Originally posted by Rapscallion
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The shocking thing with Ali is that his speech was showing significant signs of impairment long before he retired. There are interviews with (UK chat show host Michael) Parkinson where he's saying he's the same as he ever was, still the greatest, and he just sounds slow and tired, his voice so soft. Now that is one of the signs of Parkinsons (the disease, not the chat show), but Parkinsons is a disease of the nervous system and the brain, and it seems highly unlikely there was no connection with all those blows to the head.
By the time of the build-up to his fight with Trevor Berbick it was even more pronounced to the degree that those involved should have been charged with criminal negligence.
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