RIP Boxer Muhammad Ali: There Never Has, And Never Will Be, An Athlete Like Him

By M H AHSSAN | INNLIVE

He was the best. The greatest. The brashest. The boldest. There was nobody like Muhammad Ali when he exploded on the boxing scene to become the world heavyweight champion at 22 with an ego to match. He was calling himself "The Greatest" even before fighting for the title. There has been nobody like him since.

Ali was a true original. He wasn't the next branch in the evolutionary boxing tree. He was sui generis; his own kind. Unique. He was a big man but moved with the grace of a ballroom dancer in the ring. And he was beautiful. "A splendidly plumed bird who wrote on the wind a singular kind of poetry of the body" as Mark Kram once put in forSports Illustrated.