DaveTheRave Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 Dead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flannel Truscott Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 Gutted. RIP the greatest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leigh white Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 Floats like a butterfly, stung like a bee. R.I.P. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mixu Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 Rest in Peace [telly going off]. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankietheman Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 The greatest. Legend in his own lifetime and beyond. RIP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DazBob Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 Sad news. Â Everyone's favourite muzzie? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kent_white Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 RIP - a talented and inspirational man. Â Sadly we've moved on so little that I reckon he'd be slated by many on here if he was only just coming to prominence today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevieb Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 Sad news. Â Everyone's favourite muzzie? Our Amir, surely? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DazBob Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 Nah, Ali's dad didn't die his hair so he gets bonus points. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Biggish Dave Posted June 4, 2016 Site Supporter Share Posted June 4, 2016 Great boxer, great entertainer - a trash talker who backed it up. Rip Cassius Clay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gonzo Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 We've no chance in the euros now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salford Trotter Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 RIP big man at least now you dont have to struggle any more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SatanGreavsie Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 RIP big man at least now you dont have to struggle any more RIP indeed. Plus, the real scary thing is we never saw the best of him thanks to his 3 years out for the Vietnam thing. So we never saw him in his absolute prime; God alone knows what that would have been like. Plus Harry Carpenters radio commentary reaction to the Foreman win: "Oh my God...": [media]  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkZjyWvQmiY[/media] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whites man Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 RIP - a talented and inspirational man. Â Sadly we've moved on so little that I reckon he'd be slated by many on here if he was only just coming to prominence today. Can we not have this thread just paying tribute and not have you shoe horning your Guardian reading views in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naytch Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 R.I.P to Muhammed Ali, The Greatest. Looks like heaven's next main event is booked, he's coming for that World Heavyweight Title. Rest In Peace Champ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Carlos Posted June 4, 2016 Moderators Share Posted June 4, 2016 Cassius it's over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kent_white Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 Can we not have this thread just paying tribute and not have you shoe horning your Guardian reading views in? You're right. I'd like to apologise for any offence caused to any of the Ali family who might be reading this thread. And I don't read the Guardian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whites man Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 And I don't read the Guardian. Ok then comrade, the Mirror. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captainmed Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 We've no chance in the euros now. Yeah, fell apart when he was banned. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevieb Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 Just watched the SSN bit on him. Really good viewing. Â Probably won't see modern sportsmen sticking up for their own view points in such a way again. You'll also probably never see the big fights go on tour like his later big fights did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kent_white Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 Just watched the SSN bit on him. Really good viewing.  Probably won't see modern sportsmen sticking up for their own view points in such a way again. You'll also probably never see the big fights go on tour like his later big fights did. For a man who spent a lifetime coming up with quotable lines, one of his best was....  'If a man looks at the world when he is 50 the same way he looked at it when he was 20 and it hasn’t changed, then he has wasted 30 years of his life' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Biggish Dave Posted June 4, 2016 Site Supporter Share Posted June 4, 2016 Having watched a few bits of TV today and now BBC 1 on Ali, he's not half made an impression on the world. Â Is he the sportsperson that more people have heard of than anyone else? Surely, even people who don't care for sport have heard of Ali Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SalfordOriginal Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 We've no chance in the euros now. Rooney in the number 10 role now? Might work behind Kane/Vardy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Tonge moor green jacket Posted June 4, 2016 Site Supporter Share Posted June 4, 2016 Each to there own, no doubt a great boxer and a bit of character, but not exactly "a favourite". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deane koontz Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 RIP. Great human being. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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