Not being a boxing fan, never have been. I was saddened by the news that Muhammad Ali had passed away, aged 74. Not a greatly educated man, known as the ‘Louisville Lip’ Ali certainly entertained. Once describing boxing as “Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.”

There was more to Ali that just a boxer with a sharp tongue, many of his quotes are memorable for their insight, and the message that resonated with millions, both black and white. I recall the time Ali refused the draft, with his opposition to the Vietnam War, something that personally and professionally cost him dearly. The man could have simply gone along, and given his sporting prowess, would have had an easy time in the army, never seeing active duty, but he chose the harder road of protest.

A Muhammad Ali quote that sums him up; “What I suffered physically was worth what I’ve accomplished in life. A man who is not courageous enough to take risks will never accomplish anything in life.”

RIP Muhammad Ali

A NSW 'Watermelon' Green standing on the body of a dead man to score political points. Everything is political, eh?

As for white men watching blacks fight, there were plenty of blacks in Kinshasa watching his fight with George Foreman in 1974.

He was a great boxer, but no sane person would volunteer to endure his confused, tormented soul.

That 'African-American' split mind that is fashionable with the 'Progressive' international socialists and his Islam could be put down to uneducated stupidity and too many heavy hits in the ring. More about needy attention-seeking one would imagine.

Islam was introduced to the African continent in the 7th Century. Since then what did Islam contribute to the lives of its adherents and the even more unfortunate who didn't convert to it?

Amazing though how many easily influenced there are who are tearful and maudlin at the death of someone they didn't know and most likely would previously have sledged for the sport that won him fame.

Beach, you could see inside his soul, gee you must have known him well! Others can judge, you attack the bloke as "tormented", suffering from "uneducated stupidity". No doubt if you had been around then you would have watched him fight one day, then applaud the actions of the boxing authorities for stripping him the way they did the next day, being as gung-ho about war as you are.

It doesn't escape the public's attention that coincidentally it is the 100th Anniversary of the RSL and along come the scurrilous, Trotskyist NSW 'Watermelon' Greens to make political use out of a boxer's dead body.

It is not so long ago that the Greens and 'gun control' (a few discredited activists with a phone and fax) were trying to score political headlines off the bodies and survivors of Port Arthur.

Cringeworthy.

More bad form from the shameless, headline-hunting Greens.

someone who once claimed to be greater than Jesus Christ. Hmm

Beach, if you were around at the time of the Vietnam War and conscription, I would think you would have been a gung-ho supporter. Going as far as enrolling in a Uni course to beat the draft, then to show your patriotism and support for the war, joining the University Regiment and getting into the action by parading around the quadrangle on Wednesday afternoons, but well out of harms way, many did exactly that.