Louisville, Kentucky has honored their local hero, U.S. heavyweight boxing champion, activist, humanitarian, poet, spokesperson and icon MUHAMMAD ALI ("CASSIUS MARCELLUS CLAY") with a wonderful, PUBLIC funeral procession and star studded burial and memorial. WILL SMITH (ACTOR), MIKE TYSON (BOXER), GEORGE FOREMAN (BOXER), BRYANT GUMBEL (SPORTS COMMENTATOR), BILLY CRYSTAL (ACTOR/COMEDIAN), FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON, LENNOX LEWIS (BOXER) were pall bearers for MUHAMMAD ALI's remains and speakers at his memorial.
MUHAMMAD ALI passed away 6/3/2016 at 74, in ARIZONA, due to respiratory issues and septic shock (organ failure).
For over 30 years, MUHAMMAD ALI suffered from PARKINSON'S DISEASE while keeping an active schedule of engagements.
ITP V.016 EDITORS NOTE:
ALI, ALI, ALI!!! This man is one of my heroes. The GREATEST OF ALLLLLLLLL TIME!!! MUHAMMAD ALI (BOXER-ACTIVIST-"CASSIUS MARCELLUS CLAY") , A poet, an activist, he stood against the war, charming, charismatic, very pre-ttay, a world boxing champion and an inspiration to us to love our selves and stand up for justice and civil rights. .
Let's carry on his legacy.
Please show some respect and send positive thoughts, condolences to MUHAMMAD ALI's family and friends: https://www.facebook.com/MuhammadAliVerified/
http://spak-individualthoughtpatterns.blogspot.com/2016/06/itp-v016-only-one-per-coffin-rip.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/11/sports/muhammad-ali-funeral-procession.html?_r=0
FROM BILLY CRYSTAL and ABC NEWS:
Billy Crystal on Muhammad Ali refusing to fight in Vietnam War: "It was Ali who stood up for us by standing up for himself." abcn.ws/28q2IC2
FROM LA TIMES:
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-greenfeld-muhammad-ali-political-risk-20160610-snap-story.html
VIDEO BELOW: MUHAMMAD ALI PUBLIC FUNERAL, BURIAL and MEMORIAL, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY (COURTESY OF NY TIMES):
VIDEO BELOW: BILLY CRYSTAL ON MUHAMMAD ALI: (COURTESY OF FOX 10 PHOENIX))
VIDEO BELOW: LONNIE ALI AT MUHAMMAD ALI (COURTESY OF FOX 10 PHOENIX):
VIDEO BELOW: NATASHA MUNDKUR (COURTESY OF GLOBAL NEWS and MUHAMMAD ALI CENTER):
We wish we could share all of the powerful and moving eulogies from yesterday's Memorial Service, but there is one that we must.
Natasha Mundkur is a graduate of the Muhammad Ali Center Council of Students and we are all incredibly proud of her.
Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-
All praise and love to MUHAMMAD ALI
...and he's still pretty.