Universal Champ
Ali would reclaim the WBA version of the Heavyweight Championship from Ernie Terrell in 1967. After one successful defense as the universal World Heavyweight Champion, Ali was stripped of his titles for refusing to enlist when drafted later that year, being a conscientious objector from the Vietnam War.
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“The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.”
—Giambattista Vico (1688–1744)