R.I.P. Muhammad Ali

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  • 23scidoo
    23scidoo Thessaloniki,Greece Posts: 20,073
    RIP GIANT..
    Athens 2006. Dusseldorf 2007. Berlin 2009. Venice 2010. Amsterdam 1 2012. Amsterdam 1+2 2014. Buenos Aires 2015.
    Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
    EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.

    I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,675
    Heavy news. R.I.P. Champ.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    ALI......not only the greatest in the ring but also great in the political and humanitarian ring as well.
    Amazing how he went from being a VERY polarizing figure to more of an elder statesman. Time changes perspectives.
    Here he speaks and says one day we will have a black president.....

    http://youtu.be/cywfuWVISUY

    RIPeace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • PJfanwillneverleave1
    PJfanwillneverleave1 Posts: 12,885
    Like Muhammad, hits the truth
  • manitouman
    manitouman In My Head Posts: 1,088
    RIP Champ.....
    Soldier Field, Chicago, IL 7-11-1995; United Center, Chicago, IL 6-29-1998; MGM Grand, Las Vegas, NV 10-22-2000 ~PJ10~; Pepsi Center, Denver, CO 4-1-2003; Cricket Pavilion, Phoenix, AZ 6-7-2003; United Center, Chicago, IL 6-18-2003; Alpine Valley, East Troy, WI 6-21-2003; Fox Theatre, St. Louis, MO 10-5-2004; The Gorge, George, WA 9-1-2005; United Center, Chicago, IL 5-16-2006; United Center, Chicago, IL 5-17-2006; Pepsi Center, Denver, CO 7-2-2006; Pepsi Center, Denver, CO 7-3-2006; United Center, Chicago, IL 8-23-2009; United Center, Chicago, IL 8-24-2009; Rogers Arena, Vancouver, BC 12-4-2013; Key Arena, Seattle, WA 12-6-2013; iWireless Arena, Moline, IL 10-17-2014 ~No Code Show~; Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul, MN 10-19-2014; Bradley Center, Milwaukee, WI 10-20-2014 ~Yield Show~; Pepsi Center, Denver, CO 10-22-2014 ~PJ24~: Wrigley Field 1 & 2, 2016; Safeco Field, Seattle Home Shows 1 & 2; Wrigley Field, Chicago Away Shows 1 & 2....
  • Degeneratefk
    Degeneratefk Posts: 3,123
    I'm surprised he lasted this long. But im glad he did. Rip champ.
    will myself to find a home, a home within myself
    we will find a way, we will find our place
  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,814
    Simply a giant of a human being & the greatest boxer ever !!!!! Fuck war
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,146
    InHiding80 said:

    pjradio said:

    InHiding80 said:

    I am dreading xenophobic idiots on the internet cheering just because of his "religion" even though he was more peaceful than those hatriots will ever be.

    RIP

    gotta say...you're the only one who has brought up religion so far.
    That doesn't change the fact that it will happen and it has. I've seen ignorant hatriots on Facebook already saying "rest in hell" just by the search function.

    Just saying.
    I doubt those people know that he changed religion to avoid the draft.
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    edited June 2016
    mcgruff10 said:

    InHiding80 said:

    pjradio said:

    InHiding80 said:

    I am dreading xenophobic idiots on the internet cheering just because of his "religion" even though he was more peaceful than those hatriots will ever be.

    RIP

    gotta say...you're the only one who has brought up religion so far.
    That doesn't change the fact that it will happen and it has. I've seen ignorant hatriots on Facebook already saying "rest in hell" just by the search function.

    Just saying.
    I doubt those people know that he changed religion to avoid the draft.
    WHAT! Where did you get such garbage.....please show me where something like that statement is a fact. I'll help ya, here's a few things about Ali many people did not know....

    http://heavy.com/sports/2016/06/muhammad-ali-vietnam-war-draft-changed-name-dead-religion-cassius-clay/

    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 am I going to shoot them? Poor little black people, little babies, and children, women. 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? No I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over. 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.

    Peace
    Post edited by g under p on
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,146
    God I hope you are being sarcastic.
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • SPEEDY MCCREADY
    SPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 26,946
    chadwick said:

    george foreman... these are real men. when you get hit by ali, norton or foreman, you know you been hit by a truck,. most of us would literally die probably

    Ali-Frazier I

    The left hook Frazier landed, to knock down Ali?

    Yeah that punch would have probably snapped mine and your head, right off our neck.
    An incredible punch.

    Ali, Foreman, Frazier, Norton, Shavers, Lyle, Young
    The 70's heavyweight division was pure insanity.






    Take me piece by piece.....
    Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
  • Hobbes
    Hobbes Pacific Northwest Posts: 6,438
    The Greatest...
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    Dodging 21 punches in 10 seconds....
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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Those made me smile, Hobbes, much like these:

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    And this gave me a couple of tears.

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  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    hedonist said:

    Those made me smile, Hobbes, much like these:

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    And this gave me a couple of tears.

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    I can see why on that last one.

    Peace

    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    mcgruff10 said:

    God I hope you are being sarcastic.

    Well, I did ask you the question.....show me where that it is a fact that Ali changed his religion to avoid the draft?

    Peace



    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Yup, g. And for what it's worth, I know your other post comes from a good place - as you, yourself, do.

    Listening to this -

    In the clearing stands a boxer,
    And a fighter by his trade
    And he carries the reminders
    Of every glove that laid him down
    And cut him till he cried out
    In his anger and his shame,
    "I am leaving, I am leaving."
    But the fighter still remains


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sstgcbGsew0
  • QuarterToTen
    QuarterToTen Cincinnati, Ohio Posts: 3,651
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    The 12 year old Cassius Clay, learning to box so he could punch out the thief who stole his Schwinn.
    Nice shirt.
  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
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    I love this photo...
    The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

    - Christopher McCandless
  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,380
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  • Degeneratefk
    Degeneratefk Posts: 3,123
    RKCNDY said:

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    I love this photo...

    Maybe one of the best sports pictures of all time.
    will myself to find a home, a home within myself
    we will find a way, we will find our place

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