Ali (then Cassius Clay) created his persona knowingly and from nothing, and his defeat of Sonny Liston marked a turnaround in our culture.
Ali's defeat of Sonny Liston was one for the ages.
The problem is that Kodak really had little evidence to show that it was being frozen out by the Japanese government . There was the retail-stores law, and Kodak produced evidence of state intervention to restrict imports, but it was evidence from the 1960s and 1970s.