Muhammad ali religion

Muhammad ali record
Muhammad ali death
How old was muhammad ali when he died

•

Ali, Muhammad

Muhammad Ali, 1967, World Journal Tribune photo, by Ira Rosenberg

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Ali, Muhammad (17 January 1942–3 June 2016), heavyweight boxing champion and war protester, was born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. in Louisville, Kentucky, the elder of two sons of Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr., who painted signs and billboards for Black-owned businesses and Bible murals for churches, and Odessa Lee Grady Clay, who cooked and cleaned for white households. The younger Clay’s great-grandfather John Henry Clay was enslaved by Henry Clay, a U.S. senator from Kentucky who called for the resettlement of enslaved people to Africa. Cassius Clay Sr. was named for the senator’s cousin, the white abolitionist Cassius Marcellus Clay.

Cassius Clay Jr. grew up in a small two-bedroom house in the West End, a Black district of the segregated city, where residents included Pullman porters, teachers, mechanics, and shopkeepers. While prizefighters typically came from impoverished backgrounds, Clay’s family was middle cla

•

THE STORY OF MUHAMMAD ALI

Muhammad Ali was one of the most influential athletes in American history, a three-time heavyweight boxing champion who fought as well with his mouth and mind.

Ali called himself “The Greatest,” and many agreed. Among boxers, he certainly ranked among the elite, having won the heavyweight title three times in his 21-year career. But it was his life outside the ring that inspired the strongest adjectives. He was the prettiest, the brashest, the baddest, the fastest, the loudest, the rashest.

He openly attacked American racism at a time when the nation’s black athletes and celebrities were expected to acquiesce, to thank the white power structure that gave them the opportunity to earn wealth and celebrity, and to otherwise keep their mouths shut. Ali’s mouth was seldom shut. He joined the Nation of Islam at a time when the FBI and many journalists labeled the Muslim group a dangerous cult bent on destroying America. He challenged the legitimacy of the Vietnam War and refused to enlist in the military at a time when few prominent Americans wer

•

Boxing career of Muhammad Ali

Overview of Muhammad Ali's boxing career

Muhammad Ali was a boxer who mastered the rope-a-dope fighting technique. He is widely regarded by many boxing commentators and historians as the greatest heavyweightboxer of all time. Boxing magazine The Ring named him number one in a 1998 ranking of greatest heavyweights from all eras.^[3] In 1999, The Associated Press voted Ali the number one heavyweight of the 20th century.^[4] In 1999, Ali was named the second greatest boxer in the history of combat sports, pound for pound by ESPN. He was only behind the welterweight and middleweight legend Sugar Ray Robinson.^[5] In December 2007, ESPN placed Ali second in its choice of the greatest heavyweights of all time, behind Joe Louis.^[6] He was inducted in the International Boxing Hall of Fame in the inaugural class of 1990.^[7]

Early career

Clay made his professional debut on October 29, 1960, winning a six-round decision over Tunney Hunsaker. From then until the end of 1963, Clay amassed