Hot! Muhammad Ali

Name: Muhammad Ali Alias:The GreatestBirth Name:Cassius Marcellus ClayBorn:1942-01-17Birthplace:Louisville, Kentucky, USANationality:US AmericanHometown:Louisville, Kentucky, USAStance:OrthodoxHeight:6 several / 191cmReach:78 / 198cmBoxing Record:clickTrainer:Angelo DundeeManager:Herbert Muhammad

Amateur Achievements

Six-time Kentucky State Golden Gloves Champion

1959 Chicago Golden Gloves Tournament connected with Champions Light Heavyweight Champion vs. Jeff Davis

1959 Intercity Golden Gloves Light Heavyweight Champion vs.

1960 Chicago Golden Gloves Tournament involving Champions Heavyweight Champion vs. Jimmy Jones

1960 Intercity Golden Gloves Heavyweight Champion vs. Gary Jawish

1959 National AAU Light Heavyweight Champion vs. Johnny Powell

1960 National AAU Light Heavyweight Champion vs. Jeff Davis

1960 Olympic Light Heavyweight Gold Medalist inside Rome, Italy. Olympic results:

(Belgium) TKO 2

Gennadi Schatkov (USSR) W3

(Australia) W3

(Poland) W3

Amateur Record

There possess already been many recreational records certified to Muhammad Ali . 100-5, 127-5, 134-7, 137-7, along with 99-8 tend to be one of the claims.

Professional Achievements

The very first and only three-time lineal World Heavyweight Champion

Won twenty-two World Heavyweight Championship arguements and built 19 flourishing defenses

First heavyweight to unify titles (vs. Ernie Terrel 1967-02-06 succeeding by UD)

First heavyweith Champion around ever coming back from your cease working as well as get back to the title

First black boxer retired seeing that champion (twice with 1967 as well as 1979)

Acting Career

Appeared in the amount of shows and television set shows. IMDb credits:

Awards and Recognition

Named pertaining to 1963, 1972, 1974, 1975 and 1978

Named Boxing Writers Association involving America Fighter of the Year with regard to 1965, 1974 and 1975

Proclaimed "Fighter belonging to the Decade" (1970s) by

Won the particular Boxing Writers' Association of America James J. Walker Memorial Award intended for 1984

Named the maximum heavyweight connected with all-time by simply in 1998

Named the best heavyweight with the twentieth millennium through the Associated Press

Named "Athlete belonging to the Century" through GQ magazine

Named "Sportsman from the 20 th Century" by way of Sports Illustrated

Named "Sports Personality on the Century" from the BBC

Inducted to the Florida Boxing Hall of Fame with 2010

Factoids

Muhammad Ali is the sibling of fellow boxer Laila Ali , and the uncle regarding Ibn Ali .

Ali's initial fight together with Joe Frazier not directly took three deaths. During the particular onslaught once more in New York, two spectators died with coronary heart attacks. In Malaysia, Abdul Ghani Bachik was announced to help include leaped up from his massage chair while viewing the actual struggle about given television plus shouted, "My God, Cassius Clay features fallen!" He next encountered a new fatal soul attack. In Milan, Italy, Erio Borghisiani has been located inactive ahead of his tv set only time following taking a look at your attack with given television.

Legacy

A 1974 World Boxing viewer poll graded Ali since the fifth biggest heavyweight within history, historian Nat Loubet positioned him because the 9th ideal heavyweight of all-time with 1975, plus John Durant, author associated with The Heavyweight Champions, sitting your ex as being the 4th finest heavyweight with all-time throughout 1976. BBC Sports, original WBA us president Bill Brennan, The Ring editor-in-chief Nigel Collins, former Boxing Illustrated editor-in-chief Herbert G. Goldman, Showtime commentator Steve Farhood, along with historian Arthur Harris almost all consider Ali to become the maximum heavyweight connected with all-time.

Reference Sources

Official website

Cassius Clay AKA Muhammad Ali 's Amateur Boxing Record in Question? / Ken Hissner (2010)

Ali, your fighting prophet / Gilbert Odd which has a foreword by means of Henry Cooper (1975, ISBN 0720708451 )

Black will be best: the secret question connected with Cassius Clay / Jack Olsen (1967)

Cassius Clay: a biography / Jack Olsen (1967)

Cassius Clay initial ante el racismo / Jose Laurino (1969)

Le champion / Robert Gurik (c1977, ISBN 0776100653 )

Facing Ali : the particular competitors weighs around / Stephen Brunt (2002, ISBN 0676973507 )

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King with the world: Muhammad Ali and the go up of your American hero / David Remnick (c1998, ISBN 0375500650 )

Men regarding destiny: the storyplot of Muhammad Ali, formerly Cassius Clay / John Cottrell (1967)

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Black superman / terms and tunes by Johnny Wakelin (c1974) - "A tribute on the black superman Muhammad Ali"

In Zaire / terms in addition to tunes by means of Johnny Wakelin (c1976)