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Ali at Hatton's GYM, ANY full CLIPS ?

was on the news before.... he looked bad... really bad

they must have paid him some serious cash to come over

sadly Sweet Science - he's been that way for a while. I actually thought he looked better than in other recent pics.

ALI = LEGEND

sweetscience wrote:was on the news before.... he looked bad... really bad

they must have paid him some serious cash to come over

Would money really matter than much to him at this stage?

Asterix wrote:

sweetscience wrote:was on the news before.... he looked bad... really bad

they must have paid him some serious cash to come over

Would money really matter than much to him at this stage?

maybe not to him but it is too his handlers...i heard they charge £1000 per PHOTO

It's always sad to see Ali like that.

Hatton looked really bad I thought, even more so than usual.

Made me wonder for the first time if he will ever come back.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/8222656.stm

I'm meeting him at Windsor castle for an exclusive gala reception and dinner on Friday. Henry Cooper, Amir Khan and British boxing greats will be in attendance. It will be an emotional day.

He's purely trying to raise money for his charity during this tour, and I applaud him for that.

He looked worse than I have ever seen him.

Im glad the money raised is for charity, as sadly it somewhat smacks of a freakshow at times. The guy cant walk unassisted, doesnt speak and looks really really ill. I applaud him for taking the time to do this for his charity, but surely theres an easier way.

The Law wrote:I'm meeting him at Windsor castle for an exclusive gala reception and dinner on Friday. Henry Cooper, Amir Khan and British boxing greats will be in attendance. It will be an emotional day.

He's purely trying to raise money for his charity during this tour, and I applaud him for that.

will you post some pics of the boxers law

i wish i could go and see ali but i cant afford to do it ill have to hope to go see him in america sometime in the future

opticald wrote:He looked worse than I have ever seen him.

Have to, sadly, agree. You can see he still has mental acuity (his response to the snapper's request to remove his glasses) so it must be absolute torture to be trapped like that. If he still wants to get out and about then he should be helped to do so.

Conversely, either I'm getting used to looking at a really overweight Hatton (almost certainly) or he looked like he'd dropped a bit of weight in that BBC clip.

Ian 'Mr' McNeilly wrote:

opticald wrote:He looked worse than I have ever seen him.

Have to, sadly, agree. You can see he still has mental acuity (his response to the snapper's request to remove his glasses) so it must be absolute torture to be trapped like that. If he still wants to get out and about then he should be helped to do so.

Conversely, either I'm getting used to looking at a really overweight Hatton (almost certainly) or he looked like he'd dropped a bit of weight in that BBC clip.

its partly his fault though if the stuff is true that he was on the parkinsons drugs when he fought holmes, i wish he wasnt like that.

yea hatton must of lost weight he usually got a few chins

he does look to be near the end doesn't he.

sad the way he's declined over the years. :(

still got some of that old fighting spirit though.

Im the same Ian , i reckon Hatton doesnt look as bad out of shape as people make out
Hes always put on weight after fights , alot of boxers are like that and he is small so it is easier to pile it on, Clearly he doesnt look like a boxers condition but thats cause he needs to train like a beast to get to that stage. im sure he isnt Drinking and Eating takeaways everynight although maybe he is .
hes earned himself a good living anyway thats for sure

Ian 'Mr' McNeilly wrote:

opticald wrote:He looked worse than I have ever seen him.

Have to, sadly, agree. You can see he still has mental acuity (his response to the snapper's request to remove his glasses) so it must be absolute torture to be trapped like that. If he still wants to get out and about then he should be helped to do so.

Conversely, either I'm getting used to looking at a really overweight Hatton (almost certainly) or he looked like he'd dropped a bit of weight in that BBC clip.

Adamj1987 wrote:

Ian 'Mr' McNeilly wrote:

opticald wrote:He looked worse than I have ever seen him.

Have to, sadly, agree. You can see he still has mental acuity (his response to the snapper's request to remove his glasses) so it must be absolute torture to be trapped like that. If he still wants to get out and about then he should be helped to do so.

Conversely, either I'm getting used to looking at a really overweight Hatton (almost certainly) or he looked like he'd dropped a bit of weight in that BBC clip.

its partly his fault though if the stuff is true that he was on the parkinsons drugs when he fought holmes, i wish he wasnt like that.

The party line from most boxing people re Ali's Parkinson's is that he would probably have got it anyway (didn't his non-boxing father have it? - a top journo told me this so correct me if I'm wrong).

But listening to Henry Cooper on 5 Live at the weekend, he said that Ali's doctor had told him it was caused by taking too many blows to the back of the neck/top of the spine.

Weird.

i went down to hattons gym and was wating in pissin rain for hour and half like several hundred others.It was worth it. To see in the flesh maybe the worlds greatest ever sporting icon. Never mind a boxing great.Like my son said, we can always say we were there when he came over.He looked better than i feared.Hatton said his people wanted him in his wheechair, to which the greatest said..." im not going in no boxing gym in a wheelchair, Im gonna walk in"..Legend.

markinmidd wrote:i went down to hattons gym and was wating in pissin rain for hour and half like several hundred others.It was worth it. To see in the flesh maybe the worlds greatest ever sporting icon. Never mind a boxing great.Like my son said, we can always say we were there when he came over.He looked better than i feared.Hatton said his people wanted him in his wheechair, to which the greatest said..." im not going in no boxing gym in a wheelchair, Im gonna walk in"..Legend.

Agree mate

I remember seeing a story about him crossing the road back in the US, he was struggling badly and people kept going over to help him but he wouldn't have any of it.