In 1964, four years into his professional career, he gained global fame by defeating Charles “Sonny” Liston for the title of heavyweight champion of the world. But his career took a hit in 1967, when Ali refused to be drafted into the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, citing religiou...
Muhammad Ali picks up his grandson Michael Alford, 5, before the start of the premier showing of "Twice Born," in New York Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2000. The NBC documentary offers a look into the life and career of Ali through the prism of the 1960 Rome Olympics, where he won the light...
Muhammad Ali’s professional boxing career was in large part funded thanks to a Kentucky whiskey distillery.
The Muhammad Ali Sports Humanitarian Award is given to an athlete whose continuous, demonstrated leadership has created a measured positive impact on their community through sports. The candidate must embrace the core principals that Muhammad Ali embodied so well, including confidence, conviction, d...
Muhammad Ali Accomplishments 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 heavywe...
Muhammad Aliis being remembered not just for his legendary boxing career and his inspiring public persona, but also for the dignity and grace with which he battled Parkinson's disease over the last three decades of his life. He was first diagnosed with the degenerative disease in the 1984, th...
Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recognized as the Father of Pakistan. Learn about his early life, legal career, politics, and quotations.
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 point, as the...
At 22-years-old, Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) battered the heavily favored Sonny Liston in a bout that shook the boxing world. The fight ignited the career of one of sports' most charismatic and controversial figures, whose bouts often became social and political events rather than simply sports...
When Muhammad Ali had strong feelings about a subject, the world would know it. This also carried through to his fighting career and his famous pre-fight verbal exchanges with his opponents. He used his gift of intuition to understand complex meanings and human relationships to his advantage by...