ALI

"How to strike, what you do not see ..."
As in every Yugoslav family and in my house, every possible sport was watched. Biathlon, nordic running, jumping, tennis, what your heart desires. Again, in addition to the usual football and basketball tournaments, the number one sport in Avdić's home was Boxing.

Daddy, and just before him, they were all around for important boxing matches. It did not miss it. Meza and drinks in pajamas like Reuf, Nele and Minka in Nadrealists. I remember sitting early in the morning in the living room after Tyson's shocking defeat of Buster Douglas, while the old man recalled: "Fuck, Lose Tyson" (I think the bettors did not exist there, the man was simply shaken).

Only one of the athletes I knew almost all of the oral tradition, without ever watching him live.

Muhammad Ali.

The details of the matches that the two gentlemen talked to me were so accurate and precise that I asked them years later that it was possible to remember so many moments from one look, but she probably meant how much it meant (again, the old could have 45 minutes to the story of Oscar Bonaveni, and my name was festoon. When I was eight, I wanted to call Oscar Bonavena.) Not just them. For entire generations of people who sat watching his mastery Muhammad Ali was and remained bigger than life. Compound everything. Looks like (Mom's Mom With It: "Extremely Handy Man For Boxer Pretty"), Wit, Talent, Stories, Attraction, Courage, Decisiveness. It's like letting you sing a singer, rapper, actor, writer, revolutionary, visionary into one person and give her the biggest boxing talent ever seen. That was Muhammad Ali. About.

The story has so much and it is so fascinating that there really is not an athlete who can approach it from this time distance. Everything they are trying today in any sport, But he worked in the 1960s and worked better ... "Sonny Liston is a big, ugly bear, after winning it I donate it to a zoo ..." Doctor of provocation, master of promotion. which black managers and portparoli ... But I was all alone.

After winning the Gold Olympic medal in Rome, Kasijus Klej went with a medal around the door to a nurse in his Lujvila to eat something. The landlord was waiting for him at the time with well-known words: "The blacks here are not good here" ... "I want to eat ... I'm an Olympic champion, see the medal!" Klej replied. "For me you are just a nigger".

There were also several local caucuses in the quarrel who were barely receptive to starting a quarrel with a black guy. They followed him after he left the restaurant in order to be beaten and of course made a fatal mistake. Clay beaten them in a row and then dragged the gold medal into the water that was never found later ...

The champion has been victorious by the terrible Sonny Liston of a man with the mafias of the ties and the blow he has been burning. Shortly thereafter, Kasijus Klej became Muhamed Ali. Shortly thereafter, he received a call to war in Vietnam.

Unlike most athletes who are mostly involved in telling what people like to hear or when they open their mouth, they say some things that kill you in the mind, But he was intelligent enough and brave enough to fight for his beliefs and not to take it. "I do not want to kill the Vikingsongers, they did not do anything to me in life, they never called me a nigger, unlike some others ...". He did not want to respond to the army. He was sentenced to imprisonment. He came to recruiting in Houston and after having named his name three times, he did not go out.

He was sentenced to a wholly white jury of five years in jail and $ 10,000 in fines. Given that the appeal was immediately made and that a paid deposit was paid But he did not go to jail, but he could not have officiated matches for three and a half years ... "He stole the three best years of his career, when he was at the peak he could not boxing. " - said his legendary coach Angelo Dundee ...

He returned after the Supreme Court pronounced the decision invalid and there was a boxing anthology in which two more men participated. Muhammad Ali, Smokin 'Joe Frazier and Big George Foreman. The greatest and best era in the history of boxing. Three uncompromising fighters. Ready to die for victory. Charismatic, original characters with film behavior and nicknames. Everyone with a special style in the ring and out of it.

Muhammad with his "I AM THE BEST! EVERY TIME !!" performances. Joe Frazier, a silent, always blurry lookout from the streets of Philadelphia and George Forman, the strongest striker in box history. A man out of his hands holding his hands in his pockets as if he was hiding guns ... But after three years the break did not "fly like a butterfly and beaded like a bee". The fastest leg in the history of boxing was no longer there, but the incredible desire to be a champion was still present ...