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Winning Changes Everything

 

Liston went to his corner, and when the bell sounded for the seventh round, Liston stayed on his stool...Clay suddenly realized what had happened, leapt up, and danced around the ring, yelling, "I am the greatest in the world! I am the king of the world!"

In a few days fight fan's reactions turned from stunned to stupified, as Cassius Clay announced that he was renouncing his "slave name," and the new name given him by the black Muslims to which he now belonged was Muhammed Ali. I was confused by the name change.

 

 Busby, Mark. Cedar Crossing. Fort Worth: TCU Press, 2013. 62. Print.