{"id":6389,"date":"2016-06-04T18:01:27","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T18:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/06\/04\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-fighting-songs\/"},"modified":"2016-06-04T18:01:27","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T18:01:27","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-fighting-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/06\/04\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-fighting-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Fighting Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some of us are old enough to remember when he fought and bragged under the name, 'Cassius Clay.'  Later known as Muhammad Ali, the great boxer died yesterday in Scottsdale at age 74.  I won't comment on the man except to wonder how much of Donald Trump's braggadoccio and argumentative tactics were inspired by him. <\/span><\/p>\n

Simon and Garfunkel, The Boxer<\/a>.  "A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest."<\/span><\/p>\n

Rolling Stones, Street Fighting Man<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Bobby Fuller Four, I Fought the Law (and the Law Won)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Born in Chicago<\/a>  <\/span><\/p>\n

I was born in Chicago in nineteen and forty one<\/span>
I was born in Chicago in nineteen and forty one<\/span>
Well my father told me<\/span>
Son you had better get a gun.<\/span><\/p>\n

It's worse than ever.  Liberal policies have turned Chicago into a first-rate killing field.<\/span><\/p>\n

Og Boo Dirty, Let Dem Hos Fight<\/a>.  So what's this inspiring ditty a commentary on?  For contrast:<\/span><\/p>\n

Youngbloods, Get Together<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Johnny Horton, The Battle of New Orleans<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Addendum<\/strong> (6\/5).  The following from Wikipedia.  Does it remind you of someone?<\/span><\/p>\n

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"Talking trash"<\/span><\/h3>\n

Ali regularly taunted and baited his opponents\u2014including Liston, Frazier, and Foreman\u2014before the fight and often during the bout itself. Ali's pre-fight theatrics were almost always highly entertaining, and his words were sometimes cutting, and were largely designed to promote the fight. His antics often targeted a particular psychological trigger or vulnerability in his opponent that would provoke a reaction and cause the opponent to lose focus. He said Frazier was "too dumb to be champion", that he would whip Liston "like his Daddy did", that Terrell was an "Uncle Tom" and that Patterson was a "rabbit." In speaking of how Ali stoked Liston's anger and overconfidence before their first fight, one writer commented that "the most brilliant fight strategy in boxing history was devised by a teenager who had graduated 376 in a class of 391."[125]<\/a><\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n

Ali typically portrayed himself as the "people's champion" and his opponent as a tool of the (white) establishment (despite the fact that his entourage often had more white faces than his opponents'). During the early part of Ali's career, he built a reputation for predicting rounds in which he would finish opponents, often vowing to crawl across the ring or to leave the country if he lost the bout.[16]<\/a><\/sup> Ali admitted he adopted the latter practice from "Gorgeous"George Wagner<\/a>, a popular professional wrestling champion in the Greater Los Angeles Area who drew thousands of fans to his matches as "the man you love to hate."[16]<\/a><\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n

ESPN columnist Ralph Wiley called Ali "The King of Trash Talk."[129]<\/a><\/sup> In 2013, The Guardian<\/em> said Ali exemplified boxing's "golden age of trash talking."[130]<\/a><\/sup>The Bleacher Report called Clay's description of Sonny Liston smelling like a bear and his vow to donate him to a zoo after he beat him the greatest trash talk line in sports history.[131]<\/a><\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Some of us are old enough to remember when he fought and bragged under the name, 'Cassius Clay.'  Later known as Muhammad Ali, the great boxer died yesterday in Scottsdale at age 74.  I won't comment on the man except to wonder how much of Donald Trump's braggadoccio and argumentative tactics were inspired by him.  … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Fighting Songs”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}