Remember THIS Guy?

[Arthur Little]

Completely unrelated in ANY way to the context of my [immediate] *previous thread on Boxing Day. Just mere coincidence it happens to tie-in with the remark I'd made in *its last paragraph.

http://www.channel4.com/news/olympic...sius-clay-1960 ... - if you're of a corresponding generation - in order to help refresh your memories.

Light heavyweight boxing champion and gold medallist at the 1960 Rome Olympics, "I am the greatest !" Cassius Marcellus Clay - who became known as 'Muhammed Ali', some four years' later, following his conversion to Islam.

[Arthur Little]

Light heavyweight boxing champion and gold medallist at the 1960 Rome Olympics, "I am the greatest !" Cassius Marcellus Clay - who became known as 'Muhammed Ali', four years' later, following his conversion to Islam.

So ... Manny Pacquiao, eat your heart out!

[Arthur Little]

Now ... at 73, four times married Ali, in spite of being diagnosed with Parkinsonian Syndrome - a disease believed to be common
to head trauma in boxers - remains alive to the present day.

[grahamw48]

I suppose it helps when you have the financial resources to fund the best available medical care... especially in America ?

[Michael Parnham]

In my eyes, the greatest ever