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09-22-2021, 06:00 PM | Topic Starter |
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Anyone Watching the Ken Burns doc on Muhammad Ali?
On PBS, of course… episode 3 starts tonight at 7
Stumbled onto episode 1 just as it started Monday and have been glued to it ever since, it honestly may be Burns best work IMHO… it doesn’t hurt that it’s a modern subject, so there’s SO much great footage, pics and radio calls I’m not even some big boxing history fan, but damn it’s riveting tv nonetheless… turn it on now if you can |
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09-22-2021, 06:17 PM | #2 |
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No, sounds awful.
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09-22-2021, 06:19 PM | #3 |
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But I'll give it a go for you buddy.
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09-22-2021, 06:19 PM | #4 |
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I listened to him on a podcast talking about it and it does sound like he feels like he's made his masterpiece. I'll check it out sometime
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09-22-2021, 06:22 PM | #5 |
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09-22-2021, 06:26 PM | #6 |
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Episode 4 is on here. I caught #2 the other night and have the others set to record.
It makes me miss that era of boxing.
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09-22-2021, 06:32 PM | #7 |
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It's good, no surprise. I've missed some of it, but the segment on the first Frazier fight had material I'd never seen or heard of before.
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09-22-2021, 07:02 PM | #8 |
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“Whatever you do, don’t stop the fight… I’m gonna eat that halfbreeds heart out of his chest” - Joe Frazier to his trainer Eddie Futch before the Thrilla In Manilla
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09-22-2021, 07:11 PM | #9 |
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I forgot how brutal that fight with Frazier was.
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09-22-2021, 07:48 PM | #10 |
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“We went over there Champions, and came back old men”
He should’ve retired after that, or at the very least after he got redemption on Spinks… too many people around him were blinded by the glitz, just letting him get destroyed in pointless matches toward the end Letting Holmes bludgeon him like that was criminal, throw in the towel you greedy bastards |
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And talk about malpractice, how many Dr.'s missed the Parkinson's diagnosis.
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The way the doc made it seem, Frazier earned Ali’s respect in that one, but not the other way around, because Ali had just said one too many horrible things about him over the years |
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Missed the first episode because of that debacle in Baltimore Sunday but have watched the rest. Very awesome. A lot of stuff I did not know.
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