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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Terrell Ernie was one of the most underrated, and great fighters of the oft remembered Golden Age of heavyweights. He was overshadowed by Ali, Foreman, and Frazier, and unfortunately, by the events building up to Ali-Terrell. In my mind, and I will expand on this thought in an article, he was exploited by the Ali, and Nation of Islam, public relations machine, for absolutely no good reason, other then a selfish one. To me, as much as I love Ali, calling somebody an Uncle Tom is 100 times worse then what Ernie did by accident. It is especially worse because in no way did he deserve being called that. On a boxing note, think on this. You can believe all you want about Ali trying to "punish" Ernie the whole way, but I think that is silly for two reasons. First, Ernie had to keep getting up, and fighting each round, and two, Ali was supposedly way more mad at Ernie then most of the other guys Ali fought in his career. Ali knocked out Foreman, Frazier, Liston, Lyle, Wepner, Foster, Patterson, Quarry, Ellis, Bonavena, Folley, Moore, countless others, yet, not Terrell, the man who supposedly insulted him so terribly. Good Luck Ernie, and thanks for the interview. More on www.boxingconfidential.com
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I don't care what anyone says - - Ernie was and is a gentleman and certainly did not deserve to be disrespected like that by Ali and his people
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As great as he was Ali didn't mind playing the race card.
He called Frazier an Uncle Tom as well. Watch the documentary about how Joe helped him out while he was banned and then Ali insulted him -
ol uncle tom
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Ernie was a great boxer, but he's full of it. He disrespected his name purposely. He knew damn well what his new name was. Ali didn't knock him out because he wanted to punish him. If Ali wanted him out of there he would have.
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RIP Ali good man and wonderful boxer!
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MUCH RESPECT
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Fucked up Terrel ,he didn't like being called an Uncle Tom, yet he wouldn't respect Alis wishes, what a prick, he ended up as a janitor cleaning prison toilets , what a fart!
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Ali punished him. so fuck you terrell
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Ali got all up in that "Azz".
Served him absolutely right!!!! -
Sounds like a good fair man to me
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I believe that Ali took it too far.
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Still whining after all these years.
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Terrell should have just respected Ali. He made every excuse he could find not to call him Ali. Served him right Ali handed his ass to him
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Nice glasses Ernie
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Terrell is a gentleman to this day as this interview shows...one of the old school fighters...and he lasted the 15 with Ali.....I reckon Terrell is a freekin legend....
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Similarly, Ali tried humiliating Joe Frazier in 71'....needless to say, it did not go well for him.
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"when you got 4 world champions but you only got 1 world"..lol
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a lot classier than Cassius Clay .
Wanna be Black Panther .
Ernie was publicly standing with the conservative element in America (a nice way of putting it).