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This story was originally published in the July 1, 2016, issue of Rolling Stone. PEOPLE SCORNED HIM, even reviled him. Some feared him. Even when the young man proved himself to be what he claimed — the fastest, most astonishing boxer we’d ever seen, as well as a black man …

Muhammad Ali called Oct. 26, 1970, his “day of judgment.” His refusal to be inducted to the Army during the Vietnam War, on moral and religious grounds, had pushed him out of the ring for 43 months. But that night in Atlanta, his boxing license restored, he faced “The Great …