Muhammad Ali dead at 74

[britbox]

Not a tennis story, but this guy transcended all sports... a huge icon - maybe the biggest sporting icon of all time.

Rest in Peace.

 

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[DarthFed]

Incredibly sad. Ali was well before my time but everyone knew how great this man was as a fighter and as a person. As you said he transcended all of sports, not just boxing. RIP champ

 

[EdbergsGhost]

He was the forerunner of all the trash talk we have to put up with in sport. I wish he would have let his fists do all the talking.

 

[DarthFed]

^ I'd say they did a LOT of the talking. Boxing, UFC, football, even basketball would be weird without a lot of trash talking. Those are not meant to be a gentleman's sport like tennis.

 

[JesuslookslikeBorg]

a sad day but I feel he's better off out of it. he was a prisoner in his own body..for someone at the peak of human fitness in his prime that must have been a mental nightmare.

talking of prime, I was unfortunate enough to watch his holmes fight on tv on October 2nd 1980..a lesson in going on too long, and that was nott even his final fight.

 

[Moxie]

If you want a GOAT, it was Ali...he'd tell you so himself. Greatest boxer, but also activist, "poet," and wholly transformative giant of the 20th Century.

 

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