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"To demonstrate I am great, he will land in eight." - Muhammad Ali A lot of printer ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential numbers, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees and shrubs? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get swept up to accelerate on the lives of America's most significant women and men in the time it takes to complete a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. The sports activities world has never experienced a scarcity of self-promoters, but nothing have ever strolled the walk and supported the converse like Muhammad Ali, boxing's ideal icon and possibly history's most famous athlete. Indeed, even referring to Ali equally a boxer will a disservice to the transcendent figure he is becoming about the world as a living legend. Of course, the star of Ali begins in the squared group, where a young, brash child named Cassius Clay increased to the most notable of the boxing world with a method so unorthodox that other people attempting it could basically assure he'd get knocked out. But Ali became the heavyweight champ by keeping his hands low, "floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee", and outboxing heavyweight champions like Sonny Liston, Joe Frazier, George Foreman, and Floyd Patterson. In his early years, Muhammad Ali truly was the best, and he could only be ended by the Vietnam Battle, when his refusal to get into the military led to his arrest and the stripping of his name. Ali also lost three years of his fighting with each other prime before time for the diamond ring, but his most iconic fights were still before him, including the "The Thrilla in Manilla" and "The Rumble in the Jungle".
