Billionaire Anthony Pratt remembers eagerly asking boxing legend Muhammad Ali some advice about fighting.
Pratt and the three-time heavyweight champion of the world had struck up a friendship during the late 1990s, when the now executive chairman of cardboard box and recycling giant Visy had employed Ali in an ambassadorial role and twice brought him to Australia.
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It was also about the time Pratt’s late father, Richard, had famously hit Carlton footballer ‘Percy’ Jones with a well-timed right hook after the pair had argued outside a function, earning the Carlton benefactor some notoriety.
“I described this to Muhammad and then asked him what advice he would have for me should I ever get into a fight, ” the younger Pratt told The Australian Financial Review from New York on Sunday. “He looked at me and simply said, ‘Run’.”
Read the full story at AFR, by John Stensholt
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