Joe Frazier's Funeral

I am happy that you attended to represent the rest of us on ESB who could not, Henry.

Thank you for sharing your experience.

 

Was he like?

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJhBg-pzzd0&feature=related[/ame]

Was Cory Spinks there?

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF9G6AS3JyA[/ame]

Or Floyd?

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjmpkZdP_Bo[/ame]

Maybe not the best time for joke, RIP Joe

 

Sounds like a once in a lifetime experience Henry. Although it was a sombre occasion, the atmosphere must have been electrifying. Sounds like Jesse Jackson was making a political statement against the white community for having a statue of Rocky in Philladelphia, instead of one of Joe Frazier.. What else is knew...

 

Yeah, well, at least that statue looks more like Frazier's skin tone. Maybe we could just replace the head. (And at least Joe did get in a prefight cameo during the intros for Creed-Balboa I, and it's not as if Stallone himself showed no respect for Smoke.)

When I saw how Ali looked, I didn't feel at all as though he was upstaging Joe. It was more like Muhammad showing the world, "Look what he did to me! Look what he left behind! Joe's work lives on.":ko:vonnecunt:!:ld

 

That goes for me too.

 

:good

 

There is some debate about the cause of Muhammad Ali's condition... Doctors who I have talked to said that Parkinson's syndrome is not caused by head trauma, and if taking repeated blows to the head is what caused Ali's condition, then by comparison, James "Quick" Tillis should be dead... Not sure what to believe and make no claims about it..

 

thanks for posting here about it henry. appreciate you taking the time to do that

 

Ive read somewhere its not to do with head trauma, its more do due with the back of the neck somewhere.

Ive wacthed so much stuff on Ali and read so many books, cant remember where i read what.

Also (I think its on the Facing Ali DVD) someone stated that Ali had Parkinsons from a young age, he would have still go it even if he didnt lace gloves.

 

That's what I am more inclined to believing as well.. There have been hundreds of fighters who took more vicious blows to the head than Muhammad Ali and while many of them DO have brain damage, they don't specifically have parkinsons... Just for the hell of it, I copied this off google... It appears that parkinson's has to do with the death of dopamine producing cells, but the cause is uncertain...

Parkinson's disease (also known as Parkinson disease, Parkinson's, idiopathic parkinsonism, primary parkinsonism, PD, or paralysis agitans) is a [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurodegeneration"]degenerative[/ame] disorder of the [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_nervous_system"]central nervous system[/ame]. It results from the death of [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopamine"]dopamine[/ame]-generating cells in the [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substantia_nigra"]substantia nigra[/ame], a region of the [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midbrain"]midbrain[/ame]; the cause of cell-death is unknown. Early in the course of the disease, the most obvious symptoms are [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_skill"]movement-related[/ame], including [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tremor"]shaking[/ame], [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spasticity"]rigidity[/ame], [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradykinesia"]slowness of movement[/ame] and difficulty with walking and [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gait"]gait[/ame]. Later, [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognition"]cognitive[/ame] and behavioural problems may arise, with [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dementia"]dementia[/ame] commonly occurring in the advanced stages of the disease. Other symptoms include sensory, sleep and emotional problems. PD is more common in the elderly with most cases occurring after the age of 50.

 

:huh

This is really your interpretation of this? Baffling and sad, Duodenum.

 

I'm going to assume someone hacked his account.

 

I don't think its worth getting upset about.. Duodenum rarely shows dissrespect for great fighters, and probably meant it in a joking way..