Evolution takes a while. Wasn't long enough since we bashed things constantly to stay alive.

The world can only handle so much greatness for so long, and great ones can only be bored here for so long. :P

Yeah. He was also pretty amazing break dancer and rapper. He was the Tupac of Torah.

Ali or Jesus?

Because aside from punching, he was also able to...like...dodge 21 punches in 10 seconds.

http://i.imgur.com/LRZwzN5.gif

Dude gives friggin Neo a run for his money.

But I enjoy when people make an ass out of themselves!

Yes he was a great man in the boxing world but saying that he "sacrificed everything for his love and faith in humanity" is simply not true.

The guy was a voracious skirt chaser and very promiscuous.
He has been married and divorced 4 times. The wives simply could not handle his abusive ways.

He pretended to be good Muslim but was sleeping around with many women and had quite a few bastard kids who he ignored when they asked for his financial support and help.

He was also a member of Nation of Islam which is a very anti-Semitic organization and does not believe in women's rights.

He wasn't exactly morally righteous man as the mainstream media portrays him to be.

Boxing is a barbaric "sport". I'd rather glorify actual intelligent people like scientists, engineers, philosophers, etc (i.e. people who actually contribute hugely to society), not people who's sole claim to fame is being able to effectively beat people up (probably causing brain damage later in life, like Ali himself suffered).

Your a brain specialist? Oh,okay then you know what your talking about.

Actually seen as a whole every society needs their psychopaths, crazed killers, deranged and slow witted thugs. They're great in wars and keeping a society functioning in police roles where they're somewhat controlled. Think of them as warrior ants.

When we've evolved a lot more into cooperation then maybe we'll get to your kind of sports.
And then get wiped out by a even mildly aggressive alien species. Killer instinct is one of the most important survival instincts there is evolution wise.

I think it's more about his fame than about violence. I'm sure there are more people knowing about football players than about Ali. I for example don't watch boxing or any other physical contact sport involving blood, the only thing I watched with Ali were videos with him talking (joking or ranting).
And let's face it you are also fascinated about "arbitrary useless things" (I'm sorry I don't really know a better word). When was the last time you talked about the good job the garbage men do? After all we would all be living in a big pile of shit if it wasn't for them.

In my opinion it is sad how people still celebrate only certain people.

What are you trying to sell us here? I can't see any problem with being together with women, there should be no country or place anywhere in the world where loving women is considered against the law. When you intend to blackmail Muhammad Ali as a figure who has fought for justice and equality just because he did a few things you consider sin, maybe you should consider this:
Jesus’ in John 8:7 “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone...”

Edit: grammar corrections

You don't need to be a brain specialist to know that being bashed in the head repeatedly over a long period of time is going to cause brain damage.

You're proof of that. :P

Truly the greatest.