Muhammad Ali told his trainer that fighting Joe Frazier in the Philippines was ‘the closest I've ever been to dying’ (Getty) Some 9,000 miles away in Vero Beach, Florida, it was still the evening of ...

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Augsburg, West Germany, May 1976: Muhammad Ali arrives at Sheridan Barracks. Ali had beaten Richard Dunn in a fight at Munich a few days earlier.

There has never been anybody in the history of boxing quite like Muhammad Ali. To earn nicknames like “The Greatest” and “The People’s Champion”, you have to be something special, and Ali was.