Talk:Muhammad Ali

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== Won 33 World Heavyweight Championship fights ==

In his professional achievements we can find 3 bouts where he conquered Heavyweight title (against Sonny Liston in 1964, against George Foreman in 1974 and Leon Spinks in 1978). And according to the data in here (this site), in the WBA and WBC champions' information we can find that in his 3 times as champ Ali defended succesfully his titles 30 times, that makes a total of 33 won fights for the World Heavyweight Championship. (The bout against Ernie Terrell in 1967 to regained the WBA belt that Muhammad was stripped in 1965 is including in that 33)

== Cassius X ==

On the boxing record page, there is a BIG error in fact noted about Ali's change of name after the first Sonny Liston bout. Ali first announced his name changed as Cassius X, not Muhammad X. A couple of weeks later, he announced to the world that he'd "now forever be known as Muhammad Ali -- Muhammad means worthy of praise and Ali mean most high," the champ said to a band of boxingscribes. This information is easily found in umpteen bios and autobios of the GOAT. One can go to "The Muhammad Ali Story" at Youtube and hear Ali said that in video footage of that time.

== The Super Fight ==

This was the original super fight of the century: encyclopediasupreme.org/Rocky/AliVsRocky.pdf

The Super Fight - Ali vs. Marciano

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[[File:70Feb.jpg|left||250px|thumb|The Super Fight - Ali vs. Marciano]]
''The Super Fight'' was a computerized film bout between [[Muhammad Ali]] and [[Rocky Marciano]] using an NCR-315 computer. ''The Super Fight'' was shown around the world in theaters on January 20, 1970 and later broadcast on ABC (1970) and CBS (1977). The event was produced by Murry Woroner, who also produced an all-time computer heavyweight tournament that was broadcast on radio in 1967.

''The Super Fight'' was subject in the 2006 film [[Rocky Balboa]], in which a computer simulated bout matched Rocky in his prime versus the current world heavyweight champion, which led to a real bout between the current champion and Rocky past his prime.

== Newspaper Articles ==

*[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MKhVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9OADAAAAIBAJ&pg=5176%2C4475078 AP, January 21, 1970]
*[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xepOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3ksDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6973%2C1144495 UPI, January 21, 1970]
*[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=TwJYAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HPcDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4619%2C3819143 UPI, January 20, 1970]
*[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hxEcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=UlAEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1959,1632760&hl=en The Pittsburgh Press, January 20, 1970]
*[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rn4hAAAAIBAJ&sjid=RIsFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1756,196384&hl=en The Milwaukee Journal, January 21, 1970]
*[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ZC9mAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1YoNAAAAIBAJ&pg=6452,1956523&hl=en The Sun, January 21, 1970]

== External Links ==

*[http://encyclopediasupreme.org/pdf/AliVsRocky.pdf Photo Standalone, Aftermath Of The Fight]
*[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065050/ The Super Fight - Marciano vs. Ali (1970) IMDb]
*[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,878682,00.html Time Magazine, January 19, 1970]
*[http://www.docstoc.com/docs/34577271/Boxing-Simulation-All-Time-Heavyweight-Champion-Part-1-History Boxing Simulation All-Time Heavyweight Champion Part 8 Ali v. Marciano, reproduced from The People's Almanac]
*[http://www.fightsaga.com/Videos/item/689-Marciano-vs-Ali-Staged-Computer-Fight Fight Saga, Marciano vs Ali Staged Computer Fight, by Leroy Cleveland, May 23, 2011]
[[Category:Cinema|The Super Fight - Ali vs. Marciano]]
*[http://www.e-sports.com/articles/470/1/Murray-Woroner-A-Pioneer-with-a-dream/Page1.html Murray Woroner: A Pioneer with a dream!]

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