Muhammed Ali

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a bit of context there vik -- well said, can not see many today having the bottle to stand on their principles, as against their 'careers'

Polloks you are an absoulete disgrace to the human race, actually felt sorry for rangers and their fans due to what happened with your club but i'm actually glad now, people like you deserve nothing less, makes me feel sick that you are a fellow human.

Some people really need a history lesson

An absolute legend is Ali. What he did for boxing can not be put into words. The greatest sports personality ever

He didn't really do anything for boxing

I admire him for refusing to fight for his country and agree he did a lot for Black Americans in his fight against prejudice.

On the other side he was rascist to his opponents
He lost 5 fights and these weren't when he was old and on the way down
He had some controversial decisions go in his favour.
Also turning up at your opponents house at 3 in the morning calling him out is hardly sportsmanship.

He was as classy in his respect for other opponents as David Haye is. Only difference is that Ali backed it up in the ring

"We who follow the teachings of Elijah Muhammad don't want to be forced to integrate. Integration is wrong. We don't want to live with the white man; that's all."

This statement sums him up

Ali will always be a boxing legend

However for me, Tyson was more entertaining and interesting

Rogue that was all in retaliation to how the black folk were treated in USA at that time. Blacks were not even 2nd class citizens during that time which lead to him throwing his gold medal away.

As for joining the nation of Islam he has admitted that he was wrong and did leave the nation after Malcom X was executed. As for his defeats some of them were at the end of his career when he was too old and he fought at the greatest era of heavyweight or any weight of boxing.

He's still 2nd behind Sugar Ray Robinson but u can't have a go at someone who was bought up and treated like dirt by the majority in his country.

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I am really surprised about the negatIve comments coming from people regarding MA. Yes he had flaws, yes he did some questionable things but that era is very different to what we live in now.

Yes he trashed talk, tbf what boxer doesn't. Him and JF had a very strange relationship, but deep down they respected each other.

Any country you go to whether China or Morocco, everyone will know MA and what he stood for. He put boxing on the map to a huge population, he inspired generations and that will never be achieved again. Tyson also did this but not on the same scale as Ali.

As you like to throw in quotes, I will take some of the more recent things he said,

"God gave me Parkinson's to remind me that I am not the Greatest, He is!"

“God gave me Parkinson’s to show me I’m just a man like everyone else. To show me I’ve got human frailties like everyone else because that’s all I am – a man. If I die I have no regrets. I’ve tried to live a good life and do the right thing. But I’m not scared to die. Because I’ve made my peace.”