Muhammad Ali

[Red Mist]

What a top bloke he was. I was watching his interviews with Parky on youtube, fucking hysterical stuff. What a legend Ali is. We just don't get characters like that anymore.

[bri]

agreed, their all to worried about advertising contracts and the like to show and be anything that might effect the money

[Paul]

What a top bloke he was. I was watching his interviews with Parky on youtube, fucking hysterical stuff. What a legend Ali is. We just don't get characters like that anymore.

 

Fucking legend. Way more than a mere sportsman.

[Mr Moustache]

I wanted to punch that cheese grinning leech Beckham when he was pictured with the Great Man.

 

Ali was from a another place.

[Captain]

Ali is a legend in the true meaning of the word. If any of you haven't seen When We Were Kings you are missing out.

[CharleyKnight]

Agreed,. got the book as well. I am a massive Ali fan. Everything about him fascinates me, his charisma, his athletisism ( a man 6ft 2, 17stone who can fire a jab out faster than Bruce Lee, unreal), his morality, his sense of humour, his greatness. He is like the perfect human being and noone is a more fitting role model, no matter what you do you. You find me anyone out there who doesn't agree Ali was a top bloke.

[Sangria]

A true class act both inside and outside the ring. The man just had an aura about him that very few people on this earth have. Legend and no mistake.

[Remmie]

I fucking love the guy but he is far from perfect in his personal life. Imagine how much you would have hated him if you were an opponent!

[Paul]

I fucking love the guy but he is far from perfect in his personal life. Imagine how much you would have hated him if you were an opponent!

 

Who is though? Gandhi beat his wife when he was in his teens and MLK couldn't keep his dick in his pants. Overall, Ali's positives far outweigh his negative traits.

[Guest bigf00t]

A very good Muslim also now- I dont think you can question his personal life in the last 20 years...

 

 

MLK was a hardcore pimp..

[Paul]

A very good Muslim also now- I dont think you can question his personal life in the last 20 years...

 

 

MLK was a hardcore pimp..

 

That was Malcolm X. Once he converted to Islam he was reputed to be a reformed character (according to the CIA who were digging for dirt). MLK was having affairs left, right and centre, throughout the whole of the civil rights successes.

[Mook]

The day Muhammad Ali fought in Paisley & was Booed...

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-43471024

[Anny Road]

Weird. I just watched Facing Ali and posted in the film thread. Then up pops this.

[magicrat]

The day Muhammad Ali fought in Paisley & was Booed...

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-43471024

 

He wasn't well liked here when he first became Champion,  

Too brash and too black plus he had beaten Henry Cooper, rather fortunately as well.

[Charles Penrose]

Am I alone in thinking the bloke was a dickhead? He was a bully for a start and half of his rants and rhymes were more embarrassing than they were lyrical genius. A great fighter who occasionally spouted shit, cringeworthy poems.

 

A decade or two spent walking silently and slowly whilst holding other celebrities hands doesn’t mean he wasn’t a cunt.

[s(k)aturation]

Am I alone in thinking the bloke was a dickhead? He was a bully for a start and half of his rants and rhymes were more embarrassing than they were lyrical genius. A great fighter who occasionally spouted shit, cringeworthy poems.

 

A decade or two spent walking silently and slowly whilst holding other celebrities hands doesn’t mean he wasn’t a cunt.

 

 

Dickhead for sure.  And the Greatest (confidence, swagger, aesthetics, longevity, taking punishment) certainly.  Fighter.

 

Why bother ourselves trying to trip him up on the politic or political trimmings.  He was just a boxer.

 

But fuck, what a definitive anthem of the "sport".

 

The cunt category is swimming with other non-sporting candidates.  I'll leave him out of it for the moment.

[Anny Road]

Nah. Man of principle with the bollocks to stand up for them.

A gentleman too.

[Lee909]

Everything i have read on him i don't agree with being a bully. He could be viewed that way but he never felt the Frazier stuff was personal. It was all to sell the fight. Frazier did take it personal though which led to the anamosity between them. There is a great book Ghosts of Manilla. A good read but pretty sad as both came across as bitter old men.

[Trumo]

His mama named him Clay, I'm-a call him Clay.

[Anny Road]

He too ugly to be the champ

[s(k)aturation]

[Mook]

Am I alone in thinking the bloke was a dickhead? He was a bully for a start and half of his rants and rhymes were more embarrassing than they were lyrical genius. A great fighter who occasionally spouted shit, cringeworthy poems.

 

A decade or two spent walking silently and slowly whilst holding other celebrities hands doesn’t mean he wasn’t a cunt.

 

I think he had his good & bad points like anyone else. He didn't cover himself in glory with the Joe Frazier/gorilla stuff but he was very quick witted & his poetry was perfect in its context.

 

Ali is probably the most iconic sportsman ever, he more than likely always will be & with good reason too.

[Anny Road]

Foreman was saying that when Ali put him down in Zaire any other boxer him included would have followed up with one on the way down finishing him. Ali stopped and backed off. That's when he knew he was great.

[KMD7]

Foreman was saying that when Ali put him down in Zaire any other boxer him included would have followed up with one on the way down finishing him. Ali stopped and backed off. That's when he knew he was great.

 

Watched that fight lately and kept winding back to the ko blow.  You could see the fury/intensity in Ali's face right after the punch landed and to be able to hold off from hitting Foreman again when he was on his way says a lot about him.  It's actually quite glorious

[s(k)aturation]

He was "The Greatest" Boxer of all time.

 

On balance, the ancillaries pale for me.