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RockaFowler

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2. Still remember when I saw Ali in person

Reply to H2O Man (Original post)

Fri Jan 17, 2014, 12:26 PM

Jan 2014

I didn't meet him or anything. I was at a Mike Tyson fight in 1999 in Vegas. We were up in the upper balcony, but you could see when people were arriving with their entourages. And then it started. There were chants that started from below us "ALI! ALI! ALI!". Everyone started to stand as we watched him walk into the arena. Then the chants got louder and louder as more and more people could see him take his seat. It still gives me chills to this day. He was that kind of person that everyone appreciated and we were mesmerized just seeing him walk into the room. Just amazing I tell you!!

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