Boxing legend Muhammad Ali dies aged 74

[Goofy]

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/9874/production/_89882093_89882033.jpg

Muhammad Ali has died at the age of 74, a family spokesman has said.

The former world heavyweight boxing champion, one of the world's best-known sportsmen, died at a hospital in the US city of Phoenix, Arizona, after being admitted on Thursday.

He was suffering from a respiratory illness, a condition that was complicated by Parkinson's disease.

The funeral will take place in Ali's hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, his family said in a statement.

Born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Ali shot to fame by winning light-heavyweight gold at the 1960 Rome Olympics.

Nicknamed "The Greatest", the American beat Sonny Liston in 1964 to win his first world title and became the first boxer to capture a world heavyweight title on three separate occasions.

He eventually retired in 1981, having won 56 of his 61 fights.

[Goofy]

:sad2:

[RBP]

:rip:

[DemonGeminiX]

:rip:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

http://i.imgur.com/LPlFsdY.jpg

:rip:

[Noilly Pratt]

:rip: sad. I remember as a kid watching "the thrilla in Manilla" live on TV,

[FBD]

One of the first who openly told the Neocon Warmongers to get lost.....................at great cost to himself I might add.


http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cmtl3W3wQkY/UZ-3yvkrHEI/AAAAAAAAMf4/QbwASi9rxsI/s320/Muhammad+Ali+Quotes+(5).png



“My conscience won’t let me go shoot my brother, or some darker people, or some poor hungry people in the mud for big powerful America. And shoot them for what? They never called me nigger, they never lynched me, they didn’t put no dogs on me, they didn’t rob me of my nationality, rape and kill my mother and father.

Shoot them for what? How can I shoot them poor people? Just take me to jail. Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights.

This is the day when such evils must come to an end. I have been warned that to take such a stand would cost me millions of dollars. But I have said it once and I will say it again. The real enemy of my people is here.

I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality. If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow.

I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years.”

[PorkChopSandwiches]

:rip:









Points :coat:

[RBP]

I was driving home last night about 12:30 am listening to Steve Wynn and Don King trading Ali stories on FNC.

Fascinating stuff.

[lost in melb.]

One of a kind!

[Goofy]

:rip:









Points :coat:

:slap:








It's the first time i'm really sad to be taking my points :(

[deebakes]

only because he was on so many lists :hand:

[deebakes]

hell, even i had him on my list :shrug:

[Muddy]

He didn't care much for America.. I get it though.. it was a time that was not very kind to his people..

[FBD]

you can care for america and not support all the fuckery that takes place against its citizens. america is not the federal government.

[Hugh_Janus]

one less terrorist on the planet!

[Muddy]

:lol: damn!