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Ali “The Greatest” boxer of all times died in Phoenix
Muhammad Ali, the silver-tongued boxer and civil rights champion who famously proclaimed himself “The Greatest” and then spent a lifetime living up to the billing, is dead. Ali died Friday at a Phoenix-area hospital, where he had spent the past few days being treated for respiratory complications, a family spokesman confirmed. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesGreatest boxer there has been and such a shock to the crooks running the sport when he burst onto the scene.
Jun 04th, 2016 - 11:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0Tremendous personality. I am very sad to learn of his death..
Best of the best
Jun 04th, 2016 - 11:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0RIP.
It is sad...a great sports personality...
Jun 04th, 2016 - 12:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So light on his feet for a big guy...
Forever a legend...
Muhammad Ali was a great boxer and a remarkable human being, not afraid of taking strong political stances.
Jun 04th, 2016 - 07:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ali refused to go to the Vietnam war declaring he had no reason to go fight the Vietcong.
“And shoot them for what?,” he said at the time. “They never called me nigger, they never lynched me, they didn't put no dogs on me, they didn't rob me of my nationality, rape or kill my mother and father.... How can I shoot them poor people? Just take me to jail.”
He paid a heavy price for his stance, being unable to fight from 1967 to 1970 and is conviction was only overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1971.
His example gave the anti-war effort a significant boost, and Ali will be remembered for both his courage in the ring and also facing his country's establishment.
In the 1960s Ali was a rebel, a revolutionary. Unfortunately, since that time, his image has been whitewashed.
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