[BenLurkin]

Frazier became world champion while Gaseous Cassius was suspended from boxing for refusing to accept his call-up to serve in the Vietnam War like tens of thousands of other Americans.

[Reily]

The reality would have been that he would have never served in Vietnam combat or even run-of-the-mill support deployment. He would have been given “Elvis like” duty. Still not exactly fair to the “normal Joe’s” that went but much more acceptable then his actions. It was all about money, he was at the top of his career, his peak earning potential, a service hitch would have cost him & his entourage money.

[Hot Tabasco]

call-up to serve in the Vietnam War like tens of thousands of other Americans.

It's a tough call. Knowing what they know now and how that was a Democrat war destined to be lost at the cost of 55,000 Americans, do you think they would have served let alone enlisted like I and thousands of others did?

For the college punks who dodged the draft and fled to Canada, I have no respect and hope to hell they stay there.

As for Ali, at least he did it for his religious beliefs, despite his religion being in conflict with mine, and was willing to suffer and pay the consequences......