Thread: Frank Skinner on Muhammad Ali

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Frank Skinner listened to Clay fight on radio with his dad in the early morning.

Ali came from a middle class fighter.

Ali may not have thrown his medal in the river from the bridge

Ali first wife was a virgin.

Ali stripped of title and sentenced 5 years imprisonment for not joining army.

Ali starred in a terrible musical in 1969.

Paddy a bare knuckle fighter started a support group from England with a petition. Paddy stayed friends with him and visited him in his council house a dozen times. Paddy stayed at Ali's place too.

Ali sentence was eventually over turned and licence returned after they showed that 254 criminals had been given a boxing licence when his had been refused.

Larry Holmes got a home full of pictures of himself and some of Ali and Frazier.

Big Bear training camp has a big rock with Jack Johnson name on it. I would love to go there.

Nicola Adams first fight she saw of him was thrilla in manilla.

Ali fought a wrestler from Japan who lay on his back kicking Ali.

Holmes said he did not hit Ali hard but with an open hand for many of the big shots.

Terrible last fight with Berbick with the gate not opening for the audience and a cow bell for the ringing the rounds.

The greatest rbr ever.