***Joe Frazier, a sharecropper’s son from South Carolina***
Ah yes! Smokin’ Joe Frasier! The man who lost to Casius Clay/Muhammed Ali! Yet in that match he hit Ali so hard it permanently scrambled Ali’s brains and made him “punch drunk” for life.
The loudmouth/draft dodger/who hid in the black muslim religion to keep from being drafted.
Ali became an American institution by being the best heavyweight boxer anyone alive has ever seen...just like Tiger is the best golfer anyone alive has seen...the personal flaws might make them aholes, but they didn’t become legends by some back door, shitty trick pulled on the public...they didn’t get there because they were “historic choices” or the manifestation of liberal and white guilt...like that lying, creepy SOB in the White House...the biggest difference, of course, is that you are not affected by the sports and celebrity goofballs, but Zero will throw us into a civil war...
Wow. I never knew that Ali had supported Reagan and Bush and was Republican! And Malcom X calling himself a zombie, like all muslims...I never knew. Interesting article. I may have to buy the book.
Ali’s treatment of Frazier was appalling. Frazier had a much harder life than Ali (Clay), yet his “blackness” was questioned by the big-mouthed Muslim.
Their first match was about more than boxing. The left, hippies, commies, etc were for Ali, while those who actually loved America were for Frazier.
I do sense that Ali has partially softened in some ways, but I don’t know the man, so I can’t say for sure.
CHeck out Ali’s relationship with Tony Rezko....Yes THAT Tony Rezko!
From: http://www.vdare.com/sailer/080901_chicago.htm
I’m still amazed that I only found out about Rezko’s decades-long relationship with the Black Muslims last week. It showed up in the obituaries of Jabir Herbert Muhammad, the son of Nation of Islam founder Elijah Muhammad of evil memory, whose followers assassinated his rival Malcolm X in 1966.
Jabir’s funeral was quite a success. Both current Nation of Islam boss Louis Farrakhan and The Champ, Muhammad Ali, were in attendance.
Malcolm had converted the young Cassius Clay to Elijah’s race-baiting Islamic heresy in the early 1960s. In 1964, however, Elijah excommunicated the dangerously charismatic Malcolm and installed his own son, Jabir, as Ali’s business manager. The energetic Rezko, who had arrived in Chicago from Syria in 1974, went to work for Jabir in the 1983 and was soon managing the ex-champ’s business affairs.
Rezko, sadly, was unable to make the memorial service because he’s been busy at Chicago’s Metropolitan Correctional Center since his conviction on 16 counts in June
Mike Tyson (crap be upon him), in his prime, would KO Cassius Clay (pork be upon him), in his prime, in less than 4 rounds.
Several people have described the scene at Ali’s training facility before the first Frazier fight.
One day he called Frazier a “gorilla” and chanted it over and over: “Gorilla, gorilla, gorilla.” and eventually all the (all-white) writers began to chant with him: “GORILLA, GORILLA, GORILLA.”
Charming. Imagine any white person in America doing this without the special “dispensation” that Ali gave them.
Aside from being a traitor to his wife whom he cheated on, his parents who named him, his country by being a draft dodger, and his religion; why not attempt to construct a hero out of him. He was good boxer but WAY over hyped.
I remember watching the Ali - Ken Norton fight on Wide World of Sports in, I think, 1973.
Norton broke Ali’s jaw in the second round, but no one but Ali knew it at the time (except maybe Norton). Norton kept working on that jaw for the rest of the fight and won a close decision. I think it went 15 rounds.
After I learned that his jaw was broken, yet he continued to fight and give Norton all he wanted for 13 rounds, I decided that was the toughest thing I’ve ever seen a man do. Period.
IIRC Clay spent a week in the hospital after the “Thriller in Manila”.
‘Ali’ is a disgraced muslim who should have stuck with ‘Cassius Clay.’