Muhammad Ali R.I.P.

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03 Jun 2016, 9:22 pm

Muhammad Ali dies at age 74, family spokesman says

By far the most well known sports figure in my lifetime.

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03 Jun 2016, 11:30 pm

he's passed away, 74 years old

He seemed older but that is probably because of the cruelness of parkinson's disease had long stolen his voice from us.

RIP

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04 Jun 2016, 12:03 am

he talked the talk, but more importantly, walked the walk.

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04 Jun 2016, 12:17 am

He had so much charisma that even after Parkinson's robbed him of his voice and left him shaking in a wheelchair he could bring a crowd to its feet simply by rolling in. He stood up for what he believed in, and was ready to go to prison at the pinnacle of his career rather than fight in Nam. Many whites hated him for it, but he was right and the feds were wrong. Truly The Greatest, and will remain so.

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04 Jun 2016, 12:59 am

I read his autobiography a few years ago. Wonderful person, he will definitely be missed.

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04 Jun 2016, 4:30 am

Barchan wrote:

I read his autobiography a few years ago. Wonderful person, he will definitely be missed.

I am going to have to read that sometime.

R.I.P. a champion.

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04 Jun 2016, 5:32 am

i thought he would die this year. into cemented history he has dropped.
parkinsonian rigidity is not a favorable physical condition in which to struggle with respiratory distress.

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04 Jun 2016, 2:12 pm

RIP! :cry:

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04 Jun 2016, 7:42 pm

A superb athlete, the greatest boxer of his, or any, day, and a real gentleman. Again, someone who had been alive for my entire life span, who I took for granted would always be here, has left.

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04 Jun 2016, 8:33 pm

If there is a Hereafter I am sure Ali and Howard Cosell are trading stories and jokes together....

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05 Jun 2016, 1:15 am

While I note Donald Trump made a nice tweet in reaction to Ali's death I have a fantasy in which Ali in his prime has a trash talking contest with Trump. It obviously was in a very different context but Ali was more direct in charges of disloyalty and just plane verbally vicious then Trump.

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05 Jun 2016, 1:21 am

ASPartOfMe wrote:

While I note Donald Trump made a nice tweet in reaction to Ali's death I have a fantasy in which Ali in his prime has a trash talking contest with Trump.

Or better yet, Ali fights Trump in a celebrity boxing match. :lol:

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05 Jun 2016, 1:23 am

Kraichgauer wrote:

ASPartOfMe wrote:

While I note Donald Trump made a nice tweet in reaction to Ali's death I have a fantasy in which Ali in his prime has a trash talking contest with Trump.

Or better yet, Ali fights Trump in a celebrity boxing match. :lol:

trump would hire somebody to fight for him. and in a pissing contest, ali would send Donald packing in no time.

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05 Jun 2016, 1:40 am

auntblabby wrote:

Kraichgauer wrote:

ASPartOfMe wrote:

While I note Donald Trump made a nice tweet in reaction to Ali's death I have a fantasy in which Ali in his prime has a trash talking contest with Trump.

Or better yet, Ali fights Trump in a celebrity boxing match. :lol:

trump would hire somebody to fight for him. and in a pissing contest, ali would send Donald packing in no time.

No doubt.

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05 Jun 2016, 2:38 am

He was openly racist.

No idea why he's getting a pass.

Good boxer? Sure (not good enough, however).

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05 Jun 2016, 2:40 am

Dillogic wrote:

He was openly racist. No idea why he's getting a pass. Good boxer? Sure (not good enough, however).

racist against which other race? white? then why did he say elvis was "the nicest, humblest man one could meet"?

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