Muhammad Ali has died
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Muhammad Ali has died
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#2After reading the NYT's obit for him, all I can think of is, wow, what a full life and long journey. Being born after his competitive career, all I mostly hear about is how he was "The Greatest", but not so much about his losses and his comebacks.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/04/sports/muhammad-ali-dies.h...
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#3Sad day. A video that probably won't be played very often, but might be special to this crowd: a 1997 Apple commercial staring The Greatest, during their Think Different campaign.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n83xzu2xH-E
The video was created to poke fun at Michael Dell, when Dell was being "rude", as Jobs put it.
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#4He was a really smart dude. The way he marketed himself was I think the first of his kind.
Plus he won some of his fights even before stepping in through the ring by getting into his opponents head. Just imagine Ali going to your yard a few days before the match in the middle of the night with a loud speaker
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#5After reading the NYT's obit for him, all I can think of is, wow, what a full life and long journey. Being born after his competitive career, all I mostly hear about is how he was "The Greatest", but not so much about his losses and his comebacks. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/04/sports/muhammad-ali-dies.h...
Here's one of my favorite sport highlight videos. https://youtu.be/072IsGDEpTc
His speed, footwork, and power is just incredible.
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#6After reading the NYT's obit for him, all I can think of is, wow, what a full life and long journey. Being born after his competitive career, all I mostly hear about is how he was "The Greatest", but not so much about his losses and his comebacks. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/04/sports/muhammad-ali-dies.h...
Here's one of my favorite sport highlight videos. https://youtu.be/072IsGDEpTc His speed, footwork, and power is just incredible.
Damn...whenever I watch boxing movies like Rocky, I always think the action and power look so fake compared to what you normally see when watching broadcast boxing fights. But I guess if you grew up watching videos of Ali, you'd have a higher expectation of razzle-dazzle.
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#7Sad day. A video that probably won't be played very often, but might be special to this crowd: a 1997 Apple commercial staring The Greatest, during their Think Different campaign. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n83xzu2xH-E The video was created to poke fun at Michael Dell, when Dell was being "rude", as Jobs put it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hq0Ny1WgFs
I think that video is from his training in Africa for the George Foreman fight. it might be in this movie:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_We_Were_Kings
It's a great documentary.
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#8Great photos of the Greatest by Neil Leifer:
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#9Muhammad Ali was so popular in the 1970's that they made a (not so good) Saturday morning cartoon about him, back when most people were only watching 3 network TV channels.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_the_Greatest:_The_Adven...
I remember watching a few of them:
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#10A sad day. He was an inspiration for American youth for 3 decades when he was active. RIP, the world has lost a champion