Posted on 06/03/2016 9:22:34 PM PDT by BAW
No link as yet. TV stations have broken to news that Muhammad Ali had died.
I wished Milton Friedman a Merry Christmas and he wished
me a Merry Christmas!
He fought Norton with a broken jaw
Pretty realistic feint for a fixed fight he lost
Yep
That’s how I remember it
They were making an example of him
Milton was the ultimate mensch.
Bull
It’s still bragging it’s just not lying boasts
That was his shtick
And it ushered in how most black athletes and stars are today.....showboats and arrogant
Which I detest
But unlike them Ali was self deprecating and played hurt unlike your average black NFL back today who hits the bench on a hangnail flopping
Ali was tough....which is why his brain got cooked
Randall Cobb too hellacious hits and never went down yet he never got Parkinson’s syndrome
Anifurmo never did either and he fought bad hurt too
Nation of Islam is a virulent murdering organization
It deserves criticism from wherever it comes from
You prefer Christians tepid?
And I liked Ali but he was poorly informed
Ali got two reprieves. Didn’t deserve either.
I’m fond of Ali
Despise Islam and especially Nation of Islam of which he was premier lapdog to Elijah Mohammed
And at times he was pretty tacky and other times funny
And laughed at himself
But you’ve got this weird notion that a Christian can’t criticize a freshly dead Muslim convert boxing greats religious life choice while you hope for some last second miracle for Ali’s soul because I guess you like him
But you really ally unleash the venom on a fellow Christian for criticizing Ali?
What denomination does that?
Let me be clear again
I grew to like Ali in time
His arrogant braggadocio set a poor precedent
But he was self deprecating
He was born a Christian and was stupid enough to leave his faith which I think is worth criticizing
Like you I hope he genuinely reacceoted Christ in time but he never voiced any second thoughts
Maybe he was afraid....he knew as well as any what NOI could do
Back in the ‘60s, being a muslim was perceived by many as a Pius non violent religion. People could not equate why a muslim would not go to war yet would fight for a living. To tell you the truth, I think it was more along the lines of his shtick, his persona.He had great talent, no doubt about that.
RIP
“It’s so ironic that a human being with reflexes like that that were arguably among the top .00001% of all human beings ever, wound up slowed so much by Parkinson’s. Sad”
Naaa, it was George Foreman that sent him drooling into his oatmeal. Even all the cheating in that fight couldn’t save him from getting his brains scrambled.
Christianity and Islam explicitly contradict and exclude each other, Islam violently so. The religion of statism is in pluralistic denial of the conflict asserting that all faiths are equal but thou shalt always also bow down to the state's chocolate bunny and keep your mouth shut.
The sodomistic state will lose first.
John 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Float like a butterfly and sting like a bee.
RIP.
I saw a documentary about photographers and the guy that took that iconic picture was one of the interviews. He said he just got lucky on that pic, it was one of many with Ali swinging his fist back and forth standing over the other guy. That one caught the perfect moment in time.
This is gonna shock and amaze ya,
But I’m gonna whip Joe Frazia
No. The Democrats and the GOPe have imported a raping, murdering, thieving alien population for the purpose of ending the United States.
I even remember the short lived cartoon.
RIP Ali.
Not a fan of his politics. He was a man of his time. Jim Crow laws are gone now. They weren’t then. He was influenced by Islamics and Marxists who convinced him that was how to get even. Some poor choices
But.... The best heavyweight boxer of all time. A smart fighter. Those 14-15 rounds of punishment for 3 fights against Frazer....how does anyone survive that. And the massive abuse he took fighting Forman....biding his time taking the abuse to his arms till he tired out old George...then coming in for the kill. The Zaire fight was incredible. Watched it the day after in a movie theatre.
You either loved or hated his schtick. He stole his bombastic rhetoric from Gorgeous George the wrestler. My dad hated it and him, even before the Vietnam thing. Called him Gaseous Clay. Dad loved Marciano. He has been the heavyweight champ and he was Italian. Marciano was a slugger, not’ boxer’, per se. Don’t know how that computer generated fight would have gone in real life if both men fought each other in their prime. I would have put money on Ali though.
He got his brain scrambled by way to many punches to his head. And he paid for it in his last 25 or so years. Should have quit sooner.
Anyway RIP Cassius/Ali. You gave me hours of entertainment.
After the Israeli victory in 1967, he briefly went by the name of `Morris Steinberg’.
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