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...With reporting by Peta Owens-Liston/Salt Lake City
...been a fan of boxer Muhammad Ali's ever since I watched him defeat Sonny Liston on closed-circuit TV in 1964. Still, the compliments by essayist Stanley Crouch in your coverage of the new film Ali [CINEMA, Dec. 24] were, to put it gently, excessive. The closing paragraph is but one example: "Everything he did was big, when he was right, when he was wrong, when he embarrassed us, when he inspired us. That finally is why he remains a king of the world." Gracious! My guess is that Ali would get a chuckle when reading such nonsense. RICHARD...
Considered laughable when challenging "the big ugly bear" Sonny Liston for the heavyweight championship in 1964, Ali turned out to be as surprising as the troops who wore rags on their feet and followed George Washington to take down the British Empire and turn the world upside down...
...only did he take the belt from Liston, he regained his championship by defeating George Foreman in Zaire despite an earlier 3 1/2-year absence from the ring. In Manila in 1975, he and the magnificently noble Joe Frazier fought the greatest heavyweight fight of all time, 14 rounds of explosive leather, pure will and muscle until Frazier's eyes swelled closed and he could not meet the bell...
...Emily C. Ferguson, John N. Friedman, Peter W. Graham, Jennifer H. Hepps, Michael A. Hill, Robert S. Hill, Susie Y. Huang, Cendri A. C. Hutcherson, Sahir S. Islam, Derek J. Kaufman, Vera Keller, Yuni Kim, David D. Kornhaber, Timothy B. Lautz, Jonathan L. Lee, Janice M. Leung, Conor M. Liston, Rochelle P. Lundy, Catherine A. Marlantes, Nicole M. Martin, Deirdre A. Mask, Philip J. Matchett, Ethan M. Merlin, Sarah E. Moss, Alec J. Nevala-Lee, Emily N. Ogden, Joshua L. Passman, Parag A. Pathak, Devon R. Quasha, Katherine E. Sharaf, Timothy F. Sohn, Pauline Tsai, Brooke J. Wagner, Silas...