Vale Muhammad Ali

[ratsmac]

Re: Vale Muhammad Ali

RIP Champ

[bulldogtragic]

Re: Vale Muhammad Ali

I am envious that you got to meet him. He's one on my list that I missed out on but from your description it sounds exactly how I would have expected it to have been like.

This is why I find modern day boxing so hard to be passionate about. There's fewer and fewer really decent and likeable people seemingly (I was last a real fan of Kostya Tszyu, although I don't mind Danny Green). They don't understand showmanship versus saying or doing dumb things to give faux atmosphere. Nor using their position to fight for morally right positions and for others without a voice, even if it means being benched. I find Mayweather and those like him just completely unlikeable. Even recently classily potting Donald Trump from severe illness was just the figurative upper cut a champ like him makes.

[jeemak]

Re: Vale Muhammad Ali

He was a true champion in the ring. He was amazing.

As I grew I learned of the way he treated Frazier outside of it, the things he said, the way he sold himself out to denigrate him in a most horrible way given the climate of the times. It's always made it hard for me to have the same respect and adulation others have for him.