I was lucky enough to have crossed paths with The Greatest about 10 years ago on NYE in the hotel bar lobby of the Beverly Wilshire. I was the only one standing there and he walked past me accompanied by his wife and a nurse and I’ll never forget 2 things; 1~ his shoulders were huge! Even with his illness he still looked like he could have wrestled a bear and won. 2~ he had a a glow or aura exuding from him, it was like an orange fuzz all over his body unlike anything I’d ever seen before. I didn’t even realise it was him until I saw his face. The word hero is thrown around a lot these days but he was the embodiment of that word, a true warrior for humanity.