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On the night in 1964 that Muhammad Ali stepped into the ring with Sonny Liston, he was widely regarded as an irritating freak who danced and talked way too much Six rounds later Ali was not only the new world heavyweight boxing champion he was 'a new kind of black man' who would shortly transform America's racial politics, its popular culture, and its notions of heroism