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  • Two of a kind.

  • Ha ha this is cool. They both had amazing hands.

  • What an amazing man. Thank you.

  • everyone knows he is the best ever? do you really believe that?

  • A great clip.

  • Cassius Clay knew how to promote himself, he had a great talent for that. Very different than the negative publicity modern celebrities embroil themselves in.

  • What a clip!!

    "Can it be it was all so simple then..."

  • Love the pairing. Talk about diversity on several different levels! America in it's prime.

  • Love the pairing of the two. Talk about diversity on sevveral levels!

  • Ali is a M.C.!

  • !

    pinche Ali!!

    whadda champ

  • Not just a great boxer, but also had a great sense of humor and even greater talent for publicity.  Whatever anyone thinks of the man personally, Ali brought the sport of prize fighting out of the shadows and into the mainstream of sports more than anyone else ever has.

  • Love this man!

  • CLAY.

  • The birth of Gangsta Rap.

  • Two of the best ever. Thanks for posting this. A great memory for me.

  • one of the first good rappers!

  • phuckizlam your really nuts!!! see a quack

  • @nicetan01 Go fuck yourself raw. Who the hell said YOU could talk?

  • That was before he became a fuckin' moslem.

  • @phuckizlam its Muslim , to you redneck inreeder..

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  • Mohamed Ali, musician version.

  • "for a change do the one about you"

  • great video :D

  • The genesis of rap.

  • @Sierra688 Sorry, but the beatnicks were doing rap long before Ali. Guys like Lord Buckley, who is often refered to as "the original rapper" were way ahead of anything by Ali.

    That's right, rap was invented by lazy white men with mustaches and beards who would rather hang out in a coffee house then get a job. The really funny part is they didn't rap about bitches, guns, drugs, sex or how badass they were. They were real poets, not punks who simply could ryme. And it was not just about them.

  • @infodisinfo Well, yeah, they read poetry to music. Props to your note on Lord Buckley. But as a musical style it may have been guys who originated Rap like brotha James Brown, the DJ's with their record scratching (which some credit Kool Herc as the very first, with honorable mention to Pete D.J. Jones) and stuff like Jamaican "toasting".

    But if you still want music accompanying poetry as the origins of Rap Music, then check out an early group called "The Last Poets". Lots of good stuff man.

  • @usmjam Hey, thanks! I will look into them just for the sake of intrest to know. I've had conversations with people about rap who claim it was actually started by tribesmen hundreds of years ago when they gave oral accounts of tribe history at gatherings. I would consider this story telling, but then again, most good songs are composed in such a manner as to tell a story. Often things are discovered, or invented/started only to be lost! Like running water in homes.

    Best to you.

  • this is awesome!

  • I think this was the first rap song.

    If another doesn't come along

    that moves better than this guy,

    then boxing is gonna die.

  • "for a change do the one about you...."

    ROFL.

  • Don't see confidence like that every day.

    What a champ!

  • I noticed that back in the day when someone won a title they never used to wear it... is this because they neva had any or something? please reply

  • ali is cool

  • everybody knows Cassius Clay is best boxer ever

  • @ASININIUS55 Muhammad Ali ..

  • @ASININIUS55

    Muhammad Ali!! Cassius Clay is dead.

  • @ASININIUS55 its MUHAMMED ALI MUHAMMED ALI MUHAMMED ALI MUHAMMED ALI MUHAMMED ALI MUHAMMED ALI MUHAMMED ALI MUHAMMED ALI MUHAMMED ALI MUHAMMED ALI MUHAMMED ALI MUHAMMED ALI MUHAMMED ALI MUHAMMED ALI MUHAMMED ALI its MUHAMMED ALI MUHAMMED ALI MUHAMMED ALI MUHAMMED ALI MUHAMMED ALI its MUHAMMED ALI MUHAMMED ALI MUHAMMED ALI MUHAMMED ALI MUHAMMED ALIits MUHAMMED ALI MUHAMMED ALI MUHAMMED ALI MUHAMMED ALI after this hard to forget right?

  • Liberace was gay but it's a little known fact he could punch the lights out of most anyone (except ALI) cos' he was a competition boxer too

  • He was gay?

  • Yeah. So what?

  • Johnny Harpe is a HATER!

  • johnny harpe sounds like a miserable person still using the n word and speading his hate on a 45 year old film. what a loser

  • You think there's a pat on the head waiting for you for saying "n word", lol, what a fucking PC coward.

  • Boy, I didn't realize Liberace was such a big fruit way back then, lol.

  • johnnyharpe u dont know much do u? What happened to u as a child? Dont answer it may be the only thing u say that makes sense unfortunately

  • I know how to spell "you", stupid.

  • Yeah right. U couldnt spell without assistance from your 'special needs' carer. Get a new shrink too the one U R seeing is not making any breakthroughs here coz clearly U cant stop making a fool of yourself. Now please try again to shock me & everyone else. I dont think ur actually succeeding. YAWNFEST!

  • Well, you don't know how to properly form an English sentence, dim-wit. The comma goes inside the pair of quotation marks.

    You sound like one of these braying homophobes, and we all know what that really means about you.

  • God, what a moron you are, lol.

  • We have voted you off the island.

  • Of course you have. That's what little, pissy-pants liberals always do.

  • You have jumped the shark. By the way, I'm sure I could 1. play the piano better than you, and 2. knock the shit out of you in a fight, so what are you doing watching a vid with Liberace and Ali?

  • Cassius Clay surely inspired some of Tay Zondays mannerisms.

  • i agree with Bathhouse willy someone parked there bike there thinking it was a stand

    and still heard a silent thank you from below the ground

  • Surely is a delightful clip ! Thank you for the posting ,kilhoughton .

  • Cassius Clay was and is ... The Hero.

  • everyone know he lost to frazier but how many time he beat frazier? maybe u forgotten or u realy dont know about muhmmad ali the greatest all time right?

    he beat frazier two time in row

  • And he lost to Frazier after a 3 1/2 year ban from boxing. After his return he wasn't the same. Everyone knows that without the ban, he would remain undefeated.

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  • Well, obviously he was or else he wouldn't have denied it. What the hell kind of question is that? Do you think before you post?

  • More likely he was afraid of the damage it would do to his career, given the homophobia of that era. Do you think before YOU post?

  • he had it all he was the best boxer and the best mc

  • ali the greatest mc of all time!!

  • Ali took on the bullshit government and won. Just like John Lennon did years later and they were both the GREATEST!!! And Libby was no slouch either. Great clip!

  • Wtf did Lennon do that was so great?

  • exactly :D

  • ALI. The Greatest.

  • So Muhammed Ali invented rap. Damn. He really was the greatest.

  • imagine that..race being brought up again ! can't be..simply cant be

  • Never liked him as a person....but he was a GREAT boxer.  Can't take that away from him.

  • Liberace had a glee like he wanted to grab Ali's kielbasa and suck it dry.

  • i knew clay when i interviewed him at the george washington carver hotel in miami long before he became the fraud ali...he's a racist, he told me back then that white people shouldn't be allowed to live in either georgia or florida....he's a bum, his best punch was a jab that was a flicker, couldn't even break a brown paper bag....the liston second fight was a fix, but if you listen to the fraud he'll tell you how his mystery punch was so powerful liston just couldn't take it....

  • shut your face your a bum and a fraud talking down on the GREATEST OF ALL TIME what have

  • While the boys in Vietnam are fighting till death.

    I'll hide behind religion so I can enjoy my last breath.

  • well he got parkinson;s so he's enjoying nothing

  • HE NEVER WENT TO PRISON.

  • Muhammad Ali fought Liston, Frazier, Norton and Spinks but more importantly, he fought against racism, intolerance and war while he fought for freedom of religion and independent thought. he was a hero. Ali gave up his livelihood and went to prison for what he believed in, he believed that war is wrong. he was a courageous person of integrity.

  • Thank you for those views, mister right-wing stereotype.

  • Ali was a great guy. One thing annoys me though. He changed his name because it was his 'slave name'. Christianity was a 'white religion'. Never mind that the Muslims were the ones selling the slaves to the whites!

  • Don't forget Islam didn't even come to Africa until around the 7th century. The Coptic and Ethiopian Christian Churches were established in Africa loooong before the first muslim set foot on the contintent.

  • oh MY! "The Odd Couple"!

  • he is a good sleeping pill..

    hey..do you have insomnia ?

  • overated loser, wow are you ever in denial. he was champion of the world. what have you done except sleep with your own sister.

  • sf75115...You seem to a hatred for Ali, you say he's a coward..that people who like the guy are sheep with no god.

    You are a moron!

    Please be very offended when i say to you..you are a perverse nutter who should be ashamed of your parents for bringing up such a racist idiotic crass simpleton.

  • Ali wasn't the most educated man as far as book smart but obviously he was intelligent in the way he fought, and also with his sense of humor and remarkable wit. He was not stupid... and you all to be shamed of yourself for making fun of his illness! That was a low blow.

  • you are a moron.ya he should have gone to war for a country that would not even serve a hamburger to him cause he was black.you obviously have not watched him fight or you would not be questioning his courage.the fact he is a zombie i blame on your stupid pointless war they stole 4 years of his prime and he stayed in boxing to long cause he loved being heavyweight champ and the land of the free unjustly took his title from him.p.s.your an a hole.

  • Wouldnt be too hard on Cassius Clay/M.Ali. He demonstrated enormous courage and bravery, in his career, see his fight with Joe Frazier.He is arguably one of the most skillful, if not the most skillful boxer of all time, and, he

    had astonishing charisma, loved and respected by fans the World over,a rare characteristic. He wasnt perfect, none of us are,he is only human after all, but he brought pleasure and excitement to millions, another rare gift.

  • why would u fight for a country that wouldnt let you eat in a certain restaurant right after you went and won the gold medal for them?? and good education wasnt in the blacks schools. they took it away. dont u know american history or are YOU too stupid??

  • Greatest sportsman of all time some loser and why watch videos of him if u hate u fkn wally

  • Your just jealous because your a nobody, just like the rest of us.

  • You are the one with the low I.Q. ..git.

  • "Today he shakes like a circus side show freak."

    lol, that put me in tears.

  • your gay

  • You call Ali a coward while you sit behind a computer screen typing nonsense. Get a life you pussy!

  • i told u go suck joe lousi dick u racist

  • It's a really cool vid, tho- my first post was just in jest.

  • Man, not since the Punisher went to Riverdale ...

  • grande homem:)

  • sf75115 you our a racist bastard who hides behind a computer screen grow up!

  • What a combo. Lee and Ali. It's fun to see.

  • Joe Louis didnt do $hit for the civil rights movements and he fought for a country that discriminated against him.

    Ali told the white man how it was, he won the gold medal for America in the olympics yet after winning it he wasnt allowd to eat in an American restaurant for his color, thats why he threw the gold medal away.

    Ali didnt want to fight for America, a country that discriminated him, and he didnt DODGE the draft, he confronted it and was willing to pay the time for not going for it.

  • Joe Louis was a great fighter. Cassius Clay was a tinkerbell dancer.

  • Joe was the white man's poodle. Ali tore the white man a new asshole. sf75115 and homoboy488 - you dykes need to come harder than that.

  • ali the greatest mc of all time!!!!!!!!!

  • Sf75115 talks shit! fuck of and smell your mother

  • Read carefully sheep. Cassius Clay did nothing on principle. He was a coward, selfish and incredibly stupid. He has the lowest IQ in boxing history and mediocre boxing skills. Cassius Clay shakes today like a little baby girl for a reason. There is a just God!

  • You have the very definable characteristics of the Backwoods, backwards White Supremist racist. It's obvious by your one diminsensional diatribe that is nothing more than venomous hate without any real foundation.

  • It was Character, and intelligence that made him defy his draft assignment. It was not just logic, but common sense to reply, "Why should I [Muhammed Ali] go kill some vietcong who has'nt done anything to me, to defend your right to hang me, and call me nigger for just walking down the street?"

    The analogy is superbly apropo.

  • What a pair ! 2 Icons different as steak and potatoes, together on tv. This is historical video.

  • Ali was a great fighter but an asshole of a man. It's charactor that counts, there are a lot of good fighters but not a lot of good charactor.

  • hey sf75115 u stupid son of a bitch of course he was gonna have a low iq he started boxing when he was like 15 and he was black so he couldn't get a proper education. And besides it's boxing, im a boxer and you dont need to be smart to be a good boxer u fuck look at mike tyson. Muhammed ali was a great man because he stood up for freedom and he changed the way white people looked at blacks thats why he is called the greatest that and his boxin skill

  • people were only praising their talents as entertainers...

    Christianity is as much of an entertaining farce...Christianity promotes intolerance and contradicts itself all the time...I think the Gnostic Gospels make more sense than the "accepted" writings in the Bible...

  • Islam is worse my friend. Muhammad Ali, ha what a farce!

  • He´s The Greatest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • You seem prejudice. He did more than you probably ever did. He was courageous in refusing to be drafted and going to jail for his principles, would you?

  • sf75115 yeah!!! and mother Terassa sucks too right? sf75115 you should go to the army-be all you can be!!!!! sf75115 yur MATRIX LARVA----- A SORRY DRONE!!!!!!---GO plug into a X Box scum bag!!!!!---annie

  • What have you done lately?

  • Like i said...your knowledge of Ali is laughable, and i see your just goading people to give a response to your comments because frankly, nobody can be as dense as your trying to be.

    Say what you wish about the man, i refuse to indulge you any longer...i will say this though...he did more in his first twenty years of life than you will do in your entire life.

  • sf75115: your knowledge of Ali is laughable, he is a highly intelligent man and a world class boxer that the world will NEVER see again, ever.

    Six golden glove titles, two national golden glove titles, and light heavyweight Olympic Medal are just some of his accomplishments.

    He went toe to toe against people that could kick your ass now, let alone in their prime.

    Face it dude...the only joke here is you.

  • 2 brilliant guys and it was improvised!

  • ironically both these guys were in wrestlemania

  • He is not a lowlife. He's awesome. You're jealous of his cool, yo.

  • Cassius was great in those days!

  • muhammed alis still livin idiot

  • Original Rap!

  • Both are dead, get over it.

  • Ali (Clay) and Liberace. Is this not the most bizarre team-up of all time?

  • Dick Cavett wasn't even known when Clay/Ali started his poetry. And who gives a hoot if he's gay, no one straight or gay or neutered beat him when he was at the top. The times, especially when he changed his name, especially when he rejected the draft, times were hardly simple, hardly at all. It was Hollywood putting on all those popular long haired rockers on TV shows, you should thank them for this liberal society we live in where you can be openly rude

  • Liberance and Clay, Oh for simpler times where boxers only needed to guard there faces and not their ears, .

  • The reason for needing to guard one's ears today is that Ali was unique, in trying to imitate him, others could only bleat and curse.

  • Muhamed is the greates name on the planet... the greatest phrophet,....... the greatest boxer..

    Check records for UK alone... Muhammad the most common name and baby name

  • your prophet is dead, bro.

  • still breathing (and rich)...once a prophet..always a prophet...

  • the name choice is not because of muhammad ali

  • Hey sf..upset because you didn't get to tongue your b/f today?? How many times have you been on your knees this week sissy-boy? Have you got the taste out of your mouth yet??? Your name is now "Nancy"...you little queer.

  • How about some respect for gays?

  • thanks for the memory......

  • .hmm...first rap song?

  • Haha, awesome.

  • Great stuff! Thanks for sharing.

  • Yeah, and either one of them could bitch slap the taste out of your mouth, punk. [i notice you watched it too, tinkerbell]

  • awesome

  • wow. i thought that elton john with eminem was original until i saw this. rad.

  • Who would have thought that two men of such energy and charisma would develop illness that would almost silence them

  • What most people didn't know or believe was that guys like MA and Elvis, John Wayne, etc., were huge fans of Liberace's work, flair and outright BALLS(You'd have to be ballsy to pull of THOSE outfits!)!

  • Or a tinkerbell, like Cassius Clay was!

  • Or a pathetic asshole loser, like you so obviously are!!!

  • Why am i not surprised....you piece of shit !!

  • BOTH men has class, charm, drive and intelligence. Those qualities are really very rare for this current generation's musicians and boxers.

  • thats some funny stuff.. He talks the talk !!

  • WOW! Some real history.

  • and thats when rap music was born

  • lol

  • Would bet that Cassius Clay and Liberace have a lot in common, lifestyle wise that is . . .

  • muhammed ali haz gotton TALENTS

  • ali was the prettiiest thing dat ever lived u ugly shit

  • Far from beautiful, he is quite ugly! The attitude, more than the appearance!

  • Looks like someone is Jealous of the greatest. Ali laughed at people like you while getting richer.