Happy birthday Muhammad Ali - Il est soixante-neuf

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  1. Boucher

    Boucher Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Very tasteful.
     
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  2. slip&counter

    slip&counter Gimme some X's and O's Full Member

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    His daughter.

    Happy Bday champ!
     
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  3. alexvoce

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    alrite calm down its a sweepstake i thought that was a viable option.
     
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  4. prime

    prime BOX! Writing Champion Full Member

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    Sorry for your loss. Touching anecdote. Good tribute to the champ on his day! :good
     
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  5. Stevie G

    Stevie G Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I met him in the early 90's too. It was quite a moment.
     
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  6. Stevie G

    Stevie G Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    It was 69 years ago today......was born the greatest,Cassius Clay !!!
     
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  7. junior-soprano

    junior-soprano Active Member Full Member

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    who would have guessed that from you ??
     
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  8. Lobotomy

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    Ali's imminent demise has been predicted for decades. However, genetics ought to be factored into this equation. His hard drinking father died of a heart attack at age 77, as did his devoutly Baptist clean living mother Odessa four years later. Muhammad may simply be genetically hard wired to live to a certain age regardless.

    In any event, he's outlived a number of fellow former champs, like Louis (66), Max Baer (50), Carnera (60), Sullivan (59), Fitz (54), Hart (55), Charles (53) and Corbett (66). Braddock passed at 69. (Of course those who prematurely died of unnatural causes like Johnson, Marciano and Liston should not be considered here.)

    Considering the fact that Ali was taking punches from age 12 until bordering on age 40, he's had a respectable life span. (Bennie Briscoe just died at 67, and he was still in excellent physical condition when he retired.)

    From what I gather, he's enjoying a rather happy retirement even with his physical compromises. He's been extremely adamant about the fact that he not be an object of pity or sympathy. (This is how Frazier gets his revenge these days, by openly pitying Ali while wheelchair bound himself.) Ali's mind is fully intact, and he's long since reversed early animosity into institutional mainstream adoration.
     
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  9. RockysSplitNose

    RockysSplitNose Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    You in England? I'm guessing you are - but I'm guessing you might be in Liverpool?:lol: Where about's did you meet him? Was it when he was touring his Thomas Hauser biog?
     
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  10. Stevie G

    Stevie G Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Good post mate :good Yes,Ali's probably a lot more content,and happy with life than Joe Frazier is.
     
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  11. Stevie G

    Stevie G Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I'm based in London,Rocky. Nothing to do with THAT Stevie G :lol: Yes,it was on his Thomas Hauser book tour. October 1992. I'll never forget it.
     
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  12. Stevie G

    Stevie G Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Sorry for your loss mate
     
    Stevie G, Jan 17, 2011
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  13. alexvoce

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    well for started smokin joe is not wheelchair bound and he seemed happy enough at the lights out premiere
     
    alexvoce, Jan 17, 2011
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  14. manbearpig

    manbearpig A Scottish Noob Full Member

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  15. Lobotomy

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