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Muhammad Ali RIP

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  • #32
    FrKurtFahrt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 899 ✭✭✭FrKurtFahrt


    To me he was undoubtedly The Greatest - and in more than one sense. I could not help comparing him to that other black icon, Tiger Woods. Woods went and played in Augusta at a time when a person of his colour could not become a member of that golf club. I have no doubt that, not only would Ali have refused to play, but would have rounded up all the other golfers and demanded that they also down clubs. Principled, fearless, beautiful and hypnotic. I adored the man, RIP.


  • #33
    2011
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 12,767 Mod ✭✭✭✭2011


    RIP
    The greatest, ever.

    This still makes me smile :)



  • #34
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,216 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see.

    RIP The Greatest.


  • #35
    FTA69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,252 ✭✭✭FTA69


    FrKurtFahrt wrote: »
    To me he was undoubtedly The Greatest - and in more than one sense. I could not help comparing him to that other black icon, Tiger Woods. Woods went and played in Augusta at a time when a person of his colour could not become a member of that golf club. I have no doubt that, not only would Ali have refused to play, but would have rounded up all the other golfers and demanded that they also down clubs. Principled, fearless, beautiful and hypnotic. I adored the man, RIP.

    In fairness, Augusta had black members before Woods played it, he wasn't breaking new ground there at all.


  • #36
    fatknacker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,342 ✭✭✭fatknacker


    Anyone remember Clay Fighter? That was a rad game.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClayFighter


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  • #37
    Winterlong
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭Winterlong


    He truly was a great human. To see a once great athlete trapped in his body like that was very sad. Free now.


  • #38
    Ardent
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,407 ✭✭✭Ardent


    Foreign Sports wrote: »
    Terribly sad. His greatest battle of all was against parkinsons.

    Ali at his peak debuting the 'ali shuffle';


    I had never seen that fight. Perfection! Thanks for sharing.


  • #39
    c_meth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 114 ✭✭c_meth


    Michael Parkinson said he wasn't a nice man and was very racist.


  • #40
    Tilikum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭Tilikum


    c_meth wrote: »
    Michael Parkinson said he wasn't a nice man and was very racist.

    Joe Fraizer would agree.


  • #41
    Michah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 100 ✭✭Michah


    c_meth wrote: »
    Michael Parkinson said he wasn't a nice man and was very racist.

    "He was a rock star". "A wonderful human being". - Michael Parkinson remembers Muhammad Ali.

    BBC Sport.


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  • #42
    OldMrBrennan83
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  • #43
    Tilikum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭Tilikum


    Patww79 wrote: »
    I never seen Facebook as mad with stuff, even when recent musicians died. Now I know absolutely nothing about Ali and don't like boxing, so can someone explain what it is? I defibitely don't think all the people posting social tributes are boxing fans either.

    Ali was the world heavyweight champion. He refused the draft for the Vietnam war resulting in the yanks taking his belts & boxing licence off him.

    Said he wouldnt fight a white man's war as he was treated like **** in his own country.

    Something like that


  • #44
    Grid.
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 69,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭Grid.


    Very sad news....what a legend!!! R.I.P


  • #45
    ads20101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,453 ✭✭✭ads20101


    Not many people in sport can say that they were so influential in their sport that they influenced all sport.

    A legend has gone


  • #46
    PropJoe10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,651 ✭✭✭PropJoe10


    The Greatest Of All Time. RIP Ali!


  • #47
    Superhorse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 848 ✭✭✭Superhorse


    Great sportsman but it's always perplexed me how he got away with some of the racist comments he made about white people.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVpfcq4pV5U#t=29

    Disgraceful.


  • #48
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    That's two gorilla's & a GOAT this week :(


  • #49
    Debil
    Closed Accounts Posts: 199 ✭✭Debil


    Parkinson summed his attitudes up as "a philosophy of despair". It's quite fitting when you watch back the interviews. A man who manages to be incredibly insulting to both black and white people.

    If you think some of the stuff he says is just the product of less "PC times" rather than the tripe it is, then you should go watch the interviews again. Lots available on youtube.


  • #50
    Tigerbaby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 598 ✭✭✭Tigerbaby


    "no Viet Cong ever called me Nigg**."

    God rest you, Ali. Being called the "Greatest" doesnt even come close.


  • #51
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    he died a long time ago, if the truth be known

    RIP


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  • #52
    dastardly00
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,784 ✭✭✭✭dastardly00


    In 1960, Cassius Clay won Olympic gold and turned pro.

    He managed to con Life magazine photographer Flip Schulke into taking his picture by convincing him that he does all his training underwater. Cassius and trainer Angelo Dundee staged an underwater 'training session', and Life published a five page article.

    Cassius didn't train underwater, in fact he didn't even know how to swim :D

    Hq1u2az.jpg


  • #53
    Titzon Toast
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,610 ✭✭✭Titzon Toast


    I've been fascinated by him since I was a kid, I'm genuinely heartbroken today.
    He wasn't just the greatest boxer, I would say say he had the greatest spirit too.
    There'll never be another like him.
    RIP Muhammad Ali.


  • #54
    sonofenoch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,925 ✭✭✭sonofenoch


    c_meth wrote: »
    Michael Parkinson said he wasn't a nice man and was very racist.

    He savaged him in one infamous interview, Parky tried to catch him out and got layed out flat with a verbal assault the like of which he never experienced before or after .......I've no doubt he probably was a bit of all that and a bully to boot but that was the game he was in


  • #55
    [Deleted User]
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    Tilikum wrote: »
    Ali was the world heavyweight champion. He refused the draft for the Vietnam war resulting in the yanks taking his belts & boxing licence off him.

    Said he wouldnt fight a white man's war as he was treated like **** in his own country.

    Something like that

    He went in to a restaurant with his gold Olympic medal draped around his neck and was refused service. So disillusioned was he that he flung it in the river.

    RIP to an icon


  • #56
    lee_baby_simms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,674 ✭✭✭lee_baby_simms


    c_meth wrote: »
    Michael Parkinson said he wasn't a nice man and was very racist.

    Beautiful eulogy.


  • #57
    MRnotlob606
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    Ali's great Grandfather was from Ennis!


  • #58
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,418 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    He went in to a restaurant with his gold Olympic medal draped around his neck and was refused service. So disillusioned was he that he flung it in the river.

    RIP to an icon

    Actually he later admitted that he lost the medal about a year after winning it.

    I'm not a particularly big boxing fan, but you don't have to be too know who Ali was and how influential he became, not just in his chosen sport. The man was truly a giant of the 20th century and in an era of overpaid, over-hyped and overly-pampered sports stars, he stands out even more as someone who used his fame for more than just his own personal gain. He was pretty much universally loved by everyone who met him. That doesn't happen by accident. One of the saddest sights I've ever seen was watching the once perfect embodiment of athleticism shuffle into the Olympic stadium in London as one of the flag bearers. But he wasn't going to let something as trivial as serious illness prevent him from making a final appearance the event that he made his name. He truly was The Greatest and there will never be another like him. RIP


  • #59
    dasdog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭dasdog


    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, Hospitalized a brick. I’m so mean, I make medicine sick.

    RIP Champ.

    https://subscriptions.boards.ie



  • #60
    OldMrBrennan83
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  • #61
    washman3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,646 ✭✭✭washman3


    MRnotlob606 wrote: »
    Ali's great Grandfather was from Ennis!

    Was he one of the Clay's from the Tulla road..??:D


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