I met him 3 times in the 70’s, at the height of his career. He fought Bugner in KL, where I was living, on my 9th birthday. I got to meet both of them in their respective camps, and spent a couple of evenings with Ali’s family. Then I saw him by chance a couple of years later in Bombay airport and crawled through a huge crowd on my hands and knees to get his autograph on a napkin.