Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali has been placed on life support and his family have been warned that it 'won't be long until he passes away', a report has claimed.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3624328/Muhammad-Ali-life-support-family-rushing-bedside-legendary-boxer-s-condition-takes-turn-worse.html#ixzz4AYZGw5Zt

What a horrible way to go.

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My dad followed his early fights, when he fought under Cassius Clay, and not much after that; it really upset my father that he didn't want to go serve - not that he changed his name - not that he became a Muslim - that he didn't want to serve in the Army!

But the man had some serious savoir fairé - moxi about him ...between Mohammad Ali and Howard Cosell they made listening to boxing on the radio a real entertaining ring side seat.

https://youtu.be/r4yCGvoiHZA

In his prime, he was the greatest of all time.

This fight shows he could have beaten any boxer, including Tyson.

Brutal sport, ranks with dogfights and cock fighting.

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SO sad...

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jun/04/muhammad-ali-dies


R.I.P. "The Greatest.."

HE was knocked down by Henry Cooper, he did not know what day it was, he was saved by his second Angelo Dundee who cut the tapes on Ali's gloves so giving him time to recover from"" Henry's Hammer".

Should have been Henry's victory!

who knows what would have happened in the future
if it had been?

He was a good pugilist and clearly a cheat.

He was a real character.

RIP Ali
May you float off like a butterfly

BREAKING News   Jun 4 2016, 4:15 am ET           
Muhammad Ali, 'The Greatest of All Time', Dead at 74
by Jon Schuppe

TY for the memories, listening to your fights broadcast on our radio, was something our whole family got caught up in.
I'm quite certain that you made a lot of people very wealthy. RIP and suffer no more from your Parkinson's disease.  

"I'm gonna float like a butterfly and sting like a bee
George can't hit what his hands can't see.
Now you see me. Now you don't.
He thinks he will, but I know he won't.
They tell me George is good, but I'm twice as nice
And I'm gonna stick to his butt like white on rice
Cassius is the greatest of all time, of all time."
Muhammad Ali- 1974

Fuzzy Zack wrote:"I'm gonna float like a butterfly and sting like a bee
George can't hit what his hands can't see.
Now you see me. Now you don't.
He thinks he will, but I know he won't.
They tell me George is good, but I'm twice as nice
And I'm gonna stick to his butt like white on rice
Cassius is the greatest of all time, of all time."
Muhammad Ali- 1974

And to be such a young man, fighting for his country and won a GOLD MEDAL in boxing

Muhammad Ali wins 1960 Olympic gold medal
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By Nick ZaccardiJun 4, 2016, 12:21 AM EDT

http://olympics.nbcsports.com/2016/06/04/muhammad-ali-wins-olympic-gold-medal-rome-1960-video/

Before he became “The Greatest,” Muhammad Ali became an Olympic champion.
Ali, who died Friday at age 74, was 18 years old when he earned a light heavyweight gold medal at the 1960 Rome Olympics.
Already a prodigy, Sports Illustrated tapped Ali to be the only American to win boxing gold at those Games.
“Teenage Cassius Clay, who has been called another [Floyd] Patterson, was the only American to score a knockout in the Olympic trials,” the magazine wrote.
Ali proved the publication prophetic, though two other American fighters also took gold in Rome.
“The most popular U.S. win was that of lighthearted Light Heavyweight Cassius Marcellus Clay,” SI wrote afterward. “It took two rounds for Clay to solve the southpaw attack of Poland’s Zbigniew Pietrzykowski. But in the third he established instant command and toyed with the defenseless Pole. At 18, Clay was the best of our boxers in Rome, but he never caught a really hard punch. Could he take it if hurt? ‘Man,’ says Clay. ‘I don’t want ever to get hurt.'”
It would be another three-plus years until Ali beat Sonny Liston and changed his name from Cassius Clay.
Ali reportedly threw his gold medal in a river after the Rome Games but was given a replacement at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, where he famously lit the cauldron.

Do you remember the reason Clay threw his Gold Medal into the river?

George Is said to be heartbroken

Great Boxer, may he R.I.P.

He excelled at showmanship and had the ability to be liked whilst being arrogant.
He was simply unique.





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUM8SQ_rSGk

Boxing legend Muhammad Ali - one of the world's greatest sporting figures - passed away late Friday evening at the age of 74. The former world heavyweight champion died at a hospital in Phoenix, Arizona, having been admitted on Thursday.



But you knew there was no way a man like Ali, who built his larger-than-life persona on the back of an incredible gift for gab and the ability to captivate an audience like none other, would go out without some final words of his own.
This is what he wrote in his 2013 autobiography, The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey.

How I Would Like To Be Remembered

"I would like to be remembered as a man who won the heavyweight title three times, who was humorous, and who treated everyone right. As a man who never looked down on those who looked up to him, and who helped as many people as he could. As a man who stood up for his beliefs no matter what. As a man who tried to unite all humankind through faith and love. And if all that's too much, then I guess I'd settle for being remembered only as a great boxer who became a leader and a champion of his people. And I wouldn't even mind if folks forgot how pretty I was."

Read more at http://www.sunnyskyz.com/good-news/1661/Muhammad-Ali-Wrote-His-Own-Eulogy-And-It-s-Just-Perfect#kolYm0MM4K4w6iyj.99

Nice. He was a real legend.

RIP to a true legend.