Posted on 06/04/2016 1:21:27 AM PDT by SkyPilot
Muhammad Ali, the silver-tongued boxer and civil rights champion who famously proclaimed himself "The Greatest" and then spent a lifetime living up to the billing, is dead.
Ali died Friday at a Phoenix-area hospital, where he had spent the past few days being treated for respiratory complications, a family spokesman confirmed to NBC News. He was 74.
After a 32-year battle with Parkinson's disease, Muhammad Ali has passed away at the age of 74. The three-time World Heavyweight Champion boxer died this evening," Bob Gunnell, a family spokesman, told NBC News.
Jimi was awesome..
I took a few tests - mine was 134 using the same standards I believe. I am an aerospace engineer and retired Air Force pilot - but what I really rely on it God. Without Him, I am nothing.
There are some rumors that his Star Spangled Banner solo was a big "FU" to some of the Lefties at Woodstock. They wanted to sing it off key and use profane lyrics. Jimi was anticommunist. Big time, anticommunist.
Thank you. I admit I was very surprised by the curve.
My sister and I are 126, my brother was 148, my son is 132. I’m old as the hills but back when tested we realized that my brother’s was higher than average but thought my sister and I were about average.
Perhaps the population’s IQ has been dropping in general in recent years.
That might be the dumbest statement that I have ever seen posted on Free Republic. I understand that you despise the man but your posts are making you look ridiculous. Don't let your emotions cloud your ability to see reality.
His name change is interesting. It was a family name which was taken from an abolitionist who had freed his own slaves. His father had the same name. Then Cassius changed it to the name of a man who was a slave owner and slave trader when he took the name Muhammed. That was the work of a fool.
Ali debased our culture and made it popular to be an arrogant Clymer. He made Islam more acceptable in certain quarters. He did a lot of damage to the black community with these acts. And he was a coward. He would fight for his own self-interest, but not for the freedom of others. Every single punch he threw and every victory he had in the ring was as nothing compared to the deeds of those who went and fought in his place.
It is a sign of a sick culture that he is so lionized. And he played a major role in making that culture sick.
“If you were ever around him it was obvious he had the mentality of a child.”
The ridiculous Will Smith movie about his life attempted to make him out to be a studious person who always had a chip on his shoulder. Nothing was further from the truth. His image was carefully crafted from the minute a group of white businessmen in Louisville bankrolled his start. In reality he was an easy going person, who had a child-like quality about him. He was forever joking and the taunting opponents was taken from professional wrestling. The Nation of Islam saw in him a perfect recruitment tool and he was coached in what to do and what to say for years by these thugs. The black man against the world was started by them. Ali came from a middle-class background and had two strong parents. He had plenty of white friends and a white man got him interested in fighting.
Sugar Ray Robinson has to be on an all-time list of the greatest PFP fighters. He'd be at the top of mine.
Ali was a great fighter and champion but on a PFP basis, there were better fighters.
The greatest blowhard of all time.
No. The ones who paid “a heavy price” have their names engraved on a black wall and those like me who have had pain every day for nearly 50 years.
Mohammed Ali betrayed all of us by failing to serve our country. His example could have inspired and supported our efforts in a difficult long-distance war but he chose to provide the opposite.
I have not forgiven and will not forgive people who benefitted from our country’s opportunities but welshed on our country’s responsibilities. My heroes are the young men who fought, not the turds who stayed home.
Yeah, this is the kind of stuff that I’ve heard about, too. Ted Nugent is a nut but Ali’s was as good as gold, whatever....
Like Lou Alcindor. Changing your religion means you have to change your name, too. I’ve never understood that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaUrm26VQh8
Duran's hardest lightweight fight:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ksuNR7pxcU
Hector Thompson may have had the heaviest hands of all times in the lighter weight divisions. His last two opponents prior to this fight had died in the ring. He did not have Duran's defensive skills.
There’s the strange tale of the kid who played Buckwhest in Our Gang who converted to I-slam as an adult and changed his name to Kareem of Wheat....
He was a draft dodging traitor. Cassius Clay was no hero. The men who answered the call to service to their country were. He was muslim scum.
Yes ma’am.
I read an interesting account by a guy who worked for the NSA as an Air Force enlisted man. He loved his job and the military. He volunteered to go to Vietnam as aircrew for reconnaissance flights. Within two years, he and the rest of his crew were so disillusioned by intel that they saw and how they saw the war being run that they made no attempt to do anything above and beyond their jobs anymore. On most of the flights, they’d just take turns going to the back of the plane to smoke marijuana. He just did his tour, came home, and got out of the military. He didn’t go work for a contractor like most of his co-workers did, he just went and did something totally else in life.
Your revisionist history posts, and your sure hatred for others, have been fun to read. I realize you are brand new to FR, but have you always gone to message boards to attack Muhammad Ali? Or did you just wait until the day he died?
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