‘Money is good if you can make it in an honest and clean way,” Muhammad Ali told reporters in Tokyo, en route to Malaysia in June 1975.
A reporter had asked the Greatest, the nickname the world heavyweight champion had given himself more than a decade earlier, what money meant to him. The question was prompted by an unusual turn of events: A spokesman for Japan’s most famous wrestler, Antonio Inoki, had elbowed his way up front to deliver, in halting English, an ominous threat — Inoki can make you sleep in ten minutes — and a letter demanding a match.
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