No
Was this guy some type of hero?
No. Actually, he was an arrogant, egocentric, anti-Christian, anti-American athlete and celebrity.
Therefore, in the eyes of both Left and Right (the Uni-Propaganda-Party), he is to be worshiped.
(Donald Trump, on the other hand, who is also arrogant and egocentric, but is pro-Christian and pro-American, and who is, unlike the puncher of faces, a significant job creator, must be destroyed, according to these same worshipers of Cassius Clay.)