Muhammad Ali Appreciation thread.

[Bill Paxtom]

Bill's inspirational book - how to hold on to irrational hate for many years and not learning to let it go. Best seller.

It is very easy to 'out-wit' Muhammad Ali.

Just give him a map, and ask him to point to Vietnam.

So Ali should needlessly go to a war in a foreign country where he does not know where it is and why he is going because some politician decides it is the right thing to do?

[SIZE="2"]Because he could have helped out his fellow Americans.

You know, the 'HUMANITARIAN' side of Cassius.

He didn't have to go out and shoot 'Charlie' in the Rice Fields

He could have easily worked in the Kitchen {KP} peeling Potatoes for the Real Hero's./SIZE]

Real hero is someone who asks difficult questions and do not follow the masses. Ali was right.

This might be too profound for the Ali haters on here.

Interesting,

A Chicken does the same exact thing.

[Master]

Bill's inspirational book - how to hold on to irrational hate for many years and not learning to let it go. Best seller.

It is very easy to 'out-wit' Muhammad Ali.

Just give him a map, and ask him to point to Vietnam.

So Ali should needlessly go to a war in a foreign country where he does not know where it is and why he is going because some politician decides it is the right thing to do?

[SIZE="2"]Because he could have helped out his fellow Americans.

You know, the 'HUMANITARIAN' side of Cassius.

He didn't have to go out and shoot 'Charlie' in the Rice Fields

He could have easily worked in the Kitchen {KP} peeling Potatoes for the Real Hero's./SIZE]

Real hero is someone who asks difficult questions and do not follow the masses. Ali was right.

This might be too profound for the Ali haters on here.

Interesting,

A Chicken does the same exact thing.

So does a humanitarian

[Bill Paxtom]

Cassius Clay holding none other, than a 'CHICKEN'.

Cassius > "I feel comfortable around 'Chicken'. I am what I eat."

[IamInuit]

This is just sad. @Andre puts an appreciation thread of Ali up and Pocos Bill has to then come in and attempt to crash the party. He attempts this by using an unjust war that nobody wanted to fight except guys like Nixon fearing a fabricated big red tide. The irony to this attack of course is that in the end, Ali was vindicated and history has made his case for him. For many others like Bill, the amount of hindsight is 20/20 medicine must be toxic.

Why do you use Ali as some racist example and not write about that Nazi Henry Ford or that scum bag authour Jack London? I mean if you want to revisit racism in boxing then revisit it. Don't use one event in time between two fighters in a brutal sport who were both black with one calling the other one a gorilla for the cameras. That is what a simpleton does.

If you dont have anything to say in a thread of appreciation then dont say anything at all. We all know how you feel. Its redundancy on steroids. We get calls all the time about returning you to the village. You like asshole books? Here is one I recommend just for you.

[Bill Paxtom]

All Aboard !!!



You see this guy Bill?

That is you, also failing at sarcasm while tripping over the title.

Have a nice obsession.

[brocktonblockbust]

Prime 1966 Cassius Clay versus prime Joe the brown bomber Louis

[Master]

Prime 1966 Cassius Clay versus prime Joe the brown bomber Louis

That would be a match of the 2 greatest heavyweights ever.

[Bill Paxtom]

Prime 1966 Cassius Clay versus prime Joe the brown bomber Louis

That would be a match of the 2 greatest heavyweights ever.

NAH. Only one of them was Great.

[brocktonblockbust]

One time Clay ate 2 steak dinners in midtown Manhattan after Joe Frazier gave him a ride all the way from Philly.

[C.J.Rock]

You know what makes me sick ? To see guy like Bill calling Ali a coward & a draft dodger.
Now I do not agree with Ali's religious beliefs BUT I admired the way he risked everything even his life for them. He could easily have gone to Canada if he just wanted to dodge the draft. Or ENGLAND like our illustrious future President Bill Clinton did But he stayed to face whatever punishment they dished out to him
Just think what happened to him in 1960. He went to Rome Olympics came back a hero with a gold medal. Was invited to the White House for dinner with the President.
A few days later he went into a diner in his hometown Louisville Ky & asked for a cheeseburger. He was refused service told to go to back door & get it as take away.
In a week he had dinner with the president but was then denied service in a diner purely because of the colour of his skin. As he said What good is that gold medal when I'm not considered good enough to eat a meal with you. No wonder he threw it in the river was it??
To me Ali was a brave man & in no way cowardly. He'll always be The Greatest to me

[Bill Paxtom]

C.J. Rock,

I have never called Cassius Clay 'a coward' or a 'draft dodger'. Never.

Now, I suggest you search to see where I posted those words.

You will be looking for a long time to find those words.

[TitoFan]

Cute picture, Bill. But it took me about 30 seconds.


1. Re: Bob Foster ~ "I Wanted Cassius Clay In 1968"
Primo, Primo

Cassius was 'banned' from every State Boxing Commission in the United States
at the time, except for Utah.

The money was there for Cassius $300,000.

But the 'greedy coward' wanted more.

Bob Foster >

"I can't understand it. Look at the money there 'giving' him. And he's playing
games asking for another $50,000 - which would cut into my purse."
o


1. Re: Bob Foster ~ "I Wanted Cassius Clay In 1968"
I don't believe it Primo.

Cassius was a 'true' coward.

You know it, I know it, and the 'World' knows it.




I'm sure there's more, but point made.

[Bill Paxtom]

Cute picture, Bill. But it took me about 30 seconds.


1. Re: Bob Foster ~ "I Wanted Cassius Clay In 1968"
Primo, Primo

Cassius was 'banned' from every State Boxing Commission in the United States
at the time, except for Utah.

The money was there for Cassius $300,000.

But the 'greedy coward' wanted more.

Bob Foster >

"I can't understand it. Look at the money there 'giving' him. And he's playing
games asking for another $50,000 - which would cut into my purse."
o


1. Re: Bob Foster ~ "I Wanted Cassius Clay In 1968"
I don't believe it Primo.

Cassius was a 'true' coward.

You know it, I know it, and the 'World' knows it.




I'm sure there's more, but point made.

I never said that. I was quoting Bob Foster.

It was 'Sheriff' Bob Foster who said that.

[brocktonblockbust]

It was bad enough that he was a draft dodger but then he started to call Joe Louis an Uncle Tom for having fought so gallantly and valiantly for the United States in world war 2

[frasd]

Just started reading this thread from the last page up and it doesn't sound like an Ali appreciation thread at all.