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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, FEB. 23, 2014 AND THEREAFTER - FILE - In this Feb. 18, 1966 file photo, heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali sits with neighbors in Miami. During a news conference at his home, he said he was very bitter about his reclassification to 1-A by his Louisville, Ky. draft board. (AP Photo/Toby Massey)

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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, FEB. 23, 2014 AND THEREAFTER - FILE - In this April 28, 1967 file photo, heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali is escorted from the Armed Forces Examining and Entrance Station in Houston by Lt. Col. J. Edwin McKee, commandant of the station, after Ali refused Army induction. Ali says he was a conscientious objector who would not serve in the Army of a country that treated members of his race as second-class citizens. (AP Photo)

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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, FEB. 23, 2014 AND THEREAFTER - FILE - In this March 29, 1966 file photo, reporters surround Muhammad Ali at Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens after he won a unanimous decision over Canadian George Chuvalo. (AP Photo)

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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, FEB. 23, 2014 AND THEREAFTER - FILE - In this March 17, 1966 file photo, heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali arrives at a Veterans Administration office in Louisville, Ky. to appeal his 1A draft classification. Behind him wearing a hat is his attorney, Edward Jocko of New York. "I ain't got no quarrel with those Viet Cong," he said, setting off on a path that cost him more than three years of his career and nearly put him in prison. Ali became a symbolic, if unlikely, figure of the anti-war movement, though his mind was always more on resuming his career than furthering the cause. (AP Photo/GS)

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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, FEB. 23, 2014 AND THEREAFTER - FILE - In this March 29, 1967 file photo, heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali, left, and Dr. Martin Luther King speak with reporters in Louisville, Ky. King says the sooner this country does away with the draft, the better off we'll be. Ali was here for his court hearing to prevent his Army induction on April 28 in Houston. (AP Photo)

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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, FEB. 23, 2014 AND THEREAFTER - FILE - In this March 1, 1964 file photo, Muhammad Ali, world heavyweight boxing champion, right, stands with Malcolm X outside the Trans-Lux Newsreel Theater on Broadway at 49th Street in New York. They had just watched a screening of films on Ali's Feb. 25, 1964 title fight with Sonny Liston in Miami Beach. (AP Photo)

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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, FEB. 23, 2014 AND THEREAFTER - FILE - In this March 10, 1967 file photo, basketball star Wilt Chamberlain extends a long left towards world heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali at an ABC television studio in New York. Chamberlain is 7 feet, 1 inch tall, and Ali is 6 feet, 2 inches with Chamberlain's reach over 90 inches against Ali's 79 inches. (AP Photo)

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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, FEB. 23, 2014 AND THEREAFTER - FILE - In this Sept. 10, 1974 file photo, a Zairian man in traditional clothing carries a spear as he leads Muhammad Ali through a crowd at the airport in Kinshasa, Zaire. Ali arrived in a chartered Air Zaire plane from Paris for a world championship fight with George Foreman. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)

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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, FEB. 23, 2014 AND THEREAFTER - FILE - In this Sept. 29, 1975 file photo, Muhammad Ali, world heavyweight boxing champion, looks at himself in a mirror during a training session in Manila, Philippines before his Oct. 1 fight against Joe Frazier. (AP Photo)

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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, FEB. 23, 2014 AND THEREAFTER - FILE - In this May 25, 1965 file photo, heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali stands over fallen challenger Sonny Liston, shortly after dropping Liston with a short hard right to the jaw in Lewiston, Maine. In 1964 he dropped the name Cassius Clay and adopted his Muslim name. (AP Photo/John Rooney)