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"A giant among men, Ali displayed [more] greatness in talent, courage & conviction [than] most of us will EVER be able to truly comprehend. #RIPAli"
- former heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis
Peanut (right): "Dora, I'm so glad you suggested that I do my school report on Muhammad Ali. It's my final report of the year and I want it to be the best. I'm almost finished writing it."
Dora: "I've heard Mom talk about him so much, I knew you would find him really interesting."
Peanut: "There was no one like him before--or since. He was only 22 when he won the Heavyweight championship and said, "I must be the greatest!" He had no idea how true that would become. And to lose 3 years of the prime of his career to stand up as a conscientious objector during the war in Vietnam Nam--he really took a stand. To regain the World Championship against one of the biggest knock-out punchers ever, George Foreman, is practically a miracle.
"Still the biggest lesson I learned from researching his life is that you should stand up for what you believe in, even if you have to pay a price."
Dora: "When he lit the flame at the Olympics in Atlanta--that was thrilling! I also think he raised so much awareness about Parkinson's disease. And he became a real humanitarian; he was 'the people's champion.'"
Peanut: "I read a lot of those lists of the greatest athletes of the 20th century that were done by ESPN, Sports Illustrated and others. Not all of them ranked Muhammad Ali as #1, though many did.
"No matter what, to me, he truly was 'the greatest of all time'; next to him, everyone else is just an athlete."
**God bless Muhammad Ali. Rest in peace, rest in power.
Joe Frazier (left) battling Muhammad Ali during their heavyweight title fight at Madison Square Garden in New York City on March 8, 1971.
© John Shearer—Time Life Pictures/Getty Images
Muhammad Ali is generally considered to be the greatest heavyweight boxer in the history of the sport. Raised in Louisville, Kentucky, his birth name was Cassius Marcellus Clay but changed his name when he converted to Islam. His fights with Joe Frazier and George Forman are considered some of the greatest fights in the history of the sport. He died on June 3, 2016 from the complications of Parkinson's disease and is resting here in one of the more secluded spot in Cave Hill Cemetery.
Austin Powers Mini-Me actor Verne Troyer gives the peace sign with matchmaker Roseann Higgins at Celebrity Fight Night with Muhammad Ali for Parkinsons Research at Barrow Neurological Institute BNI at Arizona Biltmore Resort in Phoenix.
The title fight between Sonny Liston and Ali was scheduled On February 25, 1964 in Miami Florida. Ali was not widely expected to defeat Sonny Liston who was favorite to win (7–1 odds). When Liston failed to answer the bell for the seventh r...ound, stating he had a shoulder injury Ali became the youngest boxer ever to take the title from a reigning heavyweight champion, until Mike Tyson won the title from Trevor Berbick.
For more visit www.boxingmemories.com/
Here's to the crazy ones.
The misfits.
The rebels.
The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
They're not fond of rules.
And they have no respect for the status quo.
You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them,
disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can't do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
They invent. They imagine. They heal.
They explore. They create. They inspire.
They push the human race forward.
Maybe they have to be crazy.
How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art?
Or sit in silence and hear a song that's never been written?
Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?
We make tools for these kinds of people.
While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.
Because the people who are crazy enough
to think they can change the world,
are the ones who do.
Original caption: Kinshasa, Zaire: George Foreman grazes Muhammad Ali with a left in their title fight. October 29, 1974 Kinshasa, Zaire
Joseph "Billy" Frazier, known as Smokin' Joe (born January 12, 1944), is an Olympic (1964) and World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, active from the mid 1960s to the early 1980s.
Frazier was a popular champion, ranked among the best ever heavy weights; reprising himself in cameo roles in several Hollywood films, and professionally is perhaps most famous for his trilogy of Heavyweight Championship fights with Muhammad Ali.
Frazier had a bullying fighting style, depending on bobbing, weaving and power punching. He is perhaps most famous for his vicious left hooks. Compared to Ali's style, he was close enough to the ideal bruiser that some in the press and media characterized the bouts as the answer to the classic question: "What happens when a boxer meets with a brawler."
According to Joe in the HBO special documenting "The Thrilla in Manila" fight, he was partially blind in his left eye due to a training accident in 1965. This would indicate that throughout his entire professional career, he fought with only partial sight on his left side.
“Fighter’s Heaven”, Muhammad Ali’s Training Camp in Deer Lake, Pennsylvania, was the training facility built by Muhammad Ali, where he trained for some of his biggest fights. It is now open to the public, free of charge, to tour.
A hike to Narsok with M.Ali and Taha, the best guides you could ask for! Also, hiking in a full-length shalwar kameez, not as difficult as you'd imagine, though a little bit tricky when it comes to the rock-climbing.
1960s Olympic light-heavyweight medal winners Cassius Clay, centre right, Zbigniew Pietrzykowski, far right, Giulio Saraudi of Italy and Anthony Madigan of Australia, who both took bronze.
The Rumble in the Jungle was a historic boxing event between the then Heavyweight champion George Foreman and former world champion and challenger Muhammad Ali. Ali won by knocking out Foreman in the eighth round. that took place on October 30, 1974, in the Mai 20 Stadium in Kinshasa, Zaire.
For more go to www.boxingmemories.com/
6/26/76 Muhammad Ali vs. Antonio Inoki
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Madame Tussauds is a wax museum in London. It was founded by wax sculptor Marie Tussaud. It used to be spelled as "Madame Tussaud's"; the apostrophe is no longer used. Madame Tussauds is a major tourist attraction in London, displaying the waxworks of famous and historic people and also popular film and television characters.
Years ago "The Greatest" came to India, and I was lucky to meet him and have my picture taken with him
My travels took me to Louisville, Kentucky this week. Louisville is an unassuming city. Like most American cities it seems to strive for the gaudy and the fantastic, yet at the same time seems to want to maintain its simplicity, while trying to understand its past.
The mighty Ohio river borders the city to the North, and my hotel was smashed up against its banks. Despite an unfortunate decision made decades ago to place a major highway along the banks of the Ohio, the simple quietness of that river overwhelms any human presence.
I watched a coal barge saunter down river with nary a sound from my 16th floor hotel room. The passing traffic was no match for its silence as it carried tree branches the size of small houses across its muddy depths.
My room looked out on Louisville, toward the river and, most prominently, the Muhammad Ali center, with its pixilated boxers who noisily float like butterflies and sting like bees.
Ali was the boxer of my childhood: a noisy man trying to shout down the cacophony of oppression in the heart of an oppressive era.
The silence of the great river overcomes even Ali. The river rolls on, but the hope remains. Dead trees are carried downstream to the sea, eventually, where they will be interred.
While thinking of the now silenced Ali and the river of his homeland and my country, I wrote this on the hotel stationery:
Muhammad Ali
A solid, quiet man now
Silent Ohio
The title fight between Sonny Liston and Ali was scheduled On February 25, 1964 in Miami Florida. Ali was not widely expected to defeat Sonny Liston who was favorite to win (7–1 odds). When Liston failed to answer the bell for the seventh r...ound, stating he had a shoulder injury Ali became the youngest boxer ever to take the title from a reigning heavyweight champion, until Mike Tyson won the title from Trevor Berbick.
For more visit www.boxingmemories.com/
The Rumble in the Jungle was a historic boxing event between the then Heavyweight champion George Foreman and former world champion and challenger Muhammad Ali. Ali won by knocking out Foreman in the eighth round. that took place on October 30, 1974, in the Mai 20 Stadium in Kinshasa, Zaire.
For more go to www.boxingmemories.com/
Original caption: Floyd Patterson catches an eyeful of fist thrown by Muhammad Ali during their bout at Madison Square Garden September 20th. Ali won the fight when Patterson was unable to continue after seven rounds because of a lacerated eye. September 20, 1972 New York, New York, USA
Patron: Muhammad Ali (Muhammad Ali Pasha al-Mas'ud ibn Agha) 1769-1849, Wāli of Egypt, Sudan, Sham, Hejaz, Morea, Thasos, Crete (r.1805-1848).
Qāytbāy (Abu al-Nasr Sayf al-Din al-Ashraf Qāytbāy (the restored)) c.1416/1418-1496, Burji (Circassian) Mamluk Sultan of Egypt (r.1468–1496).
Islamic Monument #505