"The biggest misconception about Muhammad Ali is that everybody loved him," explains ESPN's Howard Bryant, who is featured in the film. He told CNN Sport, "One of the greatest misconceptions about Ali is that White people loved him from the start. He soon changed his name to Cassius X, and would later change it again to Muhammad Ali and joined The Nation of Islam. "He'd been Muhammad Ali for ten years, [but] they still called him Clay," Howard Bryant told CNN. "Even the people who disliked him the most at some level had to admit Vietnam was a failure," Bryant told CNN Sport.

Source: CNN September 17, 2021 08:03 UTC