To win the undisputed heavy weight championship of the world used to be regarded as the richest prize in sport( I know another guy has 1 belt)
To beat a champion who was undefeated in 11 years deserves a lot of credit.
It reminds me a lot of the anti Murray stuff because he jokingly said he...
Cassius Clay was not popular early on in his career with his extreme Islamic views, and refusing to be drafted in the USA army to serve in Vietnam.
His famous comment ' no Vietcong ever called me a ******'
He ended up being sports personality of the century.