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What a Boxer, what a Man and a childhood hero to me !!

Gutted

"No Vietcong ever called me nigger"...One of his most powerful punches.

Sad day......fantastic caracteur...so pretty so funny so fast

Sad day....a noble champion right to the end

Great loss. He is still the greatest.

The Sarge wrote:What a Boxer, what a Man and a childhood hero to me !!

My thoughts exactly. RIP

A great boxer who everyone loved watching but badly advised and should have stopped 5 years earlier.

Used to have a big poster on my bedroom wall of Ali standing over a badly beaten Joe Frazier. Some fighter ! Most of the current heavyweights couldn't lace his gloves. Hero (thumbs)

Allan F wrote:Used to have a big poster on my bedroom wall of Ali standing over a badly beaten Joe Frazier. Some fighter ! Most of the current heavyweights couldn't lace his gloves. Hero (thumbs)

Spent a little time watching Ali fighting on You Tube this evening. He moved so very, very fast; hands and feet.

Then moved on to Tyson, completely different fighting style.

I think with Ali, it was much more than the fighting he was also brave in his private life- refusing to fight in a war he didn't believe in took 3-4 years of his boxing career (arguably his best years) from him. The wit, charm and (in later life) modesty (!) was also really something.