The Ali documentary on telly now

[Graham E]

Is it me, or does Ali come accross as a complete tosser? Completely racist, a coward, and a backstabber all in 1 - or is it just the filmmaker making him look bad?

[Plotloss]

Its well documented that he certainly went through a stage of being a complete tt.

That 1974 Parkinson interview is an eye opener and quite probably the only time I've ever seen Parky lost for words.

[groucho]

It takes some coward to play rope-a-dope with somebody like Foreman punching the st out of you.

[toasty]

Slightly O/T but there's a great Tyson documentary on Sky anytime at the moment.

[groucho]

toasty said:

Slightly O/T but there's a great Tyson documentary on Sky anytime at the moment.

What channel?

[Robatr0n]

groucho said:

It takes some coward to play rope-a-dope with somebody like Foreman punching the st out of you.

I know that was tongue in cheek, but foreman didn't land too many shots on him. Bloody good fight though, I watched it a few nights ago for about the 20th time.

Anyway, yes he comes across as a tosser and for that moment in time he was a tosser but there is such a thing as two way traffic and for once Smokin' Joe received a positive spin on events instead of the one sided media campaign Ali had at the time of the fight.

[Office_Monkey]

I watched this the other day, and agree with you. Frazier came across as an extremely bitter man too.

[toasty]

groucho said:

toasty said:

Slightly O/T but there's a great Tyson documentary on Sky anytime at the moment.

What channel?

Sorry that's 'Sky Anytime'. The one that prepicks programmes for you.

[anonymous-user]

groucho said:

toasty said:

Slightly O/T but there's a great Tyson documentary on Sky anytime at the moment.

What channel?

[Simpo Two]

If a black guy calls another black guy a gorilla, is that racist? And anyway, gorillas are perfectly nice animals. If you call your girlfrind 'hamster' is that racist?

(Mind you he did look remarkably like a gorilla)

[MOTORVATOR]

Graham E said:

Is it me, or does Ali come accross as a complete tosser? Completely racist, a coward, and a backstabber all in 1 - or is it just the filmmaker making him look bad?

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