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RIP Champ.
RIP Muhammad Ali
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I couldn't agree more. I'm relieved that he's finally at rest.
RIP Champ, you changed people's lives, opened people's minds, and helped shape the morality of a nation. Not only the GOAT HW champion, but a great man, despite the flaw of being human.
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Amazing the popularity he amassed through the lip out of the ring, and the skill inside.
An underrated puncher, an all time GOAT chin.
What I will always remember was after an absurd stripping of the title, in less than six months he takes on Quarrey, Bonavena, and Frazier.
The courage, the heart. A heavyweight with the agility of a middleweight.
If anyone personifies the term sports legend, it is Ali.
Love him or hate him, at the end of the day, there will never be a more significant fighter.
An underrated puncher, an all time GOAT chin.
What I will always remember was after an absurd stripping of the title, in less than six months he takes on Quarrey, Bonavena, and Frazier.
The courage, the heart. A heavyweight with the agility of a middleweight.
If anyone personifies the term sports legend, it is Ali.
Love him or hate him, at the end of the day, there will never be a more significant fighter.
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my idol, I don't know how much more mourning I can do, I lost a musical hero and am already pretty exhausted from that. Ali had a great life, a great career and a great attitude towards his struggles, in that way, I worry about the rest of us more than Ali.
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Like others have said, this is the only celebrity death to actually hit me.
For me it wasn't just the boxing (although he is head and shoulders above all in that). His story is whitewashed a little, but he was a figurehead and an inspiration for the for opposition to the Vietnam war, a voice that refused to be silenced when America wanted it's young men to conform and follow and an icon that would later transcend all boundaries.
I still remember the Gulf war and the story about Muhammad Ali going to Iraq and helping secure the release of the human shields. They called him Muhammad Ali Clay there. That's how huge his impact on the world was. Not just the boxer, but the iconic man who stood for so much on the world stage during some of the most turbulent times America had known.
His history is whitewashed like any celebrity. His treatment of Joe, his infidelity to his wife, being easily lead by the nation of Islam and the fact that he wasn't the first to say "no Viet Cong ever called me
". But HE was the man that carried the burden of shame until America woke up to what was going on, he was the man who put his life, career and future on the line for a principal and he was the man that carried the dreams and aspirations of an entire generation of young people of all races that believed in things being different. And he did this while being the undisputed greatest in the hardest of all sports.
I hate that our modern, quick fix culture will run a quick tribute on him, talk about the Rumble in the Jungle and wheel out his usual quotes. I'm hurting today because we lost a truly great man who was so much more than a boxer. A man who truly left not only his mark on the world, but played a part in making it a better place than he found it.
Damn...
For me it wasn't just the boxing (although he is head and shoulders above all in that). His story is whitewashed a little, but he was a figurehead and an inspiration for the for opposition to the Vietnam war, a voice that refused to be silenced when America wanted it's young men to conform and follow and an icon that would later transcend all boundaries.
I still remember the Gulf war and the story about Muhammad Ali going to Iraq and helping secure the release of the human shields. They called him Muhammad Ali Clay there. That's how huge his impact on the world was. Not just the boxer, but the iconic man who stood for so much on the world stage during some of the most turbulent times America had known.
His history is whitewashed like any celebrity. His treatment of Joe, his infidelity to his wife, being easily lead by the nation of Islam and the fact that he wasn't the first to say "no Viet Cong ever called me
". But HE was the man that carried the burden of shame until America woke up to what was going on, he was the man who put his life, career and future on the line for a principal and he was the man that carried the dreams and aspirations of an entire generation of young people of all races that believed in things being different. And he did this while being the undisputed greatest in the hardest of all sports.I hate that our modern, quick fix culture will run a quick tribute on him, talk about the Rumble in the Jungle and wheel out his usual quotes. I'm hurting today because we lost a truly great man who was so much more than a boxer. A man who truly left not only his mark on the world, but played a part in making it a better place than he found it.
Damn...
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Difference is that Ali is known in literally any country or culture and was as much a figure of politics and history as he was a sportsman
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I dont really get worked up over celebrity passings, but this one stings pretty bad. I have a lot of child hood memories tied to Ali.
This will stick with me forever:
Impossible is just a word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.
This will stick with me forever:
Impossible is just a word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.
It's very sad but the time was coming, Muhammad Ali is somebody myself and many others looked up to. For years he will be remembered by so many people, he is in a better place now. Rest In Peace to the Greatest Muhammad Ali.
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RIP Champ! Ali you are one of my inspiration!
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Pele? Maradona?
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A great and flawed man. His achievements don't match his reach in world culture. There will never be another like him. Rest in Peace to a true great man.
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Kubrat Pulev?
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His only better, really. The great Pulev. He might not be able to punch, but the Bulgars are vaguely Slavic to some.
