“paid the price of his convictions-a heavy price.”
Don’t make me laugh. He had no convictions. He was a draft dodger. Nothing could be more ridiculous than someone who makes his living beating people up claim to be a conscientious objector.
Add to that his becoming a Muslim. Who ever heard of a Muslim pacifist?
Cassius Clay was a POS.
The fights that Ali lost are only because he was
Too old
Too young
Too fat
Injured
Didn’t try to win
Was out of shape
Because bad people hated him
Of course, NONE of Ali’s opponents were ever:
Too old
Too young
Too fat
Injured
Didn’t try to win
Out of shape
Had bad people who hated them
“Don’t make me laugh. He had no convictions. He was a draft dodger. “
He didn’t “dodge the draft.”
He refused to serve in a war he thought was wrong and willingly paid the legal price. To the end of his life he was not bitter about his sentence. A close friend asked him about it and Ali shrugged his shoulders and said, “I did what I had to do and the judge did what he had to do.”
Addled brained muzzy braggart who beat people up. Nothing to admire that I ever saw.
