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Date Posted: 02:17:10 07/22/12 Sun
Author: Conscientious Objector Jack White Ireland 17/1/2011
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Muhammad Ali==wk 29==Voday 9/5==42

Muhammad Ali
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"Cassius Clay" redirects here. For the 19th-century politician and abolitionist, see Cassius Marcellus Clay (politician).
This article is about the American boxer. For other people named Muhammad Ali, see Muhammad Ali (disambiguation).
Muhammad Ali

Ali in 1967
Statistics
Nickname(s) The Greatest
The People's Champion
The Louisville Lip
Rated at Heavyweight
Height 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Reach 80 in (203 cm)
Nationality American
Born (1942-01-17) January 17, 1942 (age 70)
Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.
Stance Orthodox
Boxing record
Total fights 61
Wins 56
Wins by KO 37
Losses 5
Draws 0
No contests 0
Medal record[hide]Men's boxing
Competitor for the USA
Summer Olympics
Gold 1960 Rome Light heavyweight

Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.; January 17, 1942) is an American former professional boxer,[1] philanthropist[2] and social activist.[2] Considered a cultural icon, Ali was both idolized and vilified.[3][4]

Originally known as Cassius Clay, Ali changed his name after joining the Nation of Islam in 1964, subsequently converting to Sunni Islam in 1975, and more recently practicing Sufism.[unreliable source?][5] In 1967, three years after Ali had won the World Heavyweight Championship, he was publicly vilified for his refusal to be conscripted into the U.S. military, based on his religious beliefs and opposition to the Vietnam War. Ali stated, "I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong... No Viet Cong ever called me nigger" – one of the more telling remarks of the era.[6]

Widespread protests against the Vietnam War had not yet begun, but with that one phrase, Ali articulated the reason to oppose the war for a generation of young Americans, and his words served as a touchstone for the racial and antiwar upheavals that would rock the 1960s. Ali's example inspired Martin Luther King Jr. – who had been reluctant to alienate the Johnson Administration and its support of the civil rights agenda – to voice his own opposition to the war for the first time.[7]

Ali was eventually arrested and found guilty on draft evasion charges; he was stripped of his boxing title, and his boxing license was suspended. He was not imprisoned, but did not fight again for nearly four years while his appeal worked its way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, where it was eventually successful.

Ali would go on to become the first and only three-time lineal World Heavyweight Champion.

Nicknamed "The Greatest," Ali was involved in several historic boxing matches.[8] Notable among these were three with rival Joe Frazier, which are considered among the greatest in boxing history, and one with George Foreman, where he finally regained his stripped titles seven years later. Ali was well known for his unorthodox fighting style, which he described as "float[ing] like a butterfly, sting[ing] like a bee", and employing techniques such as the Ali Shuffle and the rope-a-dope.[9] Ali brought beauty and grace to the most uncompromising of sports and through the wonderful excesses of skill and character, he became the most famous athlete in the world.[10] He was also known for his pre-match hype, where he would "trash talk" opponents, often with rhymes.

In 1999, Ali was crowned "Sportsman of the Century" by Sports Illustrated and "Sports Personality of the Century" by the BBC.[11][12]

Contents [hide]
1 Biography
1.1 Amateur career and Olympic gold
1.2 Early professional career
1.3 First title fight and aftermath
1.3.1 Ali vs. Liston I & II
1.3.2 Ali vs. Patterson I
1.3.3 Ali vs. Terrell
1.4 Conversion to the Nation of Islam
1.5 Vietnam War
1.5.1 Quotes about Vietnam war
1.6 Return to Boxing
1.6.1 The Fight of the Century
1.6.2 Ali vs. Norton I & II
1.6.3 Ali vs. Frazier II
1.6.4 The Rumble in the Jungle
1.6.5 The Thrilla in Manila
1.7 Late Career and Retirement
1.7.1 Ali vs. Norton III
1.7.2 Ali vs. Spinks I & II
1.7.3 Ali vs. Holmes
1.8 Ali's legacy
1.9 In retirement
2 Ranking in heavyweight history
3 Personal life
4 In the media and popular culture
5 The Muhammad Ali Effect
6 Professional boxing record
7 See also
8 Notes
9 References
10 External links

BiographyAmateur career and Olympic goldCassius Marcellus Clay, Jr., was born on January 17, 1942, in Louisville, Kentucky.[13] The older of two boys, he was named after his father, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Sr., who was named after the 19th century abolitionist and politician of the same name. His father painted billboards and signs,[13] and his mother, Odessa O'Grady Clay, was a household domestic. Although Cassius Sr. was a Methodist, he allowed Odessa to bring up both Cassius and his younger brother Rudolph "Rudy" Clay (later renamed Rahman Ali) as Baptists.[14] He is a descendant of pre-Civil War era American slaves in the American South, and is predominantly of African-American descent, with some Irish ancestry.[15]

Clay was first directed toward boxing by the white Louisville police officer and boxing coach Joe E. Martin,[16] who encountered the 12-year-old fuming over a thief taking his bicycle. He told the officer he was going to "whup" the thief. The officer told him he better learn how to box first.[17] For the last four years of Clay's amateur career he was trained by legendary boxing cutman Chuck Bodak.[18]

Clay won six Kentucky Golden Gloves titles, two national Golden Gloves titles, an Amateur Athletic Union National Title, and the Light Heavyweight gold medal in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.[19][20] Clay's amateur record was 100 wins with five losses.

Ali states in his 1975 autobiography that he threw his Olympic gold medal into the Ohio River after being refused service at a 'whites-only' restaurant, and fighting with a white gang.[21] Whether this is true is still debated, although he was given a replacement medal at a basketball intermission during the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, where he lit the torch to start the games.

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