LeazesMag 0 Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2012/01/17/muhammad-ali-s-70th-birthday-video-watch-number-one-fan-tony-parsons-explain-why-he-matters-so-much-115875-23703542/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 The Greatest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeazesMag 0 Posted January 17, 2012 Author Share Posted January 17, 2012 shame about the video, this is better http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2012/01/17/muhammad-ali-s-70th-birthday-magic-moments-from-the-louisville-lip-115875-23703770/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Might have to give When We Were Kings a watch tonight. Class documentary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeazesMag 0 Posted January 17, 2012 Author Share Posted January 17, 2012 Might have to give When We Were Kings a watch tonight. Class documentary. I noticed a few things on TV this week, will record them and maybe keep them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 shame about the video, this is better http://www.mirror.co...15875-23703770/ Aye Tony Parsons is a bit of a pain in the arse like. One of the funniest interviews (if you could call it that) with Ali is the short one after The Rumble in the Jungle, where he's chatting to David Frost normally then he realises it's going out live and switches to full on Ali mode, starting with "Everybody listen up! Attention!" Fucking great man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 One Xmas (on UK Gold possibly) they had a load of his appearances on Parkinson. Even when he was at his most surly and at the height of the influence of the Nation of Islam over him he was still good value. Also, ESPN have shown a few things lately, including repeating a few times when he visited Newcastle / South Shields. Bizarrely being interviewed by the public at the Rec in Eldon Square. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44995 Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Aye absolutely class. Didn't realise it was his birthday and when I turned the telly on this morning to a load of old footage on the news, I feared the worst. What a fucking bloke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 42484 Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Must have watched that fight at least 20 times. That 2nd photo man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 20234 Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 "A man has the right to change his name to vatever he vants to change it to. And if a man vants to be called Muhammad Ali, godammit this is a free country, you should respect his vishes, and call the man Muhammad Ali! " "His mamma call him Clay, imma call him Clay. " "Then you're a putz. All of you are putzes. They should change the sign outside from My-T-Sharp to 'ze Three Putzes" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 42484 Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Must have watched that fight at least 20 times. That 2nd photo man George is thinking "Whut the fug jus happened?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44995 Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 There's some really nice portraits of Ali up in Jesmond Dene House of all places. The one of him with the little kid, and lying back in the Rocking Chair are quality. http://www.jesmonddenehouse.co.uk/main/st1246.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 There's some really nice portraits of Ali up in Jesmond Dene House of all places. The one of him with the little kid, and lying back in the Rocking Chair are quality. http://www.jesmondde...main/st1246.htm I went to a Bill Peronneau exhibition at Northumbria University about 6 years ago (was the summer of 2005 iirc). He lives in the north east now, as it says. Basically the exhibition (which included that photo) was about 50% photos of Ali from his Deer Lake training camp and 50% the Northumberland countryside / coast. Both were class. There were some original prints of Ali for around £500. Wish I'd bought one now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 42484 Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Must admit Tyson in his prime i think could've give Ali in his Prime a run for his money, but Ali's a proper showman, fast in and out of the ring, some wit The Greatest Fight that never was. I reckon , on the strength of the Foreman fight, Ali would've won. Now, Frazier v Tyson, that would be a scrap I'd love to see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Must admit Tyson in his prime i think could've give Ali in his Prime a run for his money, but Ali's a proper showman, fast in and out of the ring, some wit The Greatest Fight that never was. I reckon , on the strength of the Foreman fight, Ali would've won. Now, Frazier v Tyson, that would be a scrap I'd love to see. Especially since Ali was past his best when he fought Foreman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44995 Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 There's some really nice portraits of Ali up in Jesmond Dene House of all places. The one of him with the little kid, and lying back in the Rocking Chair are quality. http://www.jesmondde...main/st1246.htm I went to a Bill Peronneau exhibition at Northumbria University about 6 years ago (was the summer of 2005 iirc). He lives in the north east now, as it says. Basically the exhibition (which included that photo) was about 50% photos of Ali from his Deer Lake training camp and 50% the Northumberland countryside / coast. Both were class. There were some original prints of Ali for around £500. Wish I'd bought one now. Aye, they're class. Was just having a scout about there, and saw that he's done a load of Northumberland pictures too. £500 seems a lot, but they really are class pictures though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 There's some really nice portraits of Ali up in Jesmond Dene House of all places. The one of him with the little kid, and lying back in the Rocking Chair are quality. http://www.jesmondde...main/st1246.htm I went to a Bill Peronneau exhibition at Northumbria University about 6 years ago (was the summer of 2005 iirc). He lives in the north east now, as it says. Basically the exhibition (which included that photo) was about 50% photos of Ali from his Deer Lake training camp and 50% the Northumberland countryside / coast. Both were class. There were some original prints of Ali for around £500. Wish I'd bought one now. Aye, they're class. Was just having a scout about there, and saw that he's done a load of Northumberland pictures too. £500 seems a lot, but they really are class pictures though. They're original prints like - i.e. from the negative, rather than reproductions, so it's not that expensive really. If you buy a good quality reproduction of a photo, i.e. on archive quality paper etc. it could set you back £100 no bother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 20234 Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Some great pics there Gem, cheers. Ant, that Tyson documentry is a good one. We dont seem to have characters like him or Ali any more. I am saying that as a none boxing fan. I.e I wont watch that many fights in a year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Watched that Tyson documentry a couple of times, worth a watch, when he was a kid in the olympics, jesus just a beast of a fighter. think i'll copy alex and watch when we were kings tonight, watched the other documentry where they interviewed frazier and such about him...some hatred that man had for Ali, but understandbly. Shame all the parasites got their claws into him once Cus D'Amato died. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 30679 Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 I watched the Thrilla in Manila the other week for the first time. The two of them were completely fucked by the end of it. Apparently Frazier's corner threw the towel in just a few seconds before Ali was going to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 I watched the Thrilla in Manila the other week for the first time. The two of them were completely fucked by the end of it. Apparently Frazier's corner threw the towel in just a few seconds before Ali was going to. Awesome fight but at a terrible price really. Crazy conditions for it as well - something like 100% humidity / 100F. As I recall, Ali's corner weren't going to throw the towel in but when Frazier's did (after the penultimate round) Ali got up to celebrate, only for his legs to give way. He was sat on his arse in the middle of the ring for about the next 5 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeazesMag 0 Posted January 17, 2012 Author Share Posted January 17, 2012 ITV4 tonight after the FA Cup replay is "Ali still the greatest" and BBC4 at 2200 and again at 0150 in the morning is "The Then and nowof Muhammed Ali". I've set the recorder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin S. Assilleekunt 1 Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Not a patch on Sugar Ray Robinson tbh. David Haye would have him as well as long as his toe was alright. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 He swing like a sissy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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