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There hasn't been a great trilogy since Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier met in the middle of the ring, the first unforgettable when Frazier sealing the victory in the 15th round knocking "The Greatest" to the canvas with a classic left hook and Ali, after winning the second in a slugfest, traded punches with his arch-enemy for 14 rounds until Frazier couldn't rise from his stool in the 15th in the Thrilla in Manila.

Will Donald Trump and Joe Biden treat us to three fights that will go down in history as the bloodiest confrontation in a civilized setting? Tonight the two meet for the first time. There are five weeks until the elections with Biden holding slim leads on most cards in the battle ground states.

I see Biden in the role of Ali, but I envision Trump as more of a George Foreman throwing haymaker after haymaker with the hopes of landing a big punch or two. If Biden is going to triumph, he has to combine Ali's quick jabs with rope-a-dope tactics when he allows Trump to run at the mouth until the latter loses his breath and stands before the American people like a punch-drunk fool.

Trump's aggressive strategy--hitting below the belt combined with kidney shots and head butts--is not going to fool anyone. He will keep moving forward and will only be stopped when he discovers that he is whiffing with his rights and lefts while Biden's responses are hitting their marks and the president finds himself dealing with cuts over both eyes, a broken nose and a swollen mouth with blood spurting from everywhere as he once told Fox's Megan Kelly in his debates against Hillary Clinton.

The odds makers are split on the outcome. They have doubts about Biden even though he has been featured in many main events throughout his career and has emerged victoriously. In his last headliner he faced Paul Ryan. Barack Obama, seeking reelection, was lackluster and listless in his first meeting with Mitt Romney and the pundits agreed that the challenger had gained a unanimous decision.

Seeking to reverse the momentum, the veteran Biden controlled the pace against the rookie Ryan in the sole vice-presidential encounter and the same pundits called Biden the easy victor. Inspired by his stablemate's performance, Obama controlled the last two matches against Romney to pave the way to defending his crown in the November elections.

Trump has been blustering in the pre-showdown hype and has raised enough questions about Biden with his intimidating rhetoric that there are those who wonder whether or not Biden can talk the talk. He has dismissed many doubters with his televised interviews. His acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention was a knockout, but there are those who dispute Biden's abilities to be quick on his feet without a teleprompter.

The key for Biden is to pivot, attack methodically and like a martial artist use Trump's force against him. When he questions Biden about his son's dealings in Ukraine, he answers that various investigations determined that his son acted according to the law. He then reverses the rhetoric by speaking at length that Trump was only the third president in American history impeached for being in cahoots with Putin and the Russians against the Ukrainians.

When Trump touts that he is an economic genius and his foe will destroy the American dream, Biden can gain the upper hand by pounding home that the American dream has become the American nightmare under Trump and that during the Obama/Biden eight years the economy emerged from the direst financial disaster since the Great Depression with a strong, growing economy that continued until Trump destroyed it.

No matter the tactic, Biden responds with a short jab and then turns the subject to Trump's incompetence dealing with COVID. Like Ali throwing three or four fast jabs, Biden repeats "more than 200,000 deaths and seven million confirmed cases" several times. Biden must establish the distance in the ring and maintain the advantage by pivoting. 

Trump brags about building the mightiest military in the history of mankind, but Biden blasts the president for calling soldiers "losers" and "suckers" as well as ridiculing deceased Senator John McCain for not being a hero because he was captured in the Vietnam War. There isn't one thing that Trump can say that Biden can't triple-down, let alone double-down.

"Unlike Trump who doesn't pay his taxes but can cut a $150,000 check for Stormy Daniels to keep her trap shut about their rendezvous, I paid $75,000 last year." "Unlike Trump who refers to Mexican-Americans as drug dealers and rapists, I honor Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta for their unique contributions in fighting for social justice." "Unlike Trump who bellows he can grab any woman he wants by her private parts, I believe a woman has the right to make her own decisions regarding her body." 

Trump has dug himself such a deep hole that all Biden has to do is shovel dirt on the president's bloated body.

If Biden counters, lets Trump swing wildly and then retaliates with a barrage of straights to the chin, Trump will be stumbling around in circles because he ain't going anywhere for 90 minutes. He has never been under the bright lights as an incumbent defending his many failures when someone can pound his fleshy face into a ghastly and gruesome mess. 

Unlike a press conference when he can disappear behind the nearest door, he can't hide in this showdown. He won't be able walk away like Roberto Duran when he quit against "Sugar" Ray Leonard and say, "No más!" If Biden sticks to this pivot-and-counter plan, Trump will hear the American people shouting from the rafters on November 3rd, "Trump! No más!" 

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