Sad Ali picture... Legend Deteriorating Dramatically in last 12 months

[Kev]

That is a saddening picture. Thats the thing with father time it waits for noone. And suffering from illness the overall picture looks even more dramatic....

He is indeed still a champ, no matter how weak he is looking...

To be honest Danny Williams usually looks the same whenever he fights, same vacant stare and aura of lifelessness :P

Ouch!!

If you wanna post like that then you should get over to my "Will Raleights return?" thread! :P

There is no need to mention the name Danny Williams on this thread. Most tasteless!!

I'm actually being an optimist. I mean all you lot are saying how bad Ali looks now as if his life is over, but Danny still fights as a professianal looking pretty much the same, apart from a bigger wasitline and a food trolley instead of a walking frame

[Gandalf]

That is a saddening picture. Thats the thing with father time it waits for noone. And suffering from illness the overall picture looks even more dramatic....

He is indeed still a champ, no matter how weak he is looking...

To be honest Danny Williams usually looks the same whenever he fights, same vacant stare and aura of lifelessness :P

Ouch!!

If you wanna post like that then you should get over to my "Will Raleights return?" thread! :P

There is no need to mention the name Danny Williams on this thread. Most tasteless!!

I'm actually being an optimist. I mean all you lot are saying how bad Ali looks now as if his life is over, but Danny still fights as a professianal looking pretty much the same, apart from a bigger wasitline and a food trolley instead of a walking frame

The Ali picture is sad, but for me it is inevitable that a man at his age and with his condition would start to show wear and tear....

As Ali says, he has lived a life that has been filled with amazing accomplishments. To live a far longer life and achieve very little is perhaps more tragic. Its a matter of perspective...

He is still here and his life, though now more difficult, is still very much intact...

Its not all sadness....

[smashup]

He changed the US for Black Americans
He was a one man movement
My dad took me to see him when i was a nipper,still got the pics

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It's very sad to see.

The Parkinson's has taken it's toll as he looks a lot older than 64.

He's had to live with it a lot longer than most, so it was inevitable.

[smashup]

Some of the fights he was in,although legendary bouts were so brutal.
Frazier springs to mind when neither could come out for the 15th round.
Ali collapses moments after and is dragged to his stool.
He took some really bad punishment over the years,anyone who's seen the Holmes fight will agree.
Unreal they even let him climb through the ropes that night.
Was a disgrace

[Gandalf]

Some of the fights he was in,although legendary bouts were so brutal.
Frazier springs to mind when neither could come out for the 15th round.
Ali collapses moments after and is dragged to his stool.
He took some really bad punishment over the years,anyone who's seen the Holmes fight will agree.
Unreal they even let him climb through the ropes that night.
Was a disgrace

He chose to do it, and as fight fans we should not knock him for it....

He is a special person, and he did what most of us can and will not do...

He is a boxing legend. No less....

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He ain't gonna last long with posts like that methinks

[Lance Uppercut]

It's very sad to see.

The Parkinson's has taken it's toll as he looks a lot older than 64.

He's had to live with it a lot longer than most, so it was inevitable.

Not to nit-pick, but Ali has Pugilistic Dementia(Parkinson like symtoms, punch drunk), he doesn't actually have Parkinson's disease. A lot boxing fans refer to it as ordinary Parkinsons disease in order absolve boxing of any blame.

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Some of the fights he was in,although legendary bouts were so brutal.
Frazier springs to mind when neither could come out for the 15th round.
Ali collapses moments after and is dragged to his stool.
He took some really bad punishment over the years,anyone who's seen the Holmes fight will agree.
Unreal they even let him climb through the ropes that night.
Was a disgrace

I agree.

He was taking dopamine tablets in 1980, so they must have known that he had Parkinson's.

The boxing authorities & Herbert Muhammad should hang their heads in shame.

[AdamGB]

Shocking pic and just one look at his eyes tell's you there is clearly no-one behind the wheel

Nah, I don't think that that's the case, to my knowledge that's not how the condition affects him is it

[X]

So, so sad to see such a maginficent athlete and vivacious personality reduced to this.

A bit rich coming from the man who has said many times he couldnt give a F*** about celebrity deaths or misfortunes

True.

Howver my point was that I cannot give a fuck if someone I don't know or care about dies. Especially when all of society goes into tooth gnashing bleating about it simply because they are expected to.

Muhammad Ali means a lot to me, and I will be genuinely grieving when the time comes.

Others, to whom he means nothing, will not. At least they will be being honest - like I am.

[Jamoie]

It's very sad to see.

The Parkinson's has taken it's toll as he looks a lot older than 64.

He's had to live with it a lot longer than most, so it was inevitable.

Not to nit-pick, but Ali has Pugilistic Dementia(Parkinson like symtoms, punch drunk), he doesn't actually have Parkinson's disease. A lot boxing fans refer to it as ordinary Parkinsons disease in order absolve boxing of any blame.

Is that true then? I was always under the impression that he had Parkinsons, nothing to do with boxing. Just like Michael J Fox and all the other non-boxers.

[AdamGB]

WHAT IS EVEN SADDER THEN THIS PHOTO IS THAT THIS MAN BELIEVES IN A FALSE GOD AND A FALSE PROPHET. MAYBE SOMEONE CAN SAVE HIS SOUL BY TELLING HIM THE ONLY WAY TO GOD IS THROUGH JESUS AND THE ONLY WAY FOR SALVATION IS TO BELIEVE IN JESUS. WHAT'S WORSE IS THE SAD FACT THAT AFTER HE DIES FROM THIS HORRIBLE DEATH HE WILL BURN IN ETERNAL HELL FOR BEING A MUSLIM AND BELIEVING IN A FALSE RELIGION ISLAM

Go troll some other forum fuck face.

Don't feed the trolls people...

[Jamoie]

WHAT IS EVEN SADDER THEN THIS PHOTO IS THAT THIS MAN BELIEVES IN A FALSE GOD AND A FALSE PROPHET. MAYBE SOMEONE CAN SAVE HIS SOUL BY TELLING HIM THE ONLY WAY TO GOD IS THROUGH JESUS AND THE ONLY WAY FOR SALVATION IS TO BELIEVE IN JESUS. WHAT'S WORSE IS THE SAD FACT THAT AFTER HE DIES FROM THIS HORRIBLE DEATH HE WILL BURN IN ETERNAL HELL FOR BEING A MUSLIM AND BELIEVING IN A FALSE RELIGION ISLAM

Oh and sad click for you.
Who says Jesus is the way also? Stop being so narrow minded and stick to the topic eh.

[smashup]

It's very sad to see.

The Parkinson's has taken it's toll as he looks a lot older than 64.

He's had to live with it a lot longer than most, so it was inevitable.

Not to nit-pick, but Ali has Pugilistic Dementia(Parkinson like symtoms, punch drunk), he doesn't actually have Parkinson's disease. A lot boxing fans refer to it as ordinary Parkinsons disease in order absolve boxing of any blame.

Is that true then? I was always under the impression that he had Parkinsons, nothing to do with boxing. Just like Michael J Fox and all the other non-boxers.

Spot on fella
http://www.factmonster.com/spot/malitimeline1.html
scroll down to the 1980's