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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
“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.
“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.
Truly a warm kind thoughtful and beloved man by all....I photographed him many times and he laughed sometimes at all the silly photogs (like me) making such a big deal about him.
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.
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/
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.
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.
May 25, 1965
"Get up and fight, sucker!" yells Muhammad Ali as Sonny Liston goes down in the first round in Lewiston Maine. Known as the "phantom punch" partly because Ali himself wasn't sure if he connected, many speculated that Liston took a dive.
Years ago "The Greatest" came to India, and I was lucky to meet him and have my picture taken with him
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
Al-Rifa‘i (Ahmad ibn ʽAli al-Rifaʽi) 1119-1183, was an Iraqi Sunni Muslim preacher, ascetic, mystic, jurist, and theologian, known for being the eponymous founder of the Rifaʽi tariqa (Sufi order) of Islam. Although this mosque is named after him, the shrine contains the burials of his grandson, 'Ali Abu Shibbak al-Rifai and another Sufi mystic, 'Abd Allah al-Ansari.
The Mosque of al-Rifa'i replaced a zawiya (shrine) of the sufi saint, al-Rifa'i. It is also the royal mausoleum of Muhammad 'Ali's family, in addition to Hosh al-Basha (the Courtyard of the Pasha), in the Southern Cemetery.
Patron: commissioned by Hoshiyar Qadin (Hoşyar Kadın) ?-1885, consort to Ibrahim Pasha & Walida Pasha to their son, Isma'il Pasha.
Original architect: Hussein Pasha Fahmi (a distant cousin of Muhammad 'Ali), Minister of Awqaf, who died in 1880 when work stopped.
Construction Supervisor: Khalil Agha chief eunuch & director of estates for Isma'il Pasha.
Completed: work resumed in 1905 when the Khedive, Abbas II, ordered its completion. Work was supervised by architect Max Herz (Herz Miksa, Hungarian) 1856-1919, head of the Comité de Conservation des Monuments de l'Art Arabe.
Islamic Monument #U103
Rat’lar:
"We intend to prove ourselves your superior by showing our standard-bearer is the greatest!"
Muhammad Ali:
"Whoa... right there, dog-face! I am—the greatest. Man... they rank me with Joe Louis... Sugar Ray Robinson... Ezzard Charles... Archie Moore... Rocky Marciano... Gene Tunney... Jack Dempsey! I ain't agreein' to fight... but if I did, I'd whup your man... I'd stomp him—"
Superman:
"Hold it!! If anyone should mix with these extraterrestrial clowns, it should be me! You may be the best human scrapper, but I'm superhuman!"
Muhammad Ali:
"Right... but that's exactly why you shouldn't! They're talkin' about an Earth-man—an' you were born on Krypton."
Superman:
"Come on, I’m a naturalized Earthman! I've been granted citizenship in every nation in the U.N.!"
Muhammad Ali:
"Hey... why we arguin'? He's the bad guy!"
Rat’lar:
"We demand a staged fight... either Superman or you against our champion!"
Muhammad Ali:
"I'm willing!"
Superman:
"Wait a second! I'm the logical choice!"
Muhammad Ali:
"Tell you what... we'll decide this the reasonable way... with our fists!"
Superman:
"You want to box... ME?!"
Muhammad Ali:
"Box YOU?... No, man, I'm not gonna box you... I'm gonna whup you… But not too bad."
Superman:
"Face it... you won't whup me... period! You may be the greatest heavyweight who ever lived... but I'm Superman!... I change the course of mighty rivers... Bend steel in my bare hands... and that's just for openers."
Rat’lar:
"Ah, but suppose we nullify your super-powers? Suppose I arrange for you and Muhammad Ali to be equals?"
Superman:
"Have you figured out a way to make Ali and me even?"
Rat’lar:
"I had it 'figured' from the beginning, insolent Kryptonian! The event will occur on my home planet, Bodace!... which circles a red sun!"
Muhammad Ali:
"Uh-oh! You in trouble!"
For full story coverage on MBW: Life Is Beautiful and more, go to chumpchampion.com/2008/06/27/coverage-mbw-life-is-beautiful/.
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
El 8 de mayo de 1967 Muhammad Ali, pierde su título de Campeón del Mundo de Boxeo por negarse a ir a la guerra de Vietnam ya que la consideraba contraria a sus ideas religiosas y además, no estaba de acuerdo con la misma.
La frase que aparece en la foto, es más amplia y es la siguiente: ¿Por qué me piden ponerme un uniforme e ir a 10000 millas de casa y arrojar bombas y tirar balas a gente de piel oscura mientras los negros de Louisville son tratados como perros y se les niegan los derechos humanos más simples? No voy a ir a 10000 millas de aquí y dar la cara para ayudar a asesinar y quemar a otra pobre nación simplemente para continuar la dominación de los esclavistas blancos.
Leyendo cosas sobre él, me ha sorprendido descubrir que en el año 1964 grabó la canción "Stand by me", cuando aún era Cassius Clay, y aquí os la dejo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtIF0OqRnOE
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/