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Muhammad Ali Has Passed Away

https://www.cnn.com/2016/06/03/us/muhammad-ali/index.html

(CNN)Muhammad Ali, the legendary boxer who proclaimed himself "The Greatest" and was among the most famous and beloved athletes on the planet, died Friday in Phoenix, Arizona, a family spokesman said.Ali, 74, had been at a Phoenix hospital since Thursday with what spokesman Bob Gunnell had described as a respiratory issue.
The three-time heavyweight champion also had battled Parkinson's disease since 1984.
Laila Ali "truly appreciates the outpouring of love for her family, as she spends quality time with her dad," a statement issued by her business manager said.
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RIP Ali.

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... but he has been struggling for a while. Hope he finds peace in the next life wherever that may be...
 
To I say I'm crushed and in tears doesn't even scrape the surface.

He meant everything to my family, myself. My father particularly. Probably the first athlete name I ever learned.

I always dreamed of meeting him. RIP. A hero of mine, forever
 
dalamon said:
To I say I'm crushed and in tears doesn't even scrape the surface.

He meant everything to my family, myself. My father particularly. Probably the first athlete name I ever learned.

I always dreamed of meeting him. RIP. A hero of mine, forever
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I met him maybe 20 times. What an awesome dude. Earlier he was soooo funny, but was always a class act.
 
Dr. Jones said:
I met him maybe 20 times. What an awesome dude. Earlier he was soooo funny, but was always a class act.
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Best athlete ever.

Jordan wasn't half the athlete, or a tenth of the man. Wish I could have met him.
 
Cunning Linguist said:
RIP. Great, great man. Not the athlete Jordan was though, sorry.
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You're right. Jordan never stood up for something like this:

"Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over. This is the day when such evils must come to an end. I have been warned that to take such a stand would cost me millions of dollars. But I have said it once and I will say it again. The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality. If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years."

- Muhammad Ali
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Incredible courage!
 
We know many of the great things this man did but let's not paint him to be a God. I know we're all fallible but he had 9-10 children with 5-6 different women including four wives and 1-2 baby mamas.
 
Cunning Linguist said:
We know many of the great things this man did but let's not paint him to be a God. I know we're all fallible but he had 9-10 children with 5-6 different women including four wives and 1-2 baby mamas.
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So? Gods get a lot of *****.

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Here's the untold "truth" about Ali...and this guy hits the nail on the head! Rather than spout the accolades of Ali as the "greatest" athlete of them all, Ali was the beginning and biggest influence in the downward spiral of sportsmanship that has continued to this very day!

"Ali was able to — allowed to — popularize and commercialize trash-talking, name-calling and chest-pounding — something we’ve never recovered from — as few in the media wish to be identified as uncool, to knock something not in society’s best interests, applauding acts of bad-is-good they’d never encourage in their own."

https://nypost.com/2016/06/05/debunking-the-myths-that-have-glorified-muhammad-ali/
 
This is the time for white people's subconsciousness to go all anti muslim so no problem trying to bring down a public hero especially now that he is dead.
 
addictionary said:
This is the time for white people's subconsciousness to go all anti muslim so no problem trying to bring down a public hero especially now that he is dead.
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..actually, and the truth be told, Ali began his one man disintegration (definition, to separate into parts or lose intactness or solidness; break up)of true sportsmanship BEFORE he became a Muslim, when he was known as "Cassius Clay!" But you probably were not even born yet when that occurred!
 
carolinajazz said:
..actually, and the truth be told, Ali began his one man disintegration (definition, to separate into parts or lose intactness or solidness; break up)of true sportsmanship BEFORE he became a Muslim, when he was known as "Cassius Clay!" But you probably were not even born yet when that occurred!
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"I am older hence I know better."

Sheesh..
 
Ignacio said:
Him beating undefeated Foreman was quite a feat... Still ain't the athlete Jordan was.
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Athlete of the Century? Who they trying to shuck? No athlete that performs only twice a year can be considered as the athlete of the Century! My choice would have been Nolan Ryan! 7 NO HITTERS, 2 of them after he turned 40! 5,000 strikeouts and 12 ONE HITTERS!
 
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