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Men With Mojo Video Profile on Muhammad Ali: #6


or in January 17 1942 in Louisville
Kentucky was Cassius Marcellus clay jr.
he went on to change his name to
Muhammad Ali after you won his first
professional heavyweight championship at
age 12 play began fighting in the
amateur ranks and in 1960 of the limpets
in Rome and the 175 pound division he
won the gold medal in auto over the same
year Clay won his first professional
boxing match he went on to win his Nets
18 matches 15 by knockout februari of
1964 play was set to fight against Sonny
Liston the heavyweight champion at the
time even though clay was the underdog
of the effort of oxy match he completely
trashed shock Liston he’s saying he was
gonna win saying he’s gonna kill him all
the normal bought since of you here but
this prediction came true to the shock
of many bots and fans from around the
world Kassius playin fat did beat Sonny
Liston that day in Miami Beach play was
always an extremely controversial person
only two days after waiting the
Heavyweight Championship from Sonny
Liston he converted to the Nation of
Islam and changed his name to Muhammad
Ali in the 1960s this was such a
controversial move that many newspapers
refused to accept this and would not
print Muhammad Ali as his name Ali was
involved in more controversy in 1967
when drafted to fight in a US war he
refused and at first he was divin
conscientious objector status however
after he stated he wasn’t against all
wars and would participate in an Islamic
holy war they revoked this status and he
was fined ten thousand dollars in
sentenced to five years in prison they
took away his heavyweight title they
took away his license to bots it wasn’t
until four years later that the US
Supreme Court changed this decision
because of procedural grounds in 1970 I
leben and Watson professionally dedenne
and while he’d lost a lot of his agility
he still continued to beat a lot of
boxers it wasn’t until several years
later where he got himself into a
heavyweight title fight again after
years of working his way closer to a
heavyweight title it finally in 1974 he
got a chance to fight george foreman
heavy
champion this fight was called rumble in
the jungle and took place in Zaire in
the eighth round Ali knocked out Foreman
and regained for the second time the
heavyweight championship now Ali was
such a great fighter he always talked a
lot of trash but the thin was he always
backed it up
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