Posted on 06/04/2016 8:42:53 AM PDT by KeyLargo
Joe Bruno on Boxing – Muhammad Ali is Not a Hero.
Muhammad Ali passed away Friday night, June 3, 2016. I wrote the article below around the year 2000.
I got to know him fairly well in the 1980’s, when I was Vice President of the Boxing Writers Association. He was a real friendly man, and we had several nice conversations about what I have written below.
Still, his death doesn’t change what he was, and what he did early in his career.
It is with a sad heart that I stand by what is written below.
It’s just the truth, and a man’s death doesn’t change the truth.
Muhammad Ali Hero?—Not!!!!!!! There’s a new phenomenon taking place in boxing, and in the news media in general, which I’ll gracefully call revisionist history. I’m talking about the way the so-called media portrays one of the most controversial figures of all time – Muhammad Ali.
Former heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali may have been great fighter, but he was also a shameless draft dodger, who refused to fight for his country in the Vietnam War.
If you say the United States didn’t belong in Vietnam–I agree. If you say it was a stupid war, a war we couldn’t win — I also agree. I didn’t like the war any more than Ali did, but me and hundreds of thousands of other men like me, black, white, or whatever, went into the United States armed service because it was our duty to our country and to our families.
Ali’s refusal to be inducted wasn’t a black/white thing like he and his people tried to shove down our throats. Hundreds of thousand of white men chickened out and avoided service in Vietnam too.
Ali claimed to be a Muslim minister as his exemption
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Addled brained muzzy braggart who beat people up. Nothing to admire that I ever saw.
Not a man worthy of praise. “Woe unto those who call good evil and evil good....”
Muhammad Ali, Louis Farrakhan are not getting into Jannah because they changed their last name.
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Submitted by Maria (United States), Jan 4, 2014 at 03:13
According to Islam (Sunni) people who change their last name, which comes from their father, are not going to get into Jannah, Muslim Heaven.
According to Islam on the day of Judgement they won’t recognize them because they changed their last name..even if it was too an Islamic one.
So Muhammad Ali and Louis Farrakhan are going to hell...lol
http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/212466
"...the night Ali fought Joe Frazier for the first time in 1970... was broadcast live on Armed Forces Radio in the middle of the night for us in Vietnam...hundreds of us setting our alarms for 3 am, even though we were on 12-hour working shifts in the war zone for as long as 45 days in a row...Every race, color and creed was rooting for Smokin’ Joe Frazier, not the big-mouthed, race-baiting, draft dodger, and when Smokin’ Joe landed his famous left hook that dropped Ali in the fifteenth round, the huge ship rocked with cheers."For whatever flimsy reasons he and white-hating Muslim sect tried to concoct, Ali refused to be inducted into the armed forces, and to me and millions like me, that’s the bottom line. You disgrace the memory of tens of thousands heroic Americans, black, white or whatever, who died in Vietnam and in every war before and since Vietnam, when you glorify the draft dodger, scoundrel, reprobate and the four-marriage adulterer Muhammad Ali definitely was. "
Do we need this BS? Ali is highly respected in all aspects of his life, he stood by his convictions, was respectful, accountable, and deserves, in my opinion, respect. RIP.
I saw an interview with Joe Frazier on Ali. If Frazier had not let Ali have a title shot he may not have ever gotten another one. Frazier said Ali did everything to get him to give him that first fight. Then he said when he agreed to it Ali starts that insulting act of his and Frazier said he could not believe it. Frazier beat him that first fight to teach him a lesson but he lost the second.
In my book Joe Frazier was the better man in every way, Ali was a great fighter buy was sadly lacking in any maturity and class.
... then you'd be wrong.
We had it won by about 1970; the North was preparing to pursue a ceasefire.
Then, John Kerry, Jane Fonda and the rest of the rogue's gallery of traitors persuaded them to stick with it, while they pushed the anti-war scam in this country, until the 'rats in government gave up and abandoned the South Vietnamese.
Who ever heard of a moslem minister who did not want to kill people!
Maybe in your mind
William Gaines!
Now that’s funny.
***We had it won by about 1970; the North was preparing to pursue a ceasefire.***
It was Walter Cronkite on CBS News who stabbed America in the back.
Mr. Bruno is certainly entitled to his opinion but it’s unlikely he was ever refused service in a restaurant because of his color............
I am about the same age as Cassius Clay ,,,, I got drafted and vacationed 13 months in S.E. Asia while he dodged and weaved his way into stardom . He is no hero to me . Sorry .
Thanks for posting this article.
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