Comments Thread For: Sadness Tinges Week of Triumphant Ali Memories

[Bigg Rigg]

He was doing that to promote the fight and get under his skin. He later apologized and after the fight called Joe the best fighter ever (after him of course).

Nah, he was trying to make him feel inferior. The white ppl tried to make black ppl feel. Ali did but got a pass because he was also black. The problem is, he was light skin and made fun of Joe being dark skin and calling him a gorilla. That's lame as ****. and it doesn't get thrown under the rug as just fight promotion.

[fredhopple]

Ali has been reduced to a sad pitied shell of a man

Ali got what he deserved for his loud mouth his bragging and Ali's hatred of all those not ******s. Ali turned his back on America and disrespected his own country choosing instead to follow some fanatics radical ******s who bled Ali dry financially and moved on when Ali couldn't deliver their message of hatred and Koran Krap to America. The USA should have exiled Clay-Ali years ago. It's good to see Ali being punished by the Lord God he abandoned decades ago for those fanatic radicals in robes worshiping that alla babba dabba doo guy.

[Chaos]

Nah, he was trying to make him feel inferior. The white ppl tried to make black ppl feel. Ali did but got a pass because he was also black. The problem is, he was light skin and made fun of Joe being dark skin and calling him a gorilla. That's lame as ****. and it doesn't get thrown under the rug as just fight promotion.

If it wasn't promotion then why did it stop after the fight with Ali having nothing but praise for him until this day?

[Bigg Rigg]

If it wasn't promotion then why did it stop after the fight with Ali having nothing but praise for him until this day?

Joe never accepted it as just fight promotion

[Chaos]

Joe never accepted it as just fight promotion

Yes, it's well documented that he never accepted Ali's apology and was bitter about that, and the loss, until the day he died. That still doesn't mean it wasn't promotion on Ali's part.