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Muhammad Ali based an entire fight on a strategy like that, which he called the Rope-a-Dope.
Becoming Holyfield Evander Holyfield with Lee Gruenfeld 2008
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Muhammad Ali based an entire fight on a strategy like that, which he called the Rope-a-Dope.
Becoming Holyfield Evander Holyfield with Lee Gruenfeld 2008
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Muhammad Ali based an entire fight on a strategy like that, which he called the Rope-a-Dope.
Becoming Holyfield Evander Holyfield with Lee Gruenfeld 2008
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Back in 1974, Ali artfully utilized the Rope-a-Dope on an unwitting George Frazier to take the heavyweight crown from his younger and stronger (and much feared) opponent.
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OpEdNews - Quicklink: President Obama Pulls the Rope-a-Dope 2009
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More likely he's signalling to the Taliban how long they have to play "Rope-a-Dope"
Obama’s three-quarters have it both ways Afghan strategy - California_Yankee’s blog - RedState 2009
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McCain said that Obama doesn't understand strategy but it's pretty clear he understood Ali's famous strategy of letting his opponent flail away and weaken himself -- I'm not sure what it's called in politics but Ali called it Rope-a-Dope.
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I was reminded of that picture as I watched him employ The Champ's various tactics — the Rope-a-Dope, the Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee, the Shuffle — as he fought Sen. Hillary Clinton to a draw in Cleveland in what is likely to be the last major bout of the Democratic race.
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In Rope-a-Dope mode, Obama concedes the obvious again and again.
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And they'd come up with something Ali, in his typical poetic fashion, liked to call "the Rope-a-Dope."
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