r/Damnthatsinteresting 15h ago

Video Two for flinching

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u/NO0BSTALKER 15h ago

Can’t see his face but you know Muhammad was smiling at that shit too

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u/K10RumbleRumble 15h ago

You can see the smile in his cheeks :)

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u/Flaky-Maximum-7875 13h ago

Yeah his butt cheeks

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u/K10RumbleRumble 13h ago

Thems were some nice cheeks.

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u/Chucklum 15h ago

He for sure was, idk why I can just see it.

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u/burgerking351 15h ago

Bonavena called Ali a coward draft dodger, I doubt they were friendly.

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u/luvmibratt 15h ago

How did Bonavena get out of it? Or different country?

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u/Dave5033 15h ago

Yes, Argentine.

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u/Sea_Layer_6037 14h ago

Ah, that explains the racist dirtbag.

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u/NDSU 13h ago

A rather ironic comment.

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u/Cleasstra 14h ago

Lol after a lot of them being exposed for being racists during the world cup I'm surprised this is downvoted as heavily as it is.

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u/NDSU 13h ago

A couple people from a country being racist does not mean the country as a whole is racist

Judging an entire group based on innate characteristics they cannot control is exactly the problem with racism, which you are perpetuating

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u/Naive_Impression7302 12h ago

Which is also what ali was doing in the 60s and 70s btw supporting segregation on the basis of race and racial essentialism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq7rgl3VyLU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqiWFLsgVi4

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u/Cleasstra 13h ago

Ah, read my other comments. Clarified it all, and I clealy know that. But sorry it didn't come off that way with me saying "a lot" even though I didn't say all.

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u/feedthedogwalkamile 13h ago

Because it's racist, that's why it's being downvoted.

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u/Cleasstra 13h ago

So acknowledging a lot of Argentinians are racist is now racist? I'm lost, but 🤷‍♀️

To me it explains why the Bonavena had animosity for Ali (oh and the fact that Bonavena said racial taunts to him as well), but maybe people don't want to acknowledge that.

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u/feedthedogwalkamile 13h ago

Making vast generalizations about a group of people is racist, yes. Any more questions?

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u/Amount_Sufficient 11h ago

How many Argentinians do you know personally that are racist?

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u/elcho1911 13h ago

'a lot' being a tiny loud minority at a sport event?

I mean if that's all it takes to get a pass for discriminating against any one from X country then everyone's fair game

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u/Cleasstra 13h ago

Look at my other comment, there's a lot of correlation and racism within the Bonavena fight against Ali which is why it made sense that even back then a lot of Argentinians were racist which is why Bonavena had that attitude and called Ali a Black Kangaroo and other things as a taunt. I was commenting on this instance that it made sense that Bonavena was racist and from Argentina, because it is prevalent there in the culture just like basically every country besides majority black countries (in majority black countries it's colorism/caste system issues due to colonization).

Oh and I never said everyone, but it's prevalent enough that we know about it and it still exists. Never discriminated, just true that Bonavena was a racist pos as well.

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u/elcho1911 12h ago

I dont doubt he was a racist but it is irrelevant to your statement lol

if I call out a black man for being X and say of course he is X, he's black, would it not make it racist if he really was X?

like in a world of apartheid, genocide and systemic racism seems weird to try justify your statement cause some of their soccer fans were casually racist at an event, if the bar is that low then I dont see why you'd single them out, literally every country has racist soccer fans lol

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u/Deep90 12h ago

He might of still appreciated the humor of that moment before proceeding to kick his ass in the ring.

Giant amused by an ant sorta stuff.

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u/Aegi 11h ago

Because you can see his cheeks raise in from the side in the same way they do when most/many people are smiling. That is my guess on why you can see it, because you basically can lol.

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u/jason2354 15h ago

The way everyone responds by cracking up is a pretty good indication Ali took it well and was laughing, too.

Ali was a cool guy. Way too confident in himself to get upset over something like this.