RIP MUHAMMAD ALI

He was great at signifying. Never was a fan.

Norton kicked his ass two out of three times, maybe three out of three, no matter what the officials said, and Frazier beat him into Parkinson’s. And the Young decision was also a disgrace. He cheated to beat Foreman by loosening the ropes. And what he said to Frazier was a disgrace.

He was given victories over Norton in their third fight and Young that would have made his legacy modest (and maybe in the second Norton fight as well). His record of three titles was built on 2 maybe 3 judging results that stunk to high heaven. But hey, that’s boxing. Never bet on a sport where the result is determined by judges. They cheat.

I grew up in a multi-cultural lower middle class neighborhood. Muhammad Ali was in the news as a big hero – “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee” . Later he came down with Parkinson’s and everybody said how tragic it was that such a hero should get such a bad disease.

Dominic and his wife lived a few houses down from us. They were different, not because they were Eye-talian – pretty much every house in the neighborhood had a family with different ethnicity – but because they had two adopted kids. They couldn’t have kids for some reason and I thought that adopting kids was a cool thing for them to do.

All of us kids roamed the neighborhood wandering through the yards without much thought as to who the yards belonged to and certainly without any expectation that the cops would be called either for or against us. Nobody would have thought of doing that back then. One day when I was about 10 or 12 I stepped on a rose thorn in Dominic’s yard. He was home, so it must have been a weekend – otherwise he would have been at work. Dominic wasn’t a big man, but his hands were strong and sure as he pulled that thorn out of my foot.

Years later I learned that Dominic had died from Parkinson’s, but I always remember him as the quiet steady man who pulled a thorn out of a young girls foot without even thinking to question why she was in his yard in the first place. Dominic is a hero in my book, even though he never made the evening news.

Stucky- I share your excitement over the departure of that evil (and I do mean evil) bitch. They kept it secret that her equally as evil husband and she had divorced years ago over the fact that his male lover had sued him in court as he was a homo. ALSO they lived in different states and kept up the act of being the loving couple to keep the money rolling in.

The average sheep sending money to these spawns of the devil never knew they had 37 HOMES around the world and a vast personal fortune.

After Parkinson’s hit he became easier to like because he couldn’t run his mouth anymore. He once said that his Parkinson’s was Allah’s way of letting him know he wasn’t ‘the greatest’, Allah is the greatest. Even though there is no god named Allah, I respected him for saying it.

He had to down-grade his lifestyle considerably the last 3 decades because of an affinity for producing out-of-wedlock children. Even a great champ like him can’t win any rounds against a female in an American courtroom. No MSM coverage of his ‘secrets’ of course.

RIP, champ. Nobody even knows the name of the current heavyweight champ.

I wish more men of my generation had had the courage to jump the draft, and refuse to fight the war in Vietnam.

And if all the “hard hats” and other “conservative” middle and working class supporters of that war of aggression had known the REAL reason we were there, not a single man would have gone except, of course, the obedient, conforming sheeple-type men who need to be led. The only reason we were in that war was not for “America” , not to win “freedom” or “democracy” for the poor hut-dwellers we were killing while supporting the murderous Pol Pot regime. We were there to make another third world slave labor pisshole safe for American oligarchs looking for places to move the jobs then being done by the high-wage, union-protected “hard hats” who thought those high wages and gold-plated union-won benefits were God-given entitlements, never imagining that they were fighting for the “right” to compete with labor abroad paid a 10th as much.

Racist?