaten soundly, especially as boxing and wrestling were in distinct separate lanes, compared to today's fighting world.
