Ali from Rochdale was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when he was 5-years-old. He got interested in boxing when he was 12 and had an impressive amateur career, including winning the Haringey Box Cup in 2013. In case you are wondering, Muhammad Ali is his real name. His parents weren't...
The great irony of Ali's career is that he fought his three greatest fights after his return -- after the exile had diminished him -- beginning when Joe Frazier beat him in their epic battle in 1971. Frazier dropped him in the 15th round with a left hook that traveled north and connect...
If Muhammad Ali was in his time the most famous person in the world, it was as much a tribute to his talent for provocation as to his boxing.
9. “A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.”–Muhammad Ali 10. “Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.”–Muhammad Ali 11. “It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s ...
The Best Of Friends For 35 years, photographer Howard Bingham has traveled the globe, meeting princes and presidents, all thanks to his selfless devotion to a buddy, Muhammad Ali, who happens to be the most famous man in the world.
Three years after that, he won the Amateur Athletic Union's national title. But it wasn't until the 1960 Olympics that Ali -- still an amateur, still known as Cassius Clay -- broke through. In Rome that summer, he beat Poland's Zbigniew Pietryzkowski for the gold medal. The 6-...
Muhammad Ali was a three-time heavyweight boxing champion with an impressive 56-win record. He was also known for his public stance against the Vietnam War.
Nico Ali Walsh, a grandson of Muhammad Ali, won his pro boxing debut Saturday with a first-round TKO of Jordan Weeks.
Ali’s brilliance was his mind. His brains, not his brawn. Back since the earliest days of boxing, experts relied on what they called the “tales of the tape” to predict how successful a given athlete’s boxing career may or may-not be. The “tales of the tape” were a series of...
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