I get you don't like him. Personally, I hated his mouthyness and I disagreed with a lot of his positions. But I admire his integrity in standing up for what he believed and paying the price by the rules, and I believe he was a very great actual fighter, despite his games. So portraying a joke match as summing him up is a mean spirited misrepresentation of what he legitimately earned in the sport, IMO.
I remember how he dodged the draft. It was something like this.
He is drafted, refused to go, is thrown in jail.
Goes to jail as Cassius Clay, is visited by Elijah Mohamed and converts to black islam. Comes out of jail as Mohamed Ali and is suddenly a “teacher” of islam, an IMAN!
Uses his claim as an Iman to declare himself a “consiencious objector”. Now who ever heard of a moslem iman who did not LOVE going to war and kill people!
The US news media immediately began a rehabilitation of his record portraying him as a beloved sports figure.
Did he go to work in a hospital as other objectors did? NO! A Medic? NO!
His case goes to the supreme court, loaded with pinko leftists and WINS in his favor.
It was said by sports writers at that time, that if he HAD allowed himself to be drafted, he would not be sent to Vietnam but would have stayed stateside and used for boxing demo purposes and Public Relations.