Muhammad Ali to Lead the parade at Olympic openings

[THE PHILOSOPHER]

I know you're mums know who ali is but that's hardly a ringing endorsement is it! My mum knows who the jackson five are but hasn't got a clue who i.e ludovico einaudi or pink floyd are! lol A lot of americans and westerners in general are quite ignorant.

Ali's not the best boxer ever, that would be ray robinson, laszlo papp, stevenson, greb etc! He's not the greatest HW ever either, most of the post 70's boxers would beat him i.e tyson, wlad, lewis, vitali, prime bowe etc

I laugh my arse off when i hear the klit's wouldn't do well in ali's era (which mainly consisted of sub 200lb fighters as i have shown lol) yet the only half decent europeans ali fought (the wall well and truly still up!) were 185lb henry cooper RIP (who today would be a cruiserweight journeyman) should by rights have a brutal KO win over PRIME cassius, And B level HW and featherfist joe bugner (who was notorious for not even trying in a fight and who was just in the ring to make a living) who laughably and quite easily went the distance with both men (the frazier fight was very close in fact!) and ali was hospitalised after the his bugner fight!! Bugner was swimming in the hotel pool straight after lol

Neither cooper or bugner are remotely close to the level of the superheavyweights of recent years....Hell even 195lb southpaw karl milenberger frustrated the hell out of ali and ali has since said karl was his trickiest EVER fight! What does that tell you in this age of southpaws and european champions?

Im sorry to shatter your illusions on the crappyness of that era and the 180lb AMERICAN fighters ali was lining up to humiliate, yes there were some great fights, buts thats because most of them were limited fighters who didn't know how to keep each other at bay like i.e kllitschkos do....

And the statement of 'He's the greatest of all time!' nonsense, how do you measure such a thing? Sports go back millennia after millennia, how do you know there has not been greater sportsmen than ali?

In terms of what they achieved in there respective sports there were many ppl even over the last century who far surpass what ali did in his, far surpass!! Iv named many already, Just because you and your mums are ignorant to them or TV doesn't show them doesn't mean they were no good!

Jesse owens is the greatest BLACK sportsmen ever anyway if we are to judge them the way we do ali!

Ali is a product of the first media age, only the west really knew who ali was (america being the epi centre of the TV age) because of the advent of TV and there being only 4 channels lol America and the west were dominated by its media, If he were around today with the multiple media formats in a more global age he would not be as notorious/infamous, He'd be just another american gobshite....