What goin on with the icons... life, life is what goin on. Death is a part of life and every soul shall taste death. Thief time was coming and so are ours.
Not just a great sporting icon but someone who made an impact on the American psyche and was brave enough to speak out against segregation and the Vietnam war. He is also the standard bearer for the American Muslim and even spoke out against Trump's rhetoric
Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. was born on January 17, 1942, in Louisville, Kentucky
He was first directed toward boxing by Louisville police officer and boxing coach Joe E. Martin, who encountered the 12-year-old fuming over a thief taking his bicycle. He told the officer he was going to "whup" the thief. The officer told him he better learn how to box first
Soon after the Liston fight, February 25, 1964, Clay changed his name to Muhammad Ali upon converting to Islam and affiliating with the Nation of Islam
“I ain’t got no quarrel with those Viet Cong,” he said, after refusing to the join the war in Vietnam in 1967. “No Viet Cong ever called me n-----
Later he said: “I’ve done something new for this fight,” he once said. “I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick; I’m so mean I make medicine sick
On October 2, 1980, in Las Vegas, with Holmes easily dominating Ali, who was weakened from thyroid medication he had taken to lose weight.
Giachetti called the fight "awful... the worst sports event I ever had to cover".
Actor Sylvester Stallone at ringside said it was like watching an autopsy on a man who is still alive.
Ali's trainer Angelo Dundee finally stopped the fight in the eleventh round, the only fight Ali lost by knockout.
The Holmes fight is said to have contributed to Ali's Parkinson's syndrome.
Despite pleas to definitively retire, Ali fought one last time on December 11, 1981 in Nassau against Trevor Berbick, losing a ten-round decision.
A fight-by-fight breakdown of the boxing career of the legendary Muhammad Ali.
