Muhammad Ali This is your Life

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[Mars_ax]

That either happened before the 2nd fight @MSG or the 3rd fight in Manilla, my guess is, it was before the 2nd fight at Madison Square Garden. Howard Cosell looked like he was going to piss himself when the scuffle broke out, I remember watching that live.

Ali was a great fighter, but at times he could be an asshole as a human being. I just always saw Ali as an entertainer and never took a lot of the social/political shit that came out of his mouth seriously. He seems to have a love/hate relationship with his fans, revered by millions of boxing fans all over the world and loathed by millions of others.

[brocktonblockbust]

That either happened before the 2nd fight @MSG or the 3rd fight in Manilla, my guess is, it was before the 2nd fight at Madison Square Garden. Howard Cosell looked like he was going to piss himself when the scuffle broke out, I remember watching that live.

Ali was a great fighter, but at times he could be an asshole as a human being. I just always saw Ali as an entertainer and never took a lot of the social/political shit that came out of his mouth seriously. He seems to have a love/hate relationship with his fans, revered by millions of boxing fans all over the world and loathed by millions of others.

he did alot of fucked up things in his life---rude and hurtful and mean things---bordering on cruel---very hypocritical for amna who was supposed to be a moral Muslim human rights activist etc.... picking on his black brothers and calling them gorilla and monkey and ugly and uncle tom and you name it---quite rude and hurtful and it reaklly did hurt peoples feeligns. Joe Frazier for sure had his feeling shurt several times. It was not all hype and fight promo---it was genuine meanness that Ali used---some OK I will admit was to psyche out his ooponents but he went too far and really racially abused several black fighters---then later he would retract his words and then late again go back and insult several fighters. He was also quite abusive and rude to his wife and a big cheater as well.

I say he had his moments of glory but at other times he STANK to high heaven with hypocrisy and boorishness. Also his big fucking mouth and braggadoccio really came back to get him poetically didnt it now?

[Mars_ax]

@brocktonblockbust - I always hated that gay shit that went on between Ali and Howard Cosell, I thought the two were going to blow each other, or probably did.
Life has a way of eventually humbling all of us, no-matter how great we might think we are, Ali went from being king of the world to a frail physical train wreck who can't wipe his own ass. I think it's sad and tragic, and I feel empathy for Ali as a human being, but i'm sure there's more then a few who feel like what comes around goes around, and Ali got what he deserved.

[Master]

Ali was the greatest heavyweight ever and people do not appreciate that because of the outside behaviour.

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Ali was the greatest heavyweight ever and people do not appreciate that because of the outside behaviour.

Jack Johnson smokes Ali in 6.

anyway I agree his 2 careers are astounding---Ali the lightning bolt and then Ali the flat footed rope a doper----both champions!

Never see that kind of versatility again.