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By Lyle Fitzsimmons - I’d love to just give her the 10 bucks back.
If it were at all possible, I’d drop a crisp Alexander Hamilton in an envelope, address it to Grand Island, N.Y., and return the proceeds I youthfully snatched from my sister, Roberta, back on Oct. 2, 1980.
Hell, I’d even pay whatever interest has compounded over 30 years and a couple days.
If quick financial reparation was the only real hurdle to guarantee a hero’s return to 100 percent status… consider it cleared, with my compliments.
In reality, though, it’s been a good deal costlier for all of us.
Though the myriad health challenges faced by Muhammad Ali over the last three decades are hardly a news flash, they’re always driven home a little harder when the calendar flips to early October.
And it just so happens this year – 2010 – makes it a milestone anniversary.
Thirty years ago this past Saturday night, the three-time heavyweight champion met a devastating career Waterloo in Las Vegas – taking a 10-round thrashing from an in-his-prime Larry Holmes in an ill-advised try for reign No. 4 as the division’s best fighter.
He went on to one more 10-round sleepwalk with a non-violent Trevor Berbick 14 months later, but it’s the feeling of most that the beating suffered at the fists of an unbeaten Holmes is hugely responsible for worsening the post-Manila struggles “The Greatest” has faced ever since. [Click Here To Read More]
If it were at all possible, I’d drop a crisp Alexander Hamilton in an envelope, address it to Grand Island, N.Y., and return the proceeds I youthfully snatched from my sister, Roberta, back on Oct. 2, 1980.
Hell, I’d even pay whatever interest has compounded over 30 years and a couple days.
If quick financial reparation was the only real hurdle to guarantee a hero’s return to 100 percent status… consider it cleared, with my compliments.
In reality, though, it’s been a good deal costlier for all of us.
Though the myriad health challenges faced by Muhammad Ali over the last three decades are hardly a news flash, they’re always driven home a little harder when the calendar flips to early October.
And it just so happens this year – 2010 – makes it a milestone anniversary.
Thirty years ago this past Saturday night, the three-time heavyweight champion met a devastating career Waterloo in Las Vegas – taking a 10-round thrashing from an in-his-prime Larry Holmes in an ill-advised try for reign No. 4 as the division’s best fighter.
He went on to one more 10-round sleepwalk with a non-violent Trevor Berbick 14 months later, but it’s the feeling of most that the beating suffered at the fists of an unbeaten Holmes is hugely responsible for worsening the post-Manila struggles “The Greatest” has faced ever since. [Click Here To Read More]
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