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OT: Muhammad Ali dead at 74

MrsScrew

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EDIT: Ali dead at age 74.

RIP to the greatest.

I Iknow everyone hates NJ dot com but I think everyone agrees that Jerry Izenberg was not one to hate. His column today on the death of Ali:

http://www.nj.com/sports/index.ssf/...the_gre.html#incart_2box_nj-homepage-featured

multiple media outlets are reporting that Muhammad Ali is on life support and near death. Truly one of the greatest boxers. Watching him box is a fond memory from my youth.
Float like a butterfly....sting like a bee.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ndary-boxer-s-condition-takes-turn-worse.html
 
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MrsScrew said:
multiple media outlets are reporting that Muhammad Ali is on life support and near death. Truly one of the greatest boxers. Watching him box is a fond memory from my youth.
Float like a butterfly....sting like a bee.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ndary-boxer-s-condition-takes-turn-worse.html
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I give him a lot of credit for sticking to his beliefs. At first I was very skeptical about him being a conscientious objector based on his new found religion, but he stayed with it all these years. Fondly remember him lighting the Olympic torch.
 
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Truly one of the great human of my life time, going from a young man who was vilified by many in this country for his beliefs and his often "in your face" behavior way back before that had become mainstream to a global icon. Just an amazing man. And this from someone who has zero interest in boxing.
 
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It's interesting the OP link is from a UK site, yet the USA sites are either slower to report or more cautious with this kind of news. Not sure if the USA sites need permission from the family (HIPPA?) to report and the UK sites don't.
 
@Abro1975 if you do a google search there are multiple US an UK sites reporting this. who got it out first, I don't know.

HIPAA (not HIPPA) regs would not apply here unless someone in the hospital has been found to be the one to give the information out.
 
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I was always a fan, even in the beginning....... There were so many boxing fans that hated him because of his bragging style, not understanding it was mostly self promotion, and was very good for the sport.

The sad thing was that he always took pride in the fact that he emerged out of fights looking good.... But in later years he took way too much punishment, and we see the end result
 
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Just like the U.S. model vs the Euro model weather forecasts.. Never in agreement. Whether he leaves us now or next year it will be devastating for many of us from my generation .
My hero.
 
I was Frazier man, so naturally did not like Ali. But as time passed came to realize not only how great he was (and he was the best, hands down - his time at the top (two generations of heavyweights) and his competition was so much better than Dempsey/Louis/Marciano), but a;sp what he did for boxing. The sport slowly died away once he left the stage. Hope he gets off the canvas at least one more time.
 
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He was boxing.

He was the first international sports superstar.

Common people all over the world knew Ali.

The only other person who came close was Bruce Lee.
 
I remember his fights with Frazier, amazing. I had the good fortune of meeting Ali back in the 80's, his speech and movement slowed somewhat already. A true gentleman, we sparred for a few seconds, chatted, certainly something that I'll never forget.
 
Sorry if I misspelled the Keanu Reeves Matrix quote. That was the first I heard about Ali on life support. Maybe I should've said Holy sh*t!!!
 
Still remember listening to the transistor radio on March 9, 1971 for news reports of the Ali-Frazier fight (I) at Madison Square Garden. AP was limited to 50 words/round reporting as a news organization. I was actually rooting for Frazier because I didn't like the "in-your-face" persona of Ali. But he was the last boxer I actually followed and the first athlete I remember that had that "type" of attitude towards himself and everyone else.

I know many fans still follow boxing and other similar forms of sport. But after Ali, I didn't care about boxing as a sport.

For Rutgers fans, after Ali was stripped of his title for refusing mandatory (i.e. The Draft) military service, he spoke on college campuses. At Rutgers, he spoke at the Rutgers cafeteria/field house (1968) which is today's Records Hall.

He had his boxing license restored and for the first time in history, an undefeated heavyweight champion (Joe Frazier) fought an undefeated former heavyweight champion (Mohammed Ali, a.k.a. Cassius Clay). His support of Ali, also kick-started the career of the late sportscaster Howard Cosell.

Frankly, for the punishment he took to his body and head, I'm amazed he made it to 74 years old. R.I.P. to a man whose sports' reputation stretched around the planet and through generations.
 
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For those too young, this is the equivalent of having Babe Ruth and Wilt Chamberlain and Wayne Gretzky pass away. It's that big.
 
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For those too young, this is the equivalent of having Babe Ruth and Wilt Chamberlain and Wayne Gretzky pass away. It's that big.
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TBF, I feel like those around my age might be more familiar with Ali than any of those athletes.
 
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TBF, I feel like those around my age might be more familiar with Ali than any of those athletes.
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I was going to say, two of those were older than Ali. Like having Lebron James, Kobe, and Jordan all at once except they have never had the politcal and social stature that Ali xommanded.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.. So sad we're saying...RIP.
 
"The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life."
-Muhammad Ali

R.I.P. to THE GREATEST
 
I'm younger so he wasn't really part of my growing up. Of course I knew who he was, but Tyson was the spotlight during my growing up From what I saw on Ali I concluded 1. He was and is the greatest. 2. I never like him. Boxing is a dead sport now.
 
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back in the day you had to go to a movie house to see such a fight.... this particular one I went to the Fox in Hackensack......place was packed....the only bad thing about it back then was that the call of the fight by the announcers could not be heard.... so you pretty much
just watched it and make your own assumptions about who won what round....
 
I will be raising many glasses for many toasts today. This is my all time hero. You can say what you want about his politics but unless you were there you will never get what this man meant to us a country and to the world.Thanks champ.
 
Ironic that in refusing the draft, he was universally branded by the media as a coward, when he was showing more courage than I could ever hope to summon. Had he entered the Armed Forces, he would have been assigned to Special Services and would have never seen combat - he'd have been a younger version of Bob Hope. Would have been an American hero. Instead, he did it his way - and became an American hero.
 
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Perhaps my biggest sports hero ever. The man had skills that are not typically associated with a heavyweight. An aura that far surpassed boxing or sports in general. R.I.P. Champ. On to round 16.
 
Back when heavyweight boxing mattered. A great time for the sport. Ali, Frazier, Foreman. RIP Champ
 
He was the greatest on a lot of levels that they don't measure greatness on any more.
 
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For Rutgers fans, after Ali was stripped of his title for refusing mandatory (i.e. The Draft) military service,.[/QUOTE]

I loved the guy but he was NOT stripped of his title for refusing military service. That's just another part of the Ali myth.
 
RIP.

man, this year has been brutal for famous deaths.

Ali was the icons of icons. He transcended sports, pop culture and ulimately American culture.
 
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