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

[gotsnowgotslush]

They are honoring Muhammad Ali during the French Open 2016.
This was heard, during the tribute-

"Muhammad Ali shook up the world. And the world is better for it. We are all better for it. Michelle and I send our deepest condolences to his family, and we pray that the greatest fighter of them all finally rests in peace."

- President Barack Obama

http://www.npr.org/2016/06/04/480743833/read-president-obamas-remembrance-of-muhammad-ali

 

[IrezumiKiss]

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[gerbilwhisperer]

Oooh, you're so edgy.

You dispute in any way professional boxing isn't one of the most notoriously corrupt and fixed rackets in the world, including during Ali's entire pro career (1960-1980)?

So fixed in fact that it permitted Ali's second-to-last pro fight even though Larry Holmes didn't want to fight him because he knew even if he played his fixed role perfectly and took it as easy on Ali as he possibly could without totally exposing that fix, it would still embarrass the man who had saved virtually nothing from his 20-year career of making riches, but still needed a fight to buy his next meal? A mercy fight that, after watching it, Sylvester Stallone said was like watching an autopsy on a man who is still alive.

A despicable mercy fight allowed that is said to have contributed greatly to the Parkinson's which almost totally incapacitated Ali the rest of his life and was probably the main contributor to his death. So embarrassing for the racket itself that Dundee finally had to stop the slaughter in the 11th round.

And then the racket even allowed the universally known to be mentally-challenged Ali to once more fight for food money, even though virtually no one else thought that was sane at all.

That was the racket's final reward to an such eager voluntary tool: they got to use just the mere memory of Ali's once almost unchallenged talent to squeeze the last dollars out of the career they facilitated, tossing him a few, last lunch money bucks for his shameful last effort in return.

After that final loss, the racket couldn't even fool itself into believing it could milk Ali for any more, and Ali's mental and physical condition, fully exposed after that last fight, put the nail in his pro boxing coffin.

The racket done with him and Ali's natural capacities basically done with him, too, all that was left to try to support him after all the money he'd made and wasted at age 39 was for a Foundation to be created in his name so that money could be furnished to his well keeping under the cover of another cause (see Clinton Foundation and so many others).

Just like all others who are so shallowly concerned with only themselves, Ali took his best grab when the racket tossed him their rope and they both milked each other as much as they could for as long as they possibly could.

All the eulogizing words now which continue on building up yet another myth story simply help coverup more the despicable circumstances of the actual reality of another human life. And all the rackets in the world love it as coverup is precisely what allows them to continue to thrive.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

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Remember when this issue came out back in the day. Wish I still had it.

 

[doctor_insanus]

I remember! I kinda hated that they made Ali sound like a lunatic a couple of times.

Still... he kicked Supes' ass in a fair fight!

Kryptonian Ali would have been a baaaaaad man. No way Batman takes him down.

 

[gerbilwhisperer]

Slave name.

Factually, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr. was named after his father who was named for the renowned Kentucky abolitionist Cassius Marcellus Clay (1810-1903), who managed to live to 92 even though he was beaten, stabbed, and shot throughout his life by those who hated his anti-slavery principles.

Your malicious ignorance is exactly what fuels racism. Great job.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

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[doctor_insanus]

Factually, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr. was named after his father who was named for the renowned Kentucky abolitionist Cassius Marcellus Clay (1810-1903), who managed to live to 92 even though he was beaten, stabbed, and shot throughout his life by those who hated his anti-slavery principles.

Your malicious ignorance is exactly what fuels racism. Great job.

It's good that you're here to tell us what's best for the Black Man.

Now go fuck yourself.

 

[phrodeau]

Wow, I had no idea that a person could win the Heavyweight Championship by sucking cock. I learn so much here.

 

[nerfhearder]

Gotta respect any guy that can stand there and let Foreman pound on him for several rounds as a tactical move. Dude was probably pissing blood for a month after that fight but he made it count.

 

[Kantarii]

Another legend leaves us.....

 

[hobbit.]

Even the BBC are buying into this shit. the Musketeers has been cancelled! FFS!

Ok so he didnt want a slave name, he didnt want to be a christian, instead he became a muslim and took up a form of very well paid gladiator sports... go figure.

jerk.

 

[hobbit.]

Gotta respect any guy that can stand there and let Foreman pound on him for several rounds as a tactical move. Dude was probably pissing blood for a month after that fight but he made it count.

better than picking cotton, the name change helped... oh look the bank balance swelled aswell....

get a grip people.

 

[toubab]

The people who are disrespecting Ali and the people who are idolizing him all need to calm down and get real. He was a man who did a lot of things inside the ring and outside the ring. Some were good and some were not so good, depending on your perspective. Here's a bit of info to illustrate the point:

http://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/03/us/campaign-notes-muhammad-ali-switches-his-support-to-reagan.html

CAMPAIGN NOTES; Muhammad Ali Switches His Support to Reagan
UPI
Published: October 3, 1984

"LOS ANGELES, Oct. 2— Muhammad Ali, the former heavyweight boxing champion, who endorsed the Rev. Jesse Jackson's unsuccessful run for the White House, has announced he is switching to President Reagan.

Mr. Ali announced his support Monday night at a gathering for black Republicans at the home of Jerry Zarg, who is challenging Representative Henry A. Waxman, a Democrat.

Asked to elaborate on his endorsement of Mr. Reagan, Mr. Ali told reporters, ''He's keeping God in schools and that's enough.''"


I view Ali as a great fighter and a pretty decent human being with a good sense of humor. Which is more than can be said about most people.

 

[gerbilwhisperer]

It's good that you're here to tell us what's best for the Black Man.

Now go fuck yourself.

Not nearly as good as you squatting here showing everyone that your liberal hate runs so deep that you won't hesitate to make racist "slave" shit up to fling at will.

 

[gerbilwhisperer]

I view Ali as a great fighter and a pretty decent human being with a good sense of humor. Which is more than can be said about most people.

Since you'll never know "most' people in any way, shape, or form, is your worthless evaluation there supposed to amount to anything else but simply more stroke fodder for your ego?

 

[Mr Noone]

Watch this. Great stuff.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b-ui9mTPMMY

That was a lovely tribute/remembrance.

 

[toubab]

Since you'll never know "most' people in any way, shape, or form, is your worthless evaluation there supposed to amount to anything else but simply more stroke fodder for your ego?

It's certainly more than can be said about you, eeyore.

 

[Fata Morgana]

That was a lovely tribute/remembrance.

Just been watching a doc on BBC. Parky was on and summed him up beautifully. Those interviews were brilliant and I would recommend anyone to watch them in full if they are online.

My Dad loved him.

 

[Mr Noone]

Just been watching a doc on BBC. Parky was on and summed him up beautifully. Those interviews were brilliant and I would recommend anyone to watch them in full if they are online.

My Dad loved him.

I have a friend in Ireland who is a huge fan. She is currently the Chairman (woman) of the Leinster Boxing Association. Her dad was a coach on the 1960 Irish Olympic team in Rome when young Ali (then Cassius Clay) won his medal.

 

[gerbilwhisperer]

It's certainly more than can be said about you, eeyore.

And just think, touby: you "knowing" me here, actually digitally meeting me here and personally trading words with me here, is a billion times more than you'll ever first-hand "know" about Ali, and a gazillion times more than you can ever even fantasize "knowing" about "most" people.

How much better you reckon you "know" Ali than the racist piece of shit who started this thread simply because another famous "brother" died? You think your "know" outshines his "black"? You need him to tell you again that's just your white privilege talking again, that only a "brother" like himself - who doesn't actually "know" Ali anymore than you do - "knows" so, so much more than you simply because he's a racist piece of shit?

Never mind...

Instead, maybe you can now share all you "know" from all the Kardashian episodes you watch, too, wannabe?

 

[phrodeau]

(edited)

Never mind...

All we need to hear from you.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

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[Disgustipated]

 

[gerbilwhisperer]

Why racist pieces of shit love him:

When Cassius Clay joined the Nation of Islam he became the champion of racial segregation—and that is what we are fighting.

- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Quote from the book, Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X, which proposes four roles Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., the Louisville Lip, Cassius X, and Muhammad Ali played and exploited for as much as he could.

But, as I posted earlier about his final act as nearly incapacitated had-been, still open to fights just to feed himself because he had hardly nothing left of all he'd made in his 20-year career, the real champs of using him all up for their own gain and then spitting him out when he was no longer of use to them was the completely corrupt racket of professional boxing itself.

http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/161875