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What lesson needs to be learned from Chuck Liddell’s trilogy fight with Tito Ortiz

It was 37 years ago when Muhammad Ali, arguably the biggest sports star of all-time, stepped into the boxing ring for the final time as a competitor against Trevor Berbick.

It was sad watching “The Greatest” fighting to survive against an opponent who he would have clowned years earlier.

Ali was one year removed from taking a horrible beating at the hands of Larry Holmes in a championship match, and was already showing signs of the vocal stuttering and hand trembling that would be a part of the rest of his life.

Those two fights that never should have been allowed to take place.