Along with the braggadocio of his boasts and rhymes, Cassius Clay brought a balletic elegance to the boxing ring. "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee," was how he described his moves. Muhammad Ali's simultaneous defiance of gravity and convention, coupled with his invisible right and left hooks and relentless taunts gave credence to his claim, "I Am The Greatest!" On his Columbia Records album, Cassius Clay laid out, in graphic detail, a blow-by-blow description of his future bout with Sonny Liston. The album climaxed with "Round 8: The Knockout." In this photographic portrait, by Hank Parker, of Cassius Clay in formal black tails in August 1963, the future champ holds out a defiant and prescient 8 fingers, a reminder to the world that "knockout n 8" rhymes with "I Am The Greatest!"

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