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.
CAMPAIGN NOTES; Muhammad Ali Switches His Support to Reagan
UPI
Published: October 3, 1984
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 2— Muhammad Ali, the former heavyweight boxing champion, who endorsed the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s unsuccessful run for the White House, has announced he is switching to President Reagan.
Mr. Ali announced his support Monday night at a gathering for black Republicans at the home of Jerry Zarg, who is challenging Representative Henry A. Waxman, a Democrat.
Asked to elaborate on his endorsement of Mr. Reagan, Mr. Ali told reporters, ‘’He’s keeping God in schools and that’s enough.’’
His politics aside, he was a great fighter, including the phantom punch on Sonny Liston. RIP Cassius Clay!
The prosecution was politically motivated.
Will always be remembered as a trash talking, draft-dodging idiot who converted to Islam to avoid the war. Real tough guy...
They didn’t prosecute others who were conscientious objectors.
The rejection of that status and prosecution was political.
I’m 65, and I was an avid boxing fan up until Tyson came along, and then I got disgusted with it. I remember Cassius Clay, and I remember when he became Muhammed Ali, and I remember I ALWAYS pulled for his opponent. And I remember watching him destroy them all. I remember my frustration that no one could touch him (literally) until 1971 when Joe Frazier defeated him in a truly great fight.
Clay/Ali was a great boxer. Patterson probably had quicker hands, but nowhere near the punch (plus, Patterson could not TAKE a punch). Clay/Ali did things in the ring that had never been done before. And he was without doubt the quickest on his feet.
I would like to have seen a fight between Joe Louis in his prime and Clay/Ali in HIS prime.
In my lifetime, Clay/Ali was the greatest boxer.
Great, now we will have a whole new pile of streets named after him that will turn into depressed property values...
We’ll miss the old demented Muslim. He was a true fountain of deep and helpful thought.
....and he didn’t eat pork.
I ran into him on Chestnut Street in Philadelphia one time when he was around 27. He was very good looking, and quickly mobbed by fans.
I am always sad when a Christian renounces his religion; that he did it so publicly did not help his country. I hope he repented, at least in his heart, before he died.
And you know this how?
FWIW, when both were undefeated champions, Frazier won the fight that really counted in 1971...
Sorry, both were champions (not undefeated).
No he isn’t.
Crap, their=there
He's in Hell...forever!
Good riddance of the muslim draft-dodger.
Cosell died in ‘95 at age 77. Had he lived, he would be 91 now.
He made things interesting.
I share the same understanding of scripture, that your relationship with Jesus at check out time is the game changer.
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