Life is a journey of complacency, achieved thanks to our experiences and relations, but the most seeking, showing courage and being fearless.
Muhammad Ali confronted the boundaries almost like no other man. He fought with opportunities, he stood challenging when most of them escaped and did not expose their beliefs about what would be more cozy, less complicated existence.
At the end of the 1960s, he was one of the most despised people in America for accepting the most powerful nation in the world, refusing to support the war in Vietnam and against communism.
But Ali, and then only in the twenty, did not fasten himself under the powerful wave of hostility – calling to be a traitor, the risk of his family’s security – and the threat of prison and taking his world heavyweight.
And now he is probably the most recognizable and recognized athlete in history. He is worshiped not only in his homeland, but everywhere.
The world, not just boxing, was lucky that he had it. Even muted by Parkinson’s disease, Ali retained an unusual and incomparable presence.
Nevertheless, I always wondered why a man would be so lovely and majestic to sport that would expose his handsome qualities or like a warrior so generously blessed with defensive skills and unusual reflexes, because Ali was always absorbed by too many blows on the head.
Those who insist, Ali’s career had nothing to do with his condition, could disagree. But when I look like his criminal fights Joe FrazierKen Norton, George Foreman, Leon Spinks, in particular Larry Holmes, and then thinks about his 61 fights, ending when Ali had nearly 40, and all the burdensome training and sparring that accompanied each test, there is no doubt that the boxer taught Muhamad a cruel lesson.
Even Ali, such an smart boxer, brisk thinker, masterfully brisk and absurd brave, could not avoid this blow.
In the ring he had stunning endurance, he could stab perfectly, throw an excellent right wing, hook and a combination at a time of amazing speed. But he wasn’t a substantial blow. He would usually have to connect several times in which Foreman may only need one. He fought his bad hands for over 10 years.
Also also rarely has ever attacked the body, and he was also a master-lifty master, clever in breaking the flow of the opponent’s attack and not always thrilling to watch. But he was an amazing showman, charismatically in his own world.
Was Muhammad Ali really the greatest? There were smaller boxers, more complex punchers, faster removals and those who competed longer and greater success.
Some will also argue that no one could do a blow like Ali. However, I believe that the unique powers of Ali Ali exceeded its durability.
For me, Ali was not the biggest boxer of all time, because he liked to brag so often. But he WAS The greatest man who ever fights in the ring and a boxer who made the most impressive outside.
Life outside the world in which they lead is a fight for most boxers when they retire. Ali suffered a withdrawal of competition, but he never attention.
Sure, he fought too long and against very challenging men in often cruel duels. He should have resigned after defeating the phrase in 1975. However, he led another six years.
The ring was his stage and the pulpit. It was just as comfortable with crowds and people as it is for his own skin.
However, like every person, he made mistakes. He said and did things years ago that today he might not have agreed. But Ali always defended his beliefs.
Regardless of whether in the ring or outside, Ali was unwavering challenging. But he was also dainty, compassionate, witty and generous.
Not only did those who met or met him entered the life, but also people who lived in the distant lands, who believed in different gods, talked about different languages and had contradictory political views.
Muhammad Ali was not just a boxer. He was an artist and warrior of humanity. He was the first real Globetrotting champion.
Perhaps we looked at him in his later life and we were gloomy, but only because we compare what we see with how he was in its splendor.
How can a man who spoke so smoothly be so devastated now?
How did a man who stood so elegantly, statuesque and physically shining in his youth, maybe he was brought to a shocking start?
Like Ali, once so outrageously witty, delightful, addictive and brilliant, be so devoid of expression?
However, it really doesn’t matter because Ali was elated. His life has changed. He was no longer a boxer. With humility, selflessness and courage he threw himself with blows, and thus provided us with another lesson.
When he was in the ring, he never accepted the defeat, but he boldly lived without inhibition. Its form, movements and means of communication have changed, but remained the same being and unique.
No boxer has never shook the world like Ali and I dare say it, never again.
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