To the greatest sporting legend of the 20th century

“Probably the best punch of the whole fight…was never landed. Muhammad Ali, as I was going down, stumbling, trying to hold myself. He saw me stumbling. Ordinarily, you finish a fighter off. I would have. He got ready to throw the right hand and he didn’t do it. That’s what made him — in my mind — the greatest fighter I ever fought.”

The year was 1974. Th…