"I murdered a rock"

[Weasels wake]

'I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale, handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick. I'm so mean I make medicine sick.'
- Ali said this before the historic Rumble in the Jungle match that took place in 1974 in Zaire against George Foreman.

'It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.'
- Ali

RIP to the greatest!

[lucabrasi]

Too young to remember either Liston fight but sure remember all the Frazier fights. Those were all you heard about leading up to them. Seemed would wait months to see them on Wide World of Sports and watched as if they were live when that finally happened. Planned your Saturday around it. I remember a friend who was able to see the first one on closed circuit somewhere and he was the big shot at school all around that time. Closed circuit. Wow. Have we come a long ways. That was pretty nifty then tho for sure I guess
I remember this too and how can you not think of Howard when talking about Ali or Frazier. I seem to remember it a bit differently but to a kid it sure was dramatic then.

[jpeter]

This song uses Ali as kind of a goof as the band is introduced at the end.   It's one of the after fight interviews.  I always got a kick out of it.