Muhammad Ali: The Man Behind the Myth

Decades after his final fight, heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali remains larger than life in the imagination of hundreds of millions of people around the world. “No one had ever heard an athlete speak—let alone brag. He said things that we’d never heard: ’I’m beautiful. I’m pretty.’ We never heard men who looked like him say and boast about those things,“ says boxer George Foreman. In researching his acclaimed book Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times, author Thomas Hauser got closer to Ali than any previous biographer. Hauser weaves together Ali’s own words and the stories of hundreds of family members, friends, rivals, and others who interacted with Ali over the years. The result reveals a deeply spiritual, courageous, and complex man, who forever changed our conception of what makes a champion. Watch Hauser, Foreman, and Ali’s daughter Hana discuss the legacy of “The Greatest,“ then explore the enhanced ebook edition of Muhammad