Boxing After Ali

The death of Muhammad Ali proved that an event need not be surprising in order to be shocking. Sombre statements arrived from all sorts of people who loved him, and it wasn’t just his friends who seemed to feel, somehow, that he loved them, too. One of the most widely quoted tributes came from President Barack Obama, whose remarks combined praise (Ali was “a man who fought for what was right”) with gentle criticism (he “could be careless with his words”), and arrived at a fittingly grand conclusion: “Muhammad Ali shook up the world.”

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