Unbelievable he put that medal around that piece of poop draft dodgers neck. Shameful...
Well, it's not like Muhammed Ali was some little beeotch who ran away because he was too scared to fight. After all, his job was getting punched in the head repeatedly by people like George Foreman.

His not going to Vietnam was on principle, and he paid for it with what probably would have been the best years of his career. If, despite his opposition to the war, he'd entered the military and let them use him as a poster-boy in Life magazine, than that would have been shameful.

Hell, even President Johnson was telling people privately that the war wasn't winnable, so what was really the point of anybody going over there? If the answer to that is "when your country tells you to go, you go"... well, you either go or you are prepared to accept the consequences of your actions, which he was.