Muhammad Ali the Greatest RIP Legend

If you never believed in the Devil before in your life, but watched as Muhammad Ali, who boasted himself as too fast, too pretty, who others labelled him as "The Mouth of the South" and "The Louisville Lip", at the end of it all become reduced to a shell of a man who couldn't speak, couldn't move and body started to crumple over right before our very eyes, then you would not only believe in the Devil now but you would also know that the Devil's tool was cruel irony.

God bless Ali. What he did for Black people and people of colour of our generation could only be matched by the likes of MLK, Pele, Malcolm and Mandela.

He not only helped us to have dignity. He gave us a right to express our beliefs no matter the persecution and no matter the penalties, because that right of expression and idea is what truly makes us valuable assets to this human race.

He had his faults, like all people do. But his faults were as a result of the time he was born into, and not because the material of his humanhood was any less faulty. If born in 1980, Ali would have the same principles for different causes and then some, because now in this era we know better and know more!

I look around today, and there ain't many like him left. PERIOD. Black, White, Asian, Hispanic. He is truly the last of a good crop.
‪#‎RIPAli‬ ‪#‎Ali‬ ‪#‎Boomaye‬

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Originally Posted by ykdadamaja

If you never believed in the Devil before in your life, but watched as Muhammad Ali, who boasted himself as too fast, too pretty, who others labelled him as "The Mouth of the South" and "The Louisville Lip", at the end of it all become reduced to a shell of a man who couldn't speak, couldn't move and body started to crumple over right before our very eyes, then you would not only believe in the Devil now but you would also know that the Devil's tool was cruel irony.

God bless Ali. What he did for Black people and people of colour of our generation could only be matched by the likes of MLK, Pele, Malcolm and Mandela.

He not only helped us to have dignity. He gave us a right to express our beliefs no matter the persecution and no matter the penalties, because that right of expression and idea is what truly makes us valuable assets to this human race.

He had his faults, like all people do. But his faults were as a result of the time he was born into, and not because the material of his humanhood was any less faulty. If born in 1980, Ali would have the same principles for different causes and then some, because now in this era we know better and know more!

I look around today, and there ain't many like him left. PERIOD. Black, White, Asian, Hispanic. He is truly the last of a good crop.
‪#‎RIPAli‬ ‪#‎Ali‬ ‪#‎Boomaye‬

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Nice piece; but you do know what Boomaye translates too?

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Originally Posted by ykdadamaja

If you never believed in the Devil before in your life, but watched as Muhammad Ali, who boasted himself as too fast, too pretty, who others labelled him as "The Mouth of the South" and "The Louisville Lip", at the end of it all become reduced to a shell of a man who couldn't speak, couldn't move and body started to crumple over right before our very eyes, then you would not only believe in the Devil now but you would also know that the Devil's tool was cruel irony.

God bless Ali. What he did for Black people and people of colour of our generation could only be matched by the likes of MLK, Pele, Malcolm and Mandela.

He not only helped us to have dignity. He gave us a right to express our beliefs no matter the persecution and no matter the penalties, because that right of expression and idea is what truly makes us valuable assets to this human race.

He had his faults, like all people do. But his faults were as a result of the time he was born into, and not because the material of his humanhood was any less faulty. If born in 1980, Ali would have the same principles for different causes and then some, because now in this era we know better and know more!

I look around today, and there ain't many like him left. PERIOD. Black, White, Asian, Hispanic. He is truly the last of a good crop.
‪#‎RIPAli‬ ‪#‎Ali‬ ‪#‎Boomaye‬

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I second that. Ali is THE GREATEST display what pride does to men,

first it lifts you up, allows you to get more punches than humanly possible, get up when others would be dead already, but sooner or later it demands its price back ...

RIP champ.

Beyond a boxer, way beyond, he was a natural entertainer and communicator, and not afraid to speak his mind.

He electrified not only the boxing world, but planet Earth, for a long, long time.

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Originally Posted by Britkid

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Originally Posted by ykdadamaja

If you never believed in the Devil before in your life, but watched as Muhammad Ali, who boasted himself as too fast, too pretty, who others labelled him as "The Mouth of the South" and "The Louisville Lip", at the end of it all become reduced to a shell of a man who couldn't speak, couldn't move and body started to crumple over right before our very eyes, then you would not only believe in the Devil now but you would also know that the Devil's tool was cruel irony.

God bless Ali. What he did for Black people and people of colour of our generation could only be matched by the likes of MLK, Pele, Malcolm and Mandela.

He not only helped us to have dignity. He gave us a right to express our beliefs no matter the persecution and no matter the penalties, because that right of expression and idea is what truly makes us valuable assets to this human race.

He had his faults, like all people do. But his faults were as a result of the time he was born into, and not because the material of his humanhood was any less faulty. If born in 1980, Ali would have the same principles for different causes and then some, because now in this era we know better and know more!

I look around today, and there ain't many like him left. PERIOD. Black, White, Asian, Hispanic. He is truly the last of a good crop.
‪#‎RIPAli‬ ‪#‎Ali‬ ‪#‎Boomaye‬

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Nice piece; but you do know what Boomaye translates too?

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"Kill him"... ;D;D;D;D

Truly the greatest heavyweight champion and best sport man ever.

Listening to his radio tribute reminds me he:-

Won Olympic gold medal
Wanted Sugar Ray Robinson to his manager as he was Ali's idol.
Good looking man.
Wanted to be the youngest champion but Floyd Patterson would not face him.
Came to London to beat out Enry
Beat monster Sonny Liston has the underdog.
Came to London to beat our Enry again.
Black civil rights activist.
Part time magician, poet and entertainer.
Exiled from boxing
1971 The fight
Broken jaw and loss to Norton.
Rumble in the Jungle
Thriller in Manilla
Loss and victory to Spinks
Loss to Holmes
Never cared about money, too generous for his own good and could not resist a beautiful woman.
Ali would not have changed a thing in his wonderful life. RIP

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Very sad to hear that Ali has now passed and joined Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, and Ron Lyle.

Wasn't long ago I would watch their fights on ESPN Classic and there was a certain comfort knowing that all were still alive.

Was lucky enough to see Ali with my own eyes as a kid when he was over in the UK, my parents took me to see him :cool:
Sad news and what a man he was , absolute legend.
What is incredible is that all his organs shut down but his heart kept beating for 30 Minutes after.

That right there totally sums up the man

https://twitter.com/Hanayali/status/...rc=twsrc%5Etfw

In pure boxing terms, forget all the other associated media stuff, Ali was a heavyweight who moved as quick and was as fast as your world class middleweights, a true phenomenon, probably never to be repeated. Your hand cant hit what the eye cant see. Just leave it at that.

The reason many got in to boxing and the standard bearer of the division and boxing generally.

RIP Ali

I sit here in my chair on a sad day the Greatest has past away, he gave us charisma a modern Champion.
We new this day was coming but it's still a shock RIP float like a butterfly and sting like a bee Muhammad Ali.

What the government did to this man was inhuman.... Nobody says a damned word about the professional football players who dodged the draft. But Muhammad was different

Howard Cosell on Ali.


When asked what kind of person was Ali, Cosell responded: At a dinner with him, I exused myself to go to the restroom. Later that evening my wife said as soon as I got up, Ali leaned toward her with that Ali smile and said. ..."You still with that old man?"

Cosell sat back, grinned and said...... that's the kind of person. Al....li.....was.

R.I.P.