Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. – Samuel Butler
By Scoop Malinowski
When Muhammad Ali challenged George Foreman for the World Heavyweight Championship in Zaire, Africa in 1974 the local Africans were so adoring of Ali and unfairly hateful of Foreman, they sang and chanted memorably “Ali Bomaye! Ali Bomaye!” Which was translated to mean “Ali Kill Him!
Today it’s clear the tennis establishment has a comparable disdain and resentment of Novak Djokovic. From stealing his ATP rankings points to relentless media smear campaigns to unlawfully kicking him out of competing at the Australian to even possibly manipulating stadium fans to boo and hiss Djokovic at tournaments to blemish is public image, it’s more than obvious the tennis establishment would like nothing more than to destroy Novak Djokovic and remove him from the top of the sport as soon as possible.
It’s been suspected and speculated a former regime of the tennis establishment backstabbed Monica Seles out of the sport in an inside job, as speculated by Don Budge, to reinstall Steffi Graf back to the top of the sport. And it very well may be happening again to Novak Djokovic who is, as of now, powerless to overcome all the “deep state” dark forces working against him.
Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in the 8th round to win the title and effectively remove Foreman from the throne and high profile position as the “face of the sport.” Foreman’s career crashed after that as he was not granted a rematch with Ali and he later lost a unanimous decision to Jimmy Young in Puerto Rico and then exited the sport. Foreman found religion and became a preacher and then returned to boxing a decade later with a reinvented image and personality. Foreman astonishingly became the oldest man to win the World Heavyweight Title by knocking out champ Michael Moorer in 1994 at age 44, two decades after he was beaten by Ali.
He became a global icon and TV and advertising goldmine, at one point the star of his own TV show, salesman of millions of George Foreman hamburger grills and millions of dollars in prizefighting earnings.
Now only a fool would deny that Novak Djokovic, now 35, is being systematically removed from the top of pro tennis, however he is a very intelligent, cunning, clever, ferocious, strong minded, strong willed human being who, it is safe to assume, will not go down easily without a fight. And he can draw inspiration from the example of boxing great George Foreman.
