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- challenged champion
- Sonny Liston for the heavy-
- weight title on February
- 25, 1964. Muhammad was
- the underdog, but he
- attracted attention by teasing Sonny and
- making up poems about what he would do
- to him in the ring.
-
- At 6' 3" and 215 pounds, Muhammad was
- big and strong, but he also had lightning fast
- hands and amazingly quick feet for a man
- his size. (One of his cornermen once
- described MuhammadΓÇÖs style by saying that
- the boxer could ΓÇ£Float like a butterfly, sting
- like a bee.") Against Sonny Liston,
- Muhammad danced around the ring
- and dared his opponent to hit him.