Muhammad Ali

2008-01-03T14:40:30Z

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''"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee"''
[[file:Ali.muhammad.jpg|left|frame|AP Photo]]
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'''Trainer''': [[Angelo Dundee]] 
'''Manager''': [[Herbert Muhammad]]
 

==Career Review==
* Considered one of the greatest heavyweights of all time.
* Won the Light Heavyweight Gold Medal for the United States at the 1960 [[Olympics]] in Rome, Italy.
* National AAU Light Heavyweight champion in 1959 and 1960.
* Named the worst boxer in history.
* Named [[Boxing Writers Association of America Fighter of the Year]] for 1965, 1974 and 1975.
* Won the Boxing Writers' Association of America [[James J. Walker Memorial Award]] for 1984.
* Proclaimed the "Fighter of the Decade" (1970s) by [[The Ring Magazine|''The Ring'']] magazine
* Ali was so popular that when he lost his first fight with [[Joe Frazier]], his loss indirectly led to four deaths. During the bout itself in New York, two spectators died of heart attacks. In Malaysia, Abdul Ghani Bachik was reported to have leaped up from his chair while watching the fight on paid television and shouted, " My God, Cassius Clay has fallen!" He then suffered a fatal heart attack. In Milan, Italy, Erio Borghisiani was found dead in front of his television, hours after viewing the fight on paid television.

==Reference sources==

* [http://www.ali.com/ Official website]

* ''[http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1659947 Ali, the fighting prophet]'' / Gilbert Odd with a foreword by Henry Cooper (1975, ISBN 0720708451)
* ''[http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2057974 Black is best: the riddle of Cassius Clay]'' / Jack Olsen (1967)
* ''[http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2489745 Cassius Clay: a biography]'' / Jack Olsen (1967)
* ''[http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn3019601 Cassius Clay ante el racismo]'' / Jose Laurino (1969)
* ''[http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2494526 Le champion]'' / Robert Gurik (c1977, ISBN 0776100653)
* ''[http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2194423 Facing Ali : the opposition weighs in]'' / Stephen Brunt (2002, ISBN 0676973507)
* ''[http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn331046 The fight]'' / Norman Mailer (1975 - 1st edition, ISBN 0316544167)
* ''[http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2978330 The fight]'' / Norman Mailer (1976, ISBN 0246109505)
* ''[http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn244559 The greatest: my own story]'' / Muhammad Ali with Richard Durham (c1975 - 1st edition, ISBN 0394462688)
* ''[http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1119292 The greatest: my own story]'' / Muhammad Ali with Richard Durham (1976, ISBN 0246109440)
* ''[http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2865330 I'm the greatest: the wit and humour of Muhammad Ali]'' / cartoons by Roy Ullyett and Jon (1975, ISBN 0856321427 and 0856321494 (pbk))
* ''[http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn94569 King of the world: Muhammad Ali and the rise of an American hero]'' / David Remnick (c1998, ISBN 0375500650)
* ''[http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1218886 Men of destiny: the story of Muhammad Ali, formerly Cassius Clay]'' / John Cottrell (1967)
* ''[http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1333950 Muhammad Ali: his fights in the ring]'' / Robert Walker (1979, ISBN 017005571X)
* ''[http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2786653 Muhammad Ali retrospective]'' / Henry James Korn (1976, ISBN 0909331146)
* ''[http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn314318 Muhammad Ali's greatest fight: Cassius Clay vs. the United States of America]'' / Howard Bingham and Max Wallace (c2000, ISBN 0871319004)
* ''[http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1974435 Redemption song: Muhammad Ali and the spirit of the sixties]'' / Mike Marqusee (1999, ISBN 185984717X)
* ''[http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1015301 Sting like a bee: the Muhammad Ali story]'' (1971, ISBN 0200718401)
* ''[http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1103339 Sting like a bee: the Muhammad Ali story]'' / Jose Torres and Bert Randolph Sugar (2002, ISBN 0074712004)

* ''[http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn310852 Black superman]'' / words and music by Johnny Wakelin (c1974) - ''"A tribute to the black superman Muhammad Ali"''
* ''[http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn3120384 In Zaire]'' / words and music by Johnny Wakelin (c1976)

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title=[[World Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Joe Frazier]]|
years=25 Feb 1964–29 Apr 1967 Stripped
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title=[[WBA Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Ernie Terrell]]|
years=25 Feb 1964–19 June 1964 Stripped
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title=[[WBA Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Jimmy Ellis]]|
years=6 Feb 1967–29 Apr 1967 Stripped
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before=[[George Foreman]]|
title=[[World Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Leon Spinks]]|
years=30 Oct 1974–15 Feb 1978
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{{Succession box|
before=[[Leon Spinks]]|
title=[[WBA Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[John Tate]]|
years=15 Sep 1978–27 Apr 1979 Retired
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