Boxing great’s daughter says new Ken Burns documentary for PBS will show how he coped with fame – and used it for social purposes
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In February 1964 Muhammad Ali, then 22-year-old Cassius Clay of Louisville, Kentucky, proclaimed for the first time “I am the greatest” before snatching, from Sonny Liston, the first of his three world heavyweight
boxing titles.
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