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It wasn't just Frazier that he attacked verbally. He reacted badly to anyone that wouldn't call him Ali. Floyd Patterson and Ernie Terrell were carried through fights and suffered terrible punishment as he taunted them with..." whats my name, whats my name " He humiliated them and made them...

He was indoctrinated by the Black Muslims. Elijah Muhammad was forever spouting that garbage. Eventually and slowly he started to distance himself from them but only after EM had been discredited and some time after EM had sanctioned the murder of Malcolm X.

Well he did refuse the draft into the US Army and he was well aware of the penalty. In all seriousness, he wouldn't have had to do long and the authorities would have looked at him leniently and allowed him to ' box behind closed doors ' Joe Louis lost his best years to the Second World War, as...

In 1967 he was untouchable and would have reigned as heavyweight champion for many years. He would have beaten the up and coming Frazier and would have retired much earlier than he did. The years of inactivity, after refusing the draft, blunted his edge and forced him into a longer career...

Followed his career from when he was knocking over opponents in the round he was predicting and surviving the near defeat to Henry Cooper, to taking on the most fearsome man on the planet. Liston was the bad man in the eyes of the public, a brutal criminal, controlled by the Mob. Clay knew that...