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What Muhammad Ali taught me about anger, which Joseph Nkaissery needs to learn

Before the action movie heroes of my youth such as Bud Spencer, Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, Van Damme, Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, there was Muhammad Ali. The real life heavyweight champion of the world. My older brother John was an amateur boxer and Ali was his icon, so I grew up in the shadow of Ali’s outsized legacy. He was the reason I wanted to learn how to throw a decent punch.

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