Muhammad Ali: the Fix and One of the Greats

It is one of the great sporting images of our time and it comes from a fixed fight. Muhammad Ali has shuffled off to the great boxing heaven in the sky.  He was a fighter who set the world alight with his skills, politics and charisma.  In the glowing hagiographies that will come out let us remember a few things about him. First, Mohammad Ali could be a through jerk. Ali's treatment one of the other great boxers of his era...

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