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RIP Muhammad Ali
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The boxing legend was hospitalized in Phoenix Thursday with a respiratory issue that was originally said to be mild, but his condition worsened overnight. Moments ago, NBC confirmed the unfortunate news of his passing. He was 74.
2016, man...
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this one hurts
My Dad absolutely adores Ali. He's going to be so upset.
I can't deal with this year
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You know, I actually don't really know much about Ali
The greatest, float like a butterfly, all that stuff
I've never actually seen him fight, or know much about him other than he converted to Islam and was considered maybe the best boxer of all time
My dad's 69 this year, and the docs are saying he has the classic syndromes of Parkinson's. So.. this hits a bit close to home.
The way to think about Muhammed Ali is he was a Character Action Game hero that somehow existed in real-life.
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He won a gold medal in the Rome Olympics in 1960. He went into a diner when he returned home "feeling ten feet tall" and was told that they didn't serve "his kind." He threw his medal into a river that night.
He became involved with the Nation of Islam soon afterwards, eventually dropping his "slave name" of Cassius Clay to become Muhammad Ali. He campaigned for civil rights.
He turned professional boxer pretty much immediately after the Olympics and rose to fame in the run up to his fight with Liston, then an unbeaten professional. People tuned in to watch the kid who'd been bragging that he was going to destroy Liston get the snot beat out of him, only to watch him destroy Liston exactly as promised.
In 1967 he refused the draft to fight in Vietnam. It was a huge deal and was widely criticised at the time as anti-patriotic and un-American. He didn't fight again until his conviction for refusing the draft was overturned four years later.
He retired from boxing in 1981. He was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease a few years later. He lit the torch at the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996 - I can still remember the commentator getting choked up when he was revealed. He spoke on TV in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks about his faith and how no right thinking Muslim would ever agree with what had been done. He helped carry the Olympic flag at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Games in London.
That's all I can think of right now. Like I said, Dad's kind of obsessed with this guy.
How I feel about thinking he had already passed away, or noticing very quickly that I was not the only one in that boat
2016 sucks
You missed the part between beating Liston and refusing the draft where he defended his world championship title like 6 times. He proceeded to be stripped of his title for refusing to enter the draft, was denied his passport and would not be licensed to box by any professional organization in the USA for 5 years, during which he was also convicted for draft evasion and sentenced to jail (though he didn't do 5 years in jail).
He gave up all of his professional success at the height of his career to oppose the draft and to protest for civil rights in an era which had legalized racism. I am surprised he was not in fact murdered for his very public stance and appearances.
By any definition and by any standard, his feats are heroic.
I missed thousands of things but yeah, that one's a biggie.
let me just listen to this and be sad.
i knew he wasn't doing too hot these past few years, but man
but he was one of the most dominant sports figures of all time while being unquestionably the most charismatic sports figure of all time as well as the most influential sports figure of all time
he was quite literally the greatest
Damn, sorry to hear that.
it was one of the most formative myths of my childhood, and really helped instill in me a love of sport and its possibility
i honestly can't think of a figure who seems BIGGER to me than muhammad ali
it's like hearing zeus died
Yeah, somehow it seems... unbelievable
He was a living legend in the most literal sense
They can't die
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Holy shit
That taunt at the end oh man
This is a great tribute.
Ali ended his second fight with Liston (undefeated before Ali beat him the first time) with a punch that took 4/100ths of a second to reach its target
It was so fast most people didn't even see him land it
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Like I said, real-life Character Action Game hero. All of the charisma, too!
(seriously, though, the guy seemed pretty frikkin' rad IRL)
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Another sad, sad loss in 2016.
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