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"&lt;a href=\"http://www.tmz.com/videos/0_sc6twlrn\"&gt;&lt;img src=\"http://ll-media.tmz.com/2011/10/04/1004-chubby-checker-video-ex-credit.jpg\" alt=\"Chubby Checker\" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;\"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee\" ... \"I am the greatest\" ... \"Joe Frazier is a gorilla\" -- &lt;strong&gt;Chubby Checker&lt;/strong&gt; says he's the inspiration behind &lt;strong&gt;Muhammad Ali&lt;/strong&gt;'s historic trash talk ... and without him, Ali would be a nobody.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chubby was celebrating his 70th birthday at his good friend &lt;strong&gt;Zsa Zsa Gabor&lt;/strong&gt;'s house in L.A. on Monday -- telling us, back when Muhammad Ali was &lt;strong&gt;Cassius Clay&lt;/strong&gt;, the young boxer asked Chubby how to get people to notice him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At that moment, Chubby says he gave Clay what would become the secret to the boxer's fame -- a big mouth. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to Chubby, he instructed Clay to get as loud and cocky as possible whenever he could -- both inside and outside the ring -- and before long, Clay became known for his trademark hubris.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Talk about a butterfly effect. Chubby says Ali still hasn't thanked him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- relatedlinks --&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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