Muhammad Ali

[Foreigner]

I posted yesterday on Ali being hospitalised. Looks like he's not going to be around too long:

'It's a matter of hours': Stark warning from Muhammad Ali's doctors as legendary boxer remains on life support and family 'start making funeral arrangements' | Daily Mail Online

 

[medhead]

Sad. But then he looked shocking back at the Barcelona olympics, what was that 1992?

 

[love_the_life]

I suppose we should not be surprised but will be sad to have the passing of such a legend.

 

[Foreigner]

Some pics of The Greatest on the Internet:

 

[Foreigner]

And a few more:

 

[cosi]

Gone, passed away and only 74.

Sad

 

[Foreigner]

What a strong and courageous soul...

Sad indeed.

 

[love_the_life]

Yes, it is sad. I've just seen the news reports.

 

[sausagefingers]

“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, hospitalised a brick. I’m so mean, I make medicine sick.”

 

[kalboy]

Sad news on his passing, RIP Cassius Marcellus Clay.
I remember the incident on the Don Lane show where Bert Newton nearly got clobbered.

 

[serfty]

Sad news on his passing, RIP Cassius Marcellus Clay.
I remember the incident on the Don Lane show where Bert Newton nearly got clobbered.

Wasn't it a Logies ...

 

[Hvr]

Wasn't it a Logies ...

Yes it was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWKyDGGptA4

 

[Foreigner]

Sad news on his passing, RIP Cassius Marcellus Clay.
I remember the incident on the Don Lane show where Bert Newton nearly got clobbered.

Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr. He would have corrected Muhammad Ali.

 

[kalboy]

I stand corrected, 38 years I cant beleive it was that was long ago ?
Good find on the video Hvr, he surely was a sharp man.

 

[Foreigner]

Articles by Time magazine and ESPN give insight to Ali:

http://time.com/muhammad-ali-dead/

http://espn.go.com/sports/boxing/ali/news/story?id=2236756

 

[prozac]

I once saw Ali close up from a vantage point atop a shop awning in South Shields as he passed by in an open top double deck bus. He came to Shields to be married, or to have his Muslim marriage recognised in the Yemeni mosque there.

 

[serfty]

Saw him from about 4 metres looking down from the aisle at the MCG bay M27 before the 1998 grand final as his car came up the access chute.

 

[Limewood]

Rather interesting slant on Pickering re Ali and his religion last week.

 

[junbugging]

"Interesting" is one characterization.

"Freakin' nuts" would be more accurate in my opinion.

 

[prozac]

I did think it odd that he was not buried immediately. I also think he was probably manipulated by hangers-on throughout his career.