Ali...What will it be like when we finally lose him

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  1. BlackCloud

    BlackCloud I detest the daily heavyweight threads Full Member

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    Please don't think i am being overly morose....merely realistic, but having lost so many of that golden era the last few years i find myself contemplating the great mans health and it astounds me how he has managed to outlive most of his compatriots from that period.

    We had the hospital visit a short while back with pneumonia and to be honest i feared the worst then, but once again he keeps plugging on and will be 73 on 17th of this month.

    It always effects me when any of the greats die and i am not ashamed to admit shedding a tear or two when we lost Joe Frazier, but, with all due respect to Joe, Ali is on a whole different level.

    What kind of send off do you give to the greatest sports personality the ever walk this planet, knowing he can never be replaced?

    Lady Diana's funeral was mindblowing for those of us in the U.K. but i can honestly see Ali somehow outstripping that.

    Hopefully my concerns will not be realised for a while yet, but deep down we must all think about this from time to time.

    Apologies if this post appears pessimistic as it is not intended that way.
     
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  2. mr. magoo

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    It will be treated as the passing of a true iconic figure for sure. The exact magnitude remains to be seen, but it won't be anything less than colossal. I just hope that its treated in a dignified way. Unlike the way they transported Michael Jackson's body around to multiple locations for weeks before finally burying him...
     
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  3. salsanchezfan

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    73 is hardly young. Especially with a man hindered as he is medically.

    Look, we're all going one way or another..........not to be too cold about it, but while there will be a little period of mourning and remembrance and a few videos made of him doing the shuffle with sad music in the background, life will go on. Not many of us knew him, anyway.
     
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  4. BlackCloud

    BlackCloud I detest the daily heavyweight threads Full Member

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    Agreed magoo and of course we have no idea on the families wishes but i can see something on the scale of Diana's.

    Part of me regrets making this thread as i am in fear of becoming a Judas!.
     
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  5. BlackCloud

    BlackCloud I detest the daily heavyweight threads Full Member

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    An honest reply Sal, thanks.
    You make a good and valid point about not many knowing him and to be honest i don't think i would find his last few public appearences as upsetting if i hadn't of met him when he was still the character we saw in the ring.
     
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  6. mr. magoo

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    Nah... In the back of every boxing fans minds we have been dreading that day for many years. Frankly I am surprised ( though grateful ) that he has made it this far. Its almost funny in an ironic way that throughout his life he has carried a shroud of invincibility and here he still stands outliving most of his peers. Parkinson's and old age have been his toughest foes by far yet he stairs them both in the eye with every bit as much courage as he did Liston, Foreman, Frazier and the US supreme court.. He is truly one of the most inspirational human beings of all time and our lives are a little bit richer because of him..
     
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  7. salsanchezfan

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    Fair enough.........for boxing fans it'll be a sad occasion when we do lose him; hell, the whole sports world, but everybody has their time.
     
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  8. kingfisher3

    kingfisher3 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    it'll be like all the people who don't like rap but parrot stupid **** like 'rip biggie and 2pac the 2 best ever'
    + what sal said
     
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  9. BlackCloud

    BlackCloud I detest the daily heavyweight threads Full Member

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    I understood the ' + what sal said ' but haven't got a clue what the first part meant?
     
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  10. kingfisher3

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    there were 2 rappers called biggie smalls and 2 pac, somehow they have become the accepted best ever amongst people who don't listen to any other rap.

    When Ali dies my facebook(old school/uni friends) will be filled with people who never heard of another fighter saying he was the greatest and it's terrible he died. Truthfully he wasn't and it won't be, it will just be an old man who had a great life doing what will happen to us all.
     
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  11. Dubblechin

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  12. BlackCloud

    BlackCloud I detest the daily heavyweight threads Full Member

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    I've never thought of it like that, but you make an excellent point.
     
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  13. FastHands(beeb)

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    What an excellent, thought-provoking post...great stuff!
     
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  14. BillB

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    Most of this forum will be claiming that Ali rose from the grave after three days and ascended into the heavens.
     
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  15. Ken Ashcroft

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    That will leave George Foreman as the oldest surviving heavyweight champion followed by Holmes, Weaver and Spinks. Sounds a bit morbid but which heavyweight champ lived to be the oldest?
     
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