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R.I.P., Muhammad Ali (1/17/42 - 6/3/16)

Iconic, controversial, phenomenally gifted and my favorite thing about him?

The ultimate trash talker and always backed that trash where it counted.

If you've never seen when we were kings check it out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfUHYUpmTFs

"I'm so mean I make medicine sick" :D

Today we lost a true legend.:(
 
are you standing in line to get some money?





IrezumiKiss said:
Rest in power, brother. There'll never be another like you. :rose:

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Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr., January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016) was an American former professional boxer, generally considered among the greatest heavyweights in the history of the sport. A controversial and polarizing figure during his early career, Ali is now remembered for the skills he displayed in the ring plus the values he exemplified outside of it: religious freedom, racial justice and the triumph of principle over expedience. He is one of the most recognized sports figures of the past 100 years, crowned "Sportsman of the Century" by Sports Illustrated and "Sports Personality of the Century" by the BBC. He also wrote several best-selling books about his career, including The Greatest: My Own Story and The Soul of a Butterfly.

Ali, originally known as Cassius Clay, began training at 12 years old and at the age of 22 won the world heavyweight championship in 1964 from Sonny Liston in a stunning upset. Shortly after that bout, Ali joined the Nation of Islam and changed his name. He converted to Sunni Islam in 1975, and 30 years later began adhering to Sufism.

In 1967, three years after winning the heavyweight title, Ali refused to be conscripted into the U.S. military, citing his religious beliefs and opposition to American involvement in the Vietnam War. He was eventually arrested and found guilty on draft evasion charges and stripped of his boxing title. He did not fight again for nearly four years—losing a time of peak performance in an athlete's career. Ali's appeal worked its way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, where in 1971 his conviction was overturned. Ali's actions as a conscientious objector to the war made him an icon for the larger counterculture generation.

Ali remains the only three-time lineal world heavyweight champion; he won the title in 1964, 1974, and 1978. Between February 25, 1964 and September 19, 1964 Muhammad Ali reigned as the undisputed heavyweight boxing champion.

Nicknamed "The Greatest", Ali was involved in several historic boxing matches. Notable among these were the first Liston fight, three with rival Joe Frazier, and one with George Foreman, in which he regained titles he had been stripped of seven years earlier.

At a time when most fighters let their managers do the talking, Ali, inspired by professional wrestler "Gorgeous" George Wagner, thrived in—and indeed craved—the spotlight, where he was often provocative and outlandish. He controlled most press conferences and interviews, and spoke freely about issues unrelated to boxing. Ali transformed the role and image of the African American athlete in America by his embrace of racial pride and his willingness to antagonize the white establishment in doing so. In the words of writer Joyce Carol Oates, he was one of the few athletes in any sport to "define the terms of his public reputation".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Ali
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toubab said:
I don't know why I get involved in discussions like this. I also don't know why you would come into this particular thread right after the man died and say he sucked as a fighter. Not only is that false, it's disrespectful when there's no call for it.
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You're the only one left who responds to that loser, so he has to keep pushing your buttons.
 
Another black death boilerplate template (see Prince R.I.P thread) by a brother (obviously) for another one of his brothers he never met or knew. Cool. Just like male Klansmen who never meet or come to know each other but consider themselves brothers too simply because they're racists too.

The absolute greatest thing about Ali is he learned early that he was allowed to swat all he wanted but should never knock out the hand that fed him if he had any intention at all of rising to the very top of one of the world's most notoriously corrupt and fixed rackets. He understood that was his E ticket in this life, and he rode it like the best of Toms. Another traitor who fed his entire life from the very whiteman table he claimed to despise.
 
Yes one of the true greats

I just made a reference to him on another post
 
WGBH Boston, honored Muhammad Ali's passing with programs based on his life.

NPR's sports correspondent,Tom Goldman, spoke this piece about him-


"Ali was the rare and perhaps only person who could go anywhere — Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, a marketplace in Latin America — and people would stop and point and smile."

"In his life, he traveled from a boxer's cruelty to kindness. A man who stood up and shouted out for his principles ultimately embraced the quiet principle of spirituality. But in later years, his words muted by Parkinson's, Ali was asked if he'd do it all over exactly the same, even if he knew in advance how he'd end up. The answer: You bet I would."

http://news.wgbh.org/2016/06/04/news/boxer-muhammad-ali-greatest-all-time-dies-74

"Early in 1996, I was asked to light the caldron at the Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta. Of course my immediate answer was yes. I never even thought of having Parkinson's or what physical challenges that would present for me."

"When the moment came for me to walk out on the 140-foot-high scaffolding and take the torch from Janet Evans, I realized I had the eyes of the world on me. I also realized that as I held the Olympic torch high above my head, my tremors had taken over. Just at that moment, I heard a rumble in the stadium that became a pounding roar and then turned into a deafening applause. I was reminded of my 1960 Olympic experience in Rome, when I won the gold medal. Those 36 years between Rome and Atlanta flashed before me, and I realized that I had come full circle."

"Nothing in life has defeated me. I am still the "Greatest." This I believe."

- Muhammad Ali


gsgs comment-

He was a brave man, a good man. He was loved, by people from all walks of life, from all over the world.
 
We met Ali in like 1976 for a second. My brother was working his first job out of college in downtown Chicago, and my mom dad and I visited and were walking around the financial district one Saturday morning and it was like a ghost town. We were waiting at a crosswalk and all the sudden this guy and his wife walk up behind us and it was Ali and his wife.

We said hey, he said hey and that was about it.


On a boxing related side note, I used to spray Tommy Hearns lawn and my friends used to care for Emanuel Stewarts swimming pool. Shaped like a boxing glove it was.
 
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