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The world knew the man who climbed into the ring with heavyweight champion Sonny Liston as the cocky and loose-lipped boxer Cassius Clay

The world knew the man who climbed into the ring with heavyweight champion Sonny Liston as the cocky and loose-lipped boxer Cassius Clay. At the end of the fight, he left the ring as champion of the world and soon after renamed himself Muhammad Ali. Jim Axelrod has a report on Ali's first chance at greatness and how he came out on top of the sports world.

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