Light as a butterfly and stinging as a bee. Black, and proud to be black. Bold, ironic, provoking. Modern, aware of his own strength. The greatest, then as now.

Ali died at seventy-four. He had been ill for a long time with Parkinson's disease, which did not stop him in his last and painful years from showing himself so differently from before. He was a marvel, in the ring and outside it. This volume is a tribute to the great champion, one of the icons of the last century.