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fight.It is rare that people get Parkinson's Disease in the late
thirties or early forties when Ali was first diagnosed. So, once again, boxing
looks likely to be the primary culprit, despite what his daughter says.|
|1/18/05 06:34:11 AM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Noam, I do
believe that Ali's condition was hurried along by his boxing career and
especially his fights with Holmes and Berbick, when instead of enjoying his hard
earned retirement, he was in the ring battling it out in gruelling competition,
a fighter can take one too many or more fights.You are right that most
of the time Parkison's Disease doesn't strike people as early as the late
thirties or forties and that non boxers such as actor Michael J. Fox are
exceptions rather than the norm.I bring up that Jerry should not have
fought at least after the Norton fight for the same reason. We fans can be
selfish and I am no exception as I tuned into the Norton verses Young card
mainly to see Jerry fight Zanon. In hindsight, I should have been against Jerry
taking that fight and of course the three others he took after that!|
|1/18/05 07:49:38 AM|Sally Spectra|Spectra Fashions.LA, California (and where
else)||4||||10|Ali' should DEFINETELY have ritired after the Thrilla in Manilla.
Invece he fought such monsters as Ken Norton, Ernie Shavers, Jimmy Old and Larry
Holmes for a total of 56 rounds. That's just crazy ! Nuts ! Pazzo ! Loco ! And
even Leon Spinks was way far from being a bum. |
|1/18/05 02:21:25 PM|Noam|same||same||||10|KentYou describe it neatly in
using the term 'hurry it along'. It aptly sums the situation up in just a few
words.People are selfish with sports stars. We want to watch them at
their best and, when they are well past their prime, we still want to watch
them. The first part is because we like watching elite athletes; the
second is that we are intrigued by tragedies and train wrecks. Many people would
gladly pay to watch a fight even if they knew in advance that someone would be
seriously hurt or killed.Ali would have pulled a crowd with two arms
tied behind his back.|
|1/18/05 03:00:23 PM|Angelo|Washington, DC||funktron@yahoo.com||||10|Noam:
Correct, and I'll add that we love watching old guys make comebacks because it
gives us hope that if they succeed, we can turn back the clock too. When
Foreman regained the title, or even when he fought Holyfield so well, every 40+
person watching had pride and thought it was them in that ring. That's the
reason that even people who dislike Tyson might secretly hope that he regains
whatever has been missing, and clocks somebody and gets the title back. |
|1/18/05 04:21:14 PM|Massimo|Roma||4||||10|Kent, bravo for using hurried along !
What does it mean ? I know what "to hurry" means or "being in a hurry" ( avere
fretta) means and I know what along ( lungo) means but I don't understand
"hurried along". My guess is that that means " to take advantage quickly from a
situation", ( battere il ferro finche' e' caldo) in other words. Gerry come
back, I admit it, Wilt Chamberlain was the greatest, way better than Shaq, and
than Mihm also, but come back ! Cheers. |
|1/18/05 06:56:54 PM|Noam|same||same||||10|AngeloForeman is a rare
person. When he first came on the scene in the early 1970s, there wasn't much to
like about him. Sure he waved the flag when he won gold at the olympics, but he
was churlish and aloof with none of the glamour and pizzaz of a guy like
Ali.So, as with the majority of boxing fans, I didn't like him. He
shocked me with the way he so easily demolished Frazier and I was gearing up for
Ali's funeral when George fought him. I was hoping against hope that Ali would
win. And he did.I didn't start liking George until his second career.
For the first time I saw him smile and he showed a personality. The whole world
has affection for George now. I even have one of his grillers.Maybe if
you watch a celebrity for 20 years or more you soften views about them. When you
observe them for so long they become familiar and more easily
likeable.But there are some characters it's difficult to warm to and I'm
referring to Tyson. I saw a documentary on him recently and he has slipped in