Muhammed Ali RIP

[The perfect fumble]

"If you even dream of beating me, you better wake up and apologise."

"I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark."

"Will they ever have another fighter who writes poems, predicts rounds, beats everybody, makes people laugh, makes people cry and is as tall and extra pretty as me?"

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

Marciano might have an argument with you over that and his record remains unequaled. RIP Ali.

Marciano was a midget in modern heavyweight terms and Tyson himself has said that Ali would have beaten him (Tyson) every time

 

[its a Barm]

The word legend used far to much.
Ali was a true legend, the guy was the biggest sports star around the world for decades. RIP big man.

 

[cityboy5]

Rest in peace and rise in glory.

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[NipHolmes]

Perhaps a controversial comment, but I think Mike Tyson was the greatest boxer ever. Scumbag of a human being, but no heavyweight has ever dominated boxing in such a devastating fashion as Tyson imho.

Absolutely not a prayer.

Tyson wasnt really an elite boxer, just a puncher. He struggled v boxers if truth be known. Ali fought in the best era that ever was or has been in the heavyweight division.
Fraizer, Foreman, Holmes, Liston, Cooper, Norton, Paterson and Moore etc. Crazy roster of talent.

The shame for Tyson is Cus D'Amoto died early on in his career, its all what ifs from there. Just like speculating on what could have been with Ali had he not been stripped of his titles and banned.

 

[flyer]

Simply the Greatest

RIP Ali

 

[The perfect fumble]

Ali was an icon of the 20th Century...

 

[blueinsa]

Not a boxing fan but the man was so much more than just a great boxer.

One of the greatest and most iconic sportsmen in history.

RIP Champ.

 

[Mr Partridge]

I think you need to get back in your pear tree and zip that beak up.
Why come on the thread and come out with such a shite post.
Ali was and is loved and respected by the world over. Regardless of him punching people's lights out he was the champ and one of the greatest boxers and entertainers in the ring.
Had a good innings and is now at peace.
Very sad.

Listen I was gutted when Bowie died as I was a big fan, but I wouldn't have had a problem if people had gone on his thread and said they didn't like his music, as long as they respected his passing(which I have in this case) I respect other people's opinion and I think more of them for being honest, I certainly wouldn't expect people to pretend they were massive Bowie fans when they weren't just because the guy died, that makes you a hypocrite. Its the same in this case, I'm saddened because he was a human being and probably a very good man, and I can accept he was brilliant at what he did, but I have always had these views about that particular sport and I'm not gonna change them now. And I believe I am perfectly entitled to express them in this thread while still being respectful to the man, without people telling me I'm "wrong" or to "shut my beak"

 

[MP71]

Hugely inspirational when I was growing up. The most skillful, eloquent, photogenic, committed and determined fighter that imo my generation had the privilege to witness.