[Bobb Johnson]

Rest In Peace Champ

Quote:

Muhammad Ali, the silver-tongued boxer and civil rights champion who famously proclaimed himself "The Greatest" and then spent a lifetime living up to the billing, is dead.

Ali died Friday at a Phoenix-area hospital, where he had spent the past few days being treated for respiratory complications, a family spokesman confirmed to NBC News. He was 74.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/sports/muham...74-n584776

http://abcnews.go.com/US/muhammad-ali-di...d=18391211

http://kdvr.com/2016/06/03/muhammad-ali-...l-reports/

[Quintus Curtius]

One of the true greats.

I prefer to remember him for his greatest moment. The comeback upset against Foreman in Zaire. Truly inspiring, and it made a big impression on me:

https://qcurtius.com/2015/10/04/the-rumb...s-foreman/

If you guys haven't seen the movie "When We Were Kings," you really should check it out.

After seeing that, you'll be ready to take on the entire world.

[All or Nothing]

(06-04-2016 12:11 AM)Quintus Curtius Wrote:  

If you guys haven't seen the movie "When We Were Kings," you really should check it out.

After seeing that, you'll be ready to take on the entire world.

Checking out the movie. Looks like it will be a good one to watch.

Muhammed Ali was definitely one of the most agile boxers to ever enter the ring and had a unique style that revolutionized the game.

Also, a top notch shit talker.

[CynicalContrarian]

74 for an active boxer isn't too bad all things considered. Even if his health wasn't that great for the past decade or so.
Although I wonder how long he would have lasted if he had never taken so much head trauma?

[Quintus Curtius]

There was just something about him.

There was a goodness, an honesty, a sincerity that just radiated out from him. Everyone who knew him said the same thing, and I don't think it was just because they were star-struck.

Like all men, he wasn't perfect. But anyone who knows what it's like to battle for self-respect, for a place in the world, and for the right to be treated with dignity, will always find in him a hero.

[booshala]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQpl7AxSgsE

[kaotic]

QC took the words out my mouth, he just radiated with life, joy, and happiness.

Honestly my first memory of him were interviews, the most serious one burned into my head was him at the torch ceremony in the Atlanta Olympics - gave me chills.

I have his famous Sonny Liston knockdown, I got it as a gift years ago, took it down when I moved things around, it's about time it goes back up.

[CynicalContrarian]

Plus, to be honest. He succeeded in life at a time that wasn't really to his favour.

[puckerman]

He even had his own cartoon show. IMDB says he did provide his voice to the show. The series lasted only 13 episodes:

[Buakaw]

This is my favorite photo of him. It sat on the wall of my MMA gym locker room and I saw it every time I came to train. For some reason I find it inspirational.
I am too young to have seen him in his prime but I've seen a lot of his fights on Youtube. It's Ali, Arnold and Buakow that's been my major rolemodels when it comes to training and motivation.

RIP

   

[porscheguy]

"His momma called him Clay, I'm gonna call him Clay."

[RaccoonFace]

(06-04-2016 12:47 AM)Quintus Curtius Wrote:  

There was just something about him.

There was a goodness, an honesty, a sincerity that just radiated out from him. Everyone who knew him said the same thing, and I don't think it was just because they were star-struck.

Like all men, he wasn't perfect. But anyone who knows what it's like to battle for self-respect, for a place in the world, and for the right to be treated with dignity, will always find in him a hero.

[Tyrion]

Rest in peace Muhammad Ali!!

Greatest Muslim public figure in United States along with MalcomX

[Saweeep]

Very sad news to wake up to this morning.

“I’ve wrestled with alligators,
I’ve tussled with a whale.
I done handcuffed lightning
And throw thunder in jail.
You know I’m bad.
just last week, I murdered a rock,
Injured a stone, Hospitalized a brick.
I’m so mean, I make medicine sick.”

RIP BIG MAN.

[Traktor]

[AboveAverageJoe]

Glad he has been released from the physical prison his mind has been in for over a decade. It was sad to see such a great athlete reduced to an old man who could barely walk and talk, but whose mind reportedly was still sharp.

[Buck Wild]

(06-04-2016 12:47 AM)Quintus Curtius Wrote:  

There was just something about him.

There was a goodness, an honesty, a sincerity that just radiated out from him. Everyone who knew him said the same thing, and I don't think it was just because they were star-struck.

Like all men, he wasn't perfect. But anyone who knows what it's like to battle for self-respect, for a place in the world, and for the right to be treated with dignity, will always find in him a hero.

Well put.

Rest in peace, champ.

[kbell]

RIP. I read he was sick but didn't think he would die from it.

[El Chinito loco]

The greatest thing about Muhammad Ali is that he always came back to avenge his losses too except the very end when his physical issues were coming to the forefront.

There are just some legendary fights, upsets, and rivalries that easily make him the greatest heavyweight of all time.

Not to mention he knocked out George motherfucking' Foreman who was an absolute beast well into his 40's.

(06-04-2016 01:52 AM)puckerman Wrote:  

He even had his own cartoon show. IMDB says he did provide his voice to the show. The series lasted only 13 episodes:

Would be kind of amusing if that entire cartoon series was just him beating Foreman, Frazier, or Liston in a different plot scenario every episode.

[Soyouz]

RIP champ, you can now spar in heaven with Rocky Marciano, Joe Louis, Jack Dempsey, Jack Johnshon.... and a certain Joe Frazier would surely love a 4th fight. Thanks for all the good memories!

[Libertas]

Ali was one of the few men in recent times who I can think of that personified the Homeric ideal - the ideal of the hero, which originally meant "he who is worthy," who built a lifestyle around kleos - "everlasting renown" or "everlasting glory." The ideal was to achieve a sort of immortality, to have your name be rolled off the lips of endless generations. But to do this you had to do things that are "worthy" of such a status.

Ali did all of that in more ways than one. Truly an archetype for what I think the foundation of the masculine lifestyle is, as elucidated in Homer.

Now he can rest on his achievements, finally.

[BlackHat]

He is one of my idols. What he is doing can be classified as a SJW act today, but I don't know he just speaks common sense.

Giving a F.U at the peak of the cold war risking his whole career for his ideals.
This guy didn't have higher education, but time proved him right. He had more common sense than nearly all those academia fools out there.

Balls of fucking steel.

[puckerman]

Here he is singing with Sam Cooke:

Here is Ali's short fight with Gorilla Monsoon. It seems funnier visualizing than actually seeing it on video:

Finally, here's Ali with Howard Cosell. He loved to say that he "made Ali famous":

[Aquiles_Baesta_Parada]

(06-04-2016 02:39 AM)porscheguy Wrote:  

"His momma called him Clay, I'm gonna call him Clay."

Eeeeverytime I start talking about boxing, a white man gotta pull Rocky Marciano out his ass!!!!


RIP CHAMP

Greatest of all time!






I might have to spend the weekend watching everything about him and everything boxing related.


Enjoy this scene from Raging Bull fellas.
Boxing is an art

[Atlanta Man]

The Greatest. He was the first heavyweight to really move around the ring with speed and poise as well as deliver powerful punches with knockout power. He changed the game. Rest in peace.