After being stripped of his license to box for refusing to be inducted into the Army based on his religious beliefs, the Greatest finds himself in a dreamlike locker room being prepared for a fight while the crowd outside cheers his name.
He remembers going to bed, tired after a long day of training, and he remembers noises in the night, the rush of cool air over his bared body, but he doesn’t recall how he got here; wherever here may be.

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  1. “In His Prime” by K. C. Ball, in Every Day Fiction, October 2010.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by K. C. Ball