Muhammad Ali's First Meeting With Sonny Liston

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Muhammad Ali had two different characters. The first one is the one most people will remember when they hear about Ali’s name. He was loud, rude, and angry. Before fights Ali would start talking about the his opponents and what he’s going to do to them. He called them same name that made his opponents very angry. Before his first meeting with Sonny Liston Ali went to Sonny’s house and calling coward, and he was too scared to fight Ali. How did this affect him? The only way this had effect on his life was that it gave him a his first world heavyweight champion match with Sonny Liston. At the time Sonny was the world heavyweight champion and he didn’t want to fight young boy who had a big mouth. However this changed after Ali called him out on

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