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Greatness is a label that is bestowed far too routinely across the spectrum of modern day sports, and in so doing the distinction continues to widen between recognizing an epic performer, or an epic performance, from something markedly less. Great performances have a catalyst, springing from powerful individual and team rivalries, individual pride, factors that drive the bar of achievement higher and higher. Ali did not earn his greatness from stopping Sonny Liston , Floyd Patterson or Cleveland Williams. It was the three wars with Joe Frazier that revealed the great heart, that magnificent chin, the champion's will to win.
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