{"id":342,"date":"2007-07-08T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-08T13:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=342"},"modified":"2007-07-08T09:08:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-08T13:08:00","slug":"sly-on-muhammad-ali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2007\/07\/08\/sly-on-muhammad-ali\/","title":{"rendered":"Sly On Muhammad Ali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stallonezone.com\/imgs\/news\/2007\/July\/070807sly_ali.jpg?w=640\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">On <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Wednesday<\/span>, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Muhammad Ali<\/span> turned <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">65<\/span>.  <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Sly<\/span> was quoted for an article celebrating the champ and here&#8217;s what he had to say:<\/span>  <span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What makes him the greatest fighter is that he simply had skills that exceeded anyone\u2019s expectations,&#8221; <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Sylvester Stallone<\/span>, who created and starred in the epic <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&#8220;Rocky&#8221;<\/span> films, told <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Reuters<\/span>.<\/span>  <span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Stallone\u2019s Rocky character <\/span>was based on a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">1975<\/span> opponent of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Ali\u2019s<\/span>, journeyman <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Chuck Wepner<\/span>, a liquor salesman who lost a technical knockout to the champion in the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">15th round<\/span>.<\/span>  <span style=\"font-family:arial;\">&#8220;He was the fastest, the best, the most positive and they\u2019ll never see the likes of him ever again,&#8221; <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Stallone<\/span> said of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Ali<\/span>. &#8220;Maybe the greatest athlete of all time.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">For the full article click <\/span><a style=\"font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tiscali.co.uk\/news\/newswire.php\/news\/reuters\/2007\/01\/17\/sport\/memories-of-ali-still-vivid-as-34the-greatest34-turns-65.html&amp;template=\/news\/feeds\/story_template.html\">HERE<\/a><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">. <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&#8211; Craig<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, Muhammad Ali turned 65. Sly was quoted for an article celebrating the champ and here&#8217;s what he had to say: &#8220;What makes him the greatest fighter is that he simply had skills that exceeded anyone\u2019s expectations,&#8221; Sylvester Stallone, who created and starred in the epic &#8220;Rocky&#8221; films, told Reuters. Stallone\u2019s Rocky character was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21","category-celebs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-5w","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}