Ali stated, “I am America. I am the part you won’t recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own;
Ali's second title defense came in November 1965, against former two-time heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson. During the build-up to the bout, the normally soft-spoken Patterson earned the new champ's wrath by refusing to call Ali by his Muslim name. At the weigh-in, Ali's glare made ...
Cutman Chuck Bodak trained him for the last four years of his amateur career. BOXING CAREER The science of boxing was taught to Ali by an African American coach named Fred Stoner. Ali learned many things, such as how to move with the grace and ease of a dancer. Despite the fact that...
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.
Muhammad Ali is considered by many to be the greatest boxer of all time. Claybegan his boxing career in Louisville, Kentucky. As an amateur, Clay won two national Golden Gloves titles and two Amateur Athletic Union national titles. In 1960, he won the light heavyweight gold medal in the Ro...
Ali was born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. onJanuary17, 1942, in Louisville, Kentucky, and first took up boxing at age 12 after another kid stole his bike. His amateur career went extremely well, and he dominated any tournaments he entered. ...
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-...
All about Ali This comprehensive two-part documentary on Muhammad Ali focuses almost entirely on his boxing career with extensive footage of his fights from those as an amateur all the way through to his ill-considered final fights when he was clearly past his best. Indeed, just to make the...
Some of the images have become iconic, like one of the 12-year-old Ali, then known as Cassius Clay. McDonogh said, "He was already starting to make a name for himself as an amateur, even though he was just a kid." Others have never been seen before, like one of Ali reading the...
And the “Muhammad Ali” venture is no exception. The first episode covers Ali’s life from 1942-1964 as a young boxer named Cassius Clay rises up the amateur ranks to win gold at the 1960 Olympics, to when he turns professional, discovering the benefits of self-promotion, then beating ...