He now looks like Smokey Robinson.

Sad.

Read the article. Tried to care. Lost interest.

....this article has so much to think about....which is worse...that Ali won´t support all the leeches in his family??...or that they expect him to do so??

...I never understood why so many people liked this guy...his main skill was that he could punch people senseless ...???... hooray....I always felt he was a phony who despised white America while gladly taking their money and adulation.

...and that attitude towards white people seems passed on to his son...who obviously fails to see the irony that while he complains about "racists" picking on him, he lives in a ´hood that doesn´t allow white people??

Pretty disgusting. Fast money and sports prowess. Hurray. What a legacy. What a life. What a present.

Where there´s a will.....there´s a relative!

According to the deadbeat relatives to whom he gave handouts over the years - he even paid alimony to his brother´s ex-wives, and the 40 year old son had been on the Ali dole for years - the current wife is a bad person.

According to those who know Ali and his condition, and what his current wife has done for him, whe is the best thing in his life. Taking excellent care of him. Keeping him going.

I know who I believe.

In 1967, while transiting thru the Louisville, KY airport, I had the opportunity to meet the draft dodger. I passed. More than likely I will pass on his state funeral also.

Wife #4 is "fearsome" because she shut down the Family Bank of Ali and is protecting this sick old man from the leeches.

Why doesn´t Ali Jr. get a job - he looks healthy enough.

Ali Jr. does have a job. He runs a "candy" store.

The story of angry, bitter losers; so boring it became a punishment to read to the end.
I lost respect for Ali the man, but he was beautiful to watch in the ring. Was he a racist making money off the crackers like me that paid to watch him? Yeah, so what, I got my money´s worth. Was he the best ever? That´s debatable, with no final answer.

Sounds like the M Jackson family part 2 .. They went after their own mom..
Read the article and I am going to forget it after I this..

He wasn´t a mere "draft dodger". Regardless of his beliefs and yours, you should respect what he did. It took guts and he gave up a lot.

No he was not. He influenced a lot of people.
Therefore´´guts´´ would have been to renounce his American citizenship and move to North Vietnam.

you´re right #14..
he wasn´t a "mere" draft dodger..
i, and millions of other AMERICANS, registered for the draft about the same time as this PC jerk..

he was the QUINTESSENTIAL draft dodger..
a tool of the Alinsky anti-American crowd..
a protege of their new Kenyan in Chief..
a figurehead of the communists who you could not tell the truth about without being a RACIST..
back then the media was NOT MSM and there were still plenty of AMERICANS who called this fraud out..
now, the Left and their MSM tool, always in need of their PEOPLE to take the place of old dead HEROES and SAINTS use this old fool (and MLK and Harvey Milk et al) to replace REAL heroes and saints..
"Muhammed Ali Day".. sounds good..
no.. not a "mere" draft dodger.. an icon of the New World Order which is out to destroy America...

I agree with #14. And for a sports figure (or for anyone in public life for that matter), he was highly witty, colorful and entertaining. Not the usual celebrity by any means.

Glad I don´t have to always view every single person and thing in life through a political lens!

Maybe his best friend,Orrin Hatch, can write a song for him.

Ali in his day was a very colorful figure. He was a good boxer, but without the endless and unequivocal hype of Howard Cosell, would anybody have considered him "the Greatest", greater than his contemporary Joe Frasier, for example? Cassius Clay rejected his Baptist roots in favor of an illegitimate brand of Islam and adopted the phony Arab moniker, Muhammed Ali. Ali turned his back on his country on the phony pretext of being a conscientious objector, a proclivity not noticed prior to the very real possibility that he might end up going to serve and get shot at. Elvis Aron Presley, who had at least as much to lose as Ali, did nothing of the sort. All in all, just another figure int the American pantheon of heroes with feet of Clay.

The only thang thicker than blood... is money!

I agree with #19.

That "Greatest" palaver was pure nonsense - - thought up by the two-bit hustler Cosell to embellish his own career.

Clay was a good dancer who could take a punch - - but he was no better - - actually worse - - than his contemporaries and opponents Joe Frazier and Kenny Norton - - and way inferior to greats like Louis, Marciano, and Holmes.

His family members drive around with bumper stickers printed

"Where there´s a will, put me in it"

Whoops, might help to read the article first. And yes, it would appear that Lonnie has taken good care of him over the years. I wonder if she ever tried to help his son (i.e. help him get on his feet), but surely not, and would probably have been futile anyway given the welfare culture.

Not a surprise. The stuff of Shakespeare and many before him.

A classic story. The big man keeps changing wives and/or mistresses. And each new one tries to secure power by purging everyone from his past who has any influence.

Often her motive is to secure the inheritance for herself and her children. Mr. Big´s prior children are an obstacle.

But drama isn´t that simple. We can´t read minds.