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Years after supplying Ali with the prop of a bag of acorns when he fought Earnie Shavers (who was known as The Acorn), a man recalls how, years later, Muhammad Ali remembered him. He recounts the tale to Nuala McGovern on the day of the Islamic prayer service in Louisville, Kentucky, that marked the death of Muhammad Ali.

Image: Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali), two weeks after he won his first world heavyweight title. Credit: Harry Benson/Getty Images