Introduction:
Muhammad Ali Clay born with a name of Cassius Marcellus Clay
is one of the greatest heavyweight champs of boxing history; the 191cm height
champ was born in January 17 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky, US.
Boxing:
Boxing is a simple sport that it’s just about two
competitors standing face to face in a ring, but to be a professional you needs
more than these words “simple sport” were you need to master the “sweet
science” that you try to juke your opponents’ hits and hit him back. It started
in ancient Greece were it was an Olympic game until 1867 the Marquees of
Queensberry published rules that boxing took its form like we see it today.
History:
Muhammad Ali won the heavy weight championship three times
on 20 years, 1964, 1974 and 1978 and on 1964 he was called and reigned as the Undisputed
Heavyweight Boxing Champion.
Muhammad was raised on a middle class family, he was
inspired from a Police officer that helped him from a thief that was trying to
take his bicycle from him and the officer said to Clay that he better learn
boxing just for self-defense and for the 4 years of Clays amateur career he was
trained by boxing cutman Chuck Bodak and started when he was on the age of 12
and he won the national golden gloves middleweight championship in 1959 and
1960 and he had his first professional fight on 29 October 1960.
Muhammad started his professional career by defeating Tunney
Hunsaker and other big names with a record of 19 wins and 0 defeats with a 15
wins by knockout. He defeated Toney Esperti, Jim Robinson and other big names
including his former trainer and veteran boxer Archie Moore in 1962.
On each of these fights Clay was belittled his opponents and
vaunted his abilities and this behavior was strange that made most of the
writers dislike him and been hated by the general public.
Clay uncovered that has is a member of the nation of Islam,
and Malcolm (a black Muslim minister) toke him for a tour around the united
nation building and not taking a while until Clay revealed his new name from
Cassius Marcellus to Muhammad Ali and only few of journalists and writers
accepted it at that time.
Achievements
Clay Stormed the world boxing strongly and became scoring
victories, in February 25, 1964 he was able to achieve victory on the boxer Sonny
Liston and was then 22 years old and he
took the world championship heavyweight from him, Reaching after this win ahead
in the world of boxing and draws the attention of many people to him , not just
a American boxer? He was American hero to them, whether they are white or
black, and the victory is something which surprised the world because after the
victory, his decision to declare his conversion to Islam became the second
surprise to the whole world, and this becomes a decision and a greatest
achievement of Clay to change his name to a new name Muhammad Ali and keeping
and saving his last name " Clay “.
In 1967, and after that Clay has achieved many accomplishments
the title was taken from him and fined 10 thousand dollars and stayed three
years in prison , as a result of his refuse to conscription in the United
States Army objection from the war that took place against Vietnam , after
returning back to the boxing ring he fought a very famous match in 1970 and it was against the famous boxer Fraser ,which
was described as a match of the century ,Clay won two out of three rounds, Clay
was able to return his title as a hero to the world heavyweight , and another
victory achieved by Clay in the year 1974, when the defeat of Foreman made him
climb to the top of boxing at the level of the United States of America and the
whole world .
Clay entered many competitions and matches in which achieved
many accomplishments he won the title of champion of the North American Union
for the years 1970 , 1973 , 1974 and became world heavyweight champion in 1964
1967.1978 . Muhammad Ali played 61 games, won 56 and 37 of them are by knockouts,
and he lost only five games.
Politics:
Muhammad Ali got a very distinctive qualities of personality by
his face expressions that makes feel good about this person , humor and spirit
of the family, and amazing speed of agility , intelligence and unrivaled .
While all of these qualities combined in which was controversial, but sometimes
shocking and commenting made him attractive and preoccupation of media.
When asked whether he knew where Vietnam after the fall Ranked in the A1 level of recruitment in the war to give a funny answer: “Yes. It's on TV!" He was most of his times answering the questions on a funny way but he knows how affects people with his honesty, depth and influential words as well. Clay said: "Why would I and those who claim black people have to travel dozens of miles to throw bombs on innocent black people that they did nothing. My battle is here with the one who bother me in Kentucky and prevents me from entering the restaurant or shop because of the color of my skin.” Clay knew the bitterness of human exposure to contempt and racism. When Clay won the gold medal at the Olympics in Italy, the seventeen years old boy returned to his hometown with a lot of joy and entered the restaurant for whites, wearing a gold medal achieved by the United States, the owner refused to give him food. Said to Clay that they do not offer food for Negroes, Clay tried to push him through humor, saying: I do not eat their food. “So he ordered Hamburg but the response was the same, Clay tried again to be nice and humorous but the restaurant owner asked him to get out or will call the police.
At that moment Clay stood in front of a river and threw his
Golden medal that he didn’t even take it from his neck when he was sleeping, at
that moment he started to think of what if a white man was wearing it? Will
this be a valuable thing for people?
So he wasn’t afraid and never ashamed of getting infont of the
media and tell it loud and while he was angry “All white people are bad” and he
insisted by saying it again “yes they are”. These type of political stands of
Muhammad changed a lot of things.
