Today, Muhammad Ali was laid to rest in Louisville, Kentucky, and an unreal amount of celebrities and dignitaries showed up to pay their respect to the Greatest.
His good, good friend, comedian Billy Crystal, delivered an utterly outstanding eulogy that both sympathized immensely with the loss of the boxing great, yet still revved the crowd up into fits of laughter thinking back on Ali’s life and times.
Here’s the entire thing (roughly 15 minutes of fucking fantastic nostalgia and storytelling).
“I was clean-shaven when this started…”
You never want to, but when you have to, this is how you funeral. Fondly remembering the good times, and all the great things that came of someone’s life.
In Muhammad Ali’s case, those great things compose books upon books upon books. But today, Billy Crystal did an amazing job of summarizing some of the Greatest’s best times in a mere few minutes. Mazel tov to that.
[via Ring Magazine]