Muhammad Ali is seen outside a Miami steakhouse in 1972. Photographer Danny Lyon spent three days with the boxer for an assignment that year. Danny Lyon/Magnum Photos Ali horses around with a child on a street corner in Miami Beach, Florida. He was in town to train for his second fight against Jerry Quarry. Danny Lyon/Magnum Photos Ali trains for the Quarry fight. Five years earlier, he had been stripped of his boxing titles for refusing to enter the U.S. armed forces. Danny Lyon/Magnum Photos Ali shadowboxes at dawn. Danny Lyon/Magnum Photos Ali sits with young fans in the gym while listening to his trainer, Angelo Dundee. Danny Lyon/Magnum Photos Ali sits with a child at a restaurant counter. Danny Lyon/Magnum Photos "There was not a mark on (Ali's) face, by the way," Lyon recalled. "I mean, he had a face like a baby, this guy. There wasn't a cut or nothing on it." Danny Lyon/Magnum Photos Ali cools down after running at dawn. In the car is Bundini Brown, his longtime friend and cornerman. Danny Lyon/Magnum Photos "There was an amazing kind of humility to this guy," Lyon said. "I can't quite explain it." Danny Lyon/Magnum Photos Prev Next
