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2. Muhammad Ali
| He was too many things to too many people to be pinned down for history. Was he an entertainer, a fighter of supernatural guile, a political activist, a martyr? "Here's what he really was," says George Foreman, who lost to him in one of boxing's most fabled fights. "He was brave. I'd hit him -- hit him hard -- and he'd just keep at me. Nobody'd ever done that before. He'd come ready to die! Now what are you going to do with a guy like that?" |
Photograph by James Drake
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