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.
Cassius was easily the greatest boxer. Its a shame that sick un-American death cult called Islam tried to take him over (tho had it fully taken him over, he’s have become like Cat Stevens aka Useless Islam).
The sleeper nutter accounts are out in full force tonight.
Trying to get the MSM to call Free Republic a bunch of racist whackjobs again.
Hopefully the mods are keeping an eye out.
I prayed for him before died that he’d be with Jesus. Hope to see him in Heaven someday.
He was a great fighter and promoter. RIP.
“War is against the teachings of the Holy Qur’an. I’m not trying to dodge the draft. We are not supposed to take part in no wars unless declared by Allah or The Messenger. We don’t take part in Christian wars or wars of any unbelievers.”
He also said, on live TV, “No North Vietnamese ever called me a n***a.” The implication was that whites in the USA had called him that name and that is why he refused to be drafted.
I remember that stupid song. I never liked him much, even when he was winning. DrAft dodger. Still, RIP
No 72 virgins?
Someone who pointedly refused military induction is going to have flags flown at half staff?
I hope Jesus forgives him for rejecting the one true faith.
Never really had much use for him. His manager would tell the refs before the fight to go ahead and stop it if Ali was getting the best of him and the fighter was not fighting back. Back in the days of Marciano you had to knock someone flat to win the fight. Ali came along and almost every fight ended in a TKO. I also never liked the way he belittled fighters trying to get in their head. This didn’t work against Joe Frazier who whipped his ass in the first fight and put him in a hospital for a month after the third fight. Calling Frazier a gorilla was about as low as black man can go but that’s exactly what Ali called Frazier. He went for years without speaking to him because of the way he was treated. Foreman would have beaten him Africa if he hadn’t over-trained and suffered from heat exhaustion, which sapped his energy before the fight. Then Ali scared to fight during the fight so he layed on the ropes and let Foreman punch himself out. He knew how weak Foreman was for the fight. First time I can ever remember where the champion was not guaranteed a rematch, and he never fought Foreman again. Both Liston fights were rigged by the mob. So as you can see I was never fan of the loudmouth. Also didn’t like that he got by with sticking his middle finger to the draft board and not going in the Army. RIP Cassius. You and Joe can talk about your three fights. And all these American “muslims” from Ali, to Jabbar, not a war has spoken out about radical Islamic terrorists.
He really was cat-quick. That first video is amazing.
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Ali won some questionable decisions like the third Norton fight but the greatest outrage was his “victory by decision” over Jimmy Young. Young beat him decisively.
Young like many boxers got early dementia and died too soon.
The man who clearly beat Ali in his prime was Joe Frazier. Joe had too much smoke and fire in that first fight. By the time Larry Holmes beat Ali all over the ring it was some years after Cassius should have retired. His hangers on were making money from his matches and pressured him to keep going.
You have a bit of a twisted view of his fighting career. He defeated Foreman by knockout hard to criticize that. Frazier resigned before the last round in Manila, beaten to a pulp. That stuff about telling the referees to stop a fight, don’t know where you got that. They had to stop many of his fights.
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