It's been a full weekend now since the passing of Muhammad Ali and yet with each day I have managed to come across another story or two every few hours that exemplify the measure of a man who, through a body of work, truly did earn the title "the greatest." No man is flawless and Ali certainly wasn't either, but his sheer dominance inside the ring, his gift of gab, his rap, before we knew what the word meant, was only a small part of what made him an icon. Unquestionably original. Unflappably confident. Ali rode hard for the things he believed in even when they weren't popular. He never backed down weather it was going against his own government when refusing to fight in Vietnam or poking the giant bear of a man that was George Forman, long before George was selling grills and his face alone meant menace. It's impossible to do Ali justice with words, I think only he, himself, could properly pay homage but his good friend Jim Brown said it simply and said it well: quote "Ali was the most important sports figure in history."
A look back at the man they called "the greatest"
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