Ezinne, I agree he was The Greatest. I met his challenger, Joe Frazier, when he visited my dad’s office on Lehigh Ave. in Norty Philly. He stopped in to chat with the two nurses, Betty and, oh my, the other name slips my mind. I was just a boy. I remember shaking hands and suddenly he struck a boxers pose, and I’m thinking thinking, just look at those fists!

My dad loved to watch boxing… Archie Moore, Floyd Patterson. I’d watch with him, though I wasn’t really interested until Cassius Clay burst on the scene.

Yes, he’s my hero too, Ezinne, and I think the media got it right this time.