> On Jun 4, 2016, at 4:27 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>
> I have never seen a boxing match, & never listened to a radio report after
> the Louis-Conn fight of 1945?6? But very luckily I did turn on the readio
> for the 1964 Ali-Liston fight. And thus I was privileged to listen to the
> greatest 5 minutes in radio history.
>
> It was in Ali's dressing room after the fight: he was being besieged by a
> battery of questions from reproters.
>
> Question he refused to respond to until he had forced them all, in unison to
> chant repeatedly: You are the Greatest!
>
> There are no more arrogant persons on earth than sports reporters. What
> glory to hear them humiliated by Ali! Nothing in radio history matches that
> moment.
>
> Carrol
>
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