His Greatest Moments Came In the Life He Led Outside of the Ring Muhammad Ali was as confident in the public circle as he was in the boxing ring, and he continued to meet every challenge with a mind that was as powerful as his fists. As a black man living in an era that continued to question his rights as a person, Ali faced and battled issues of race and class, and to this day ranks as one of the champions of the Civil Rights movement. His conversion to Islam, and his subsequent refusal to be inducted into the military, created the largest controversy of his life and he was stripped of his world heavyweight boxing title. Not surprisingly, this adversity only made Muhammad the boxer stronger, prouder, and more determined than ever to live his life with dignity and by his own conviction. And while it may have looked to some that the count was nearing ten and the final bell was about to ring. Muhammad Ali emerged from this battle with chin high, hands raised, and years later he would be selected the greatest athlete of modern times. Muhammad Ali emerged from this battle with chin held high, hands raised, and years later would be selected the greatest athlete of modern times. He would continue his traipse towards boxing and, ultimately, social dominance in the coming years of his life. He Faced Several of The Greatest Boxing Fighters of The 1960's and 1970'sMuhammad Ali professional career began with a victory over Tunney Hunsaker on 29th October 1960, which would end some twenty one years later with a loss to Trevor Berbick on 11th December 1981, only his fifth loss in more than two decades of professional boxing. Inspired by the toughest of challenges, Muhammad Ali stood in the ring to face the great fighters of the land in the 60's and 70's and for the most part leaving the ring in triumph of his foes. Muhammad Ali would go on to become the first heavyweight, boxer in the history of boxing to win the world heavyweight championship boxing title three times by utilising his deadly combinations of blinding speed, awe-inspiring power, wits and intelligence. As his speed slowed with age, he developed astuteness and cunning that was to became his foremost weapons in the boxing ring arena. Watching Ali on the TV performing his magic in the ring was a near indescribable experience, with the combination of brute force and beautiful choreography exhibited by Muhammad Ali created a visual indelibleness in the crevice of our minds. Revered as an hero, he is a man that is the testament of humanity. Muhammad Ali: The greatest that ever was, and the greatest that will ever be. Muhammad Ali Era of Boxing Thrills Are Over, But Is Never ForgottenMuhammad Ali, the poet, his burst of literary creation means only one thing. Muhammad Ali's selling a fight, and in this case, it's the 24th September date with the World Heavyweight Champion George Foreman in the central African nation of Zaire. We gonna rumble in the jungle; Said Muhammad Ali. Boxing Rumbles are seldom this big. More than 100,000 paying customers are expected to show up at 3 a.m. in the morning that's 10 p.m. in New York City in a rebuilt soccer stadium in the Zaire capital of Kinshasa. The fight will be seen world wide on closed circuit television with the help of six orbiting satellite transmitters. I'm so big. Muhammad Ali says with gleaming eyes; it takes six satellites to do my TV shows, and two billion people, all over the world, will be conscious of this fight in the jungle. Ali quipped to the reporters: Do you realise how many people that is? This time he was wrong in his calculations, when he said: It is 20 hundred million people! Think about it. We could put 100,000 new faces in that stadium every night. Imagine that! 100,000 new faces every night for 170 years. "If Ali Says A Mosquito Can Pull A Plow, Don't Ask How. Hitch Him Up."They didn't approved of his behaviour pattern of shouting out: I am the Greatest. They didn't approved of him changing his Christian slave name from Cassius Clay to the Muslim name of Muhammad Ali I don't want to be what you want me to be. They didn't approved of his ability to compose rhymes and lyrics off the cuff. maybe that qualifies him as the first ever rapper They did not approved when he said that: "If Ali says a mosquito can pull a plow, don't ask how. Hitch him up." They didn't approved when he said at a press conference of sullen reporters: "Why ain't you taking notice?" and "why ain't you laughing?" They didn't approved. when he said, he could float like a butterfly and sting like a bee. At the time when he was known as Cassius Clay he won the 1960 Olympics light heavyweight championship held in Rome, no one thought much of his boxing skills, experts condemned his style of boxing. Rather than slip a punch or bob and weave in the traditional defensive manner of boxing, it was his habit to sway back while bending at the waist. They didn't believe it when Ali became the Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World! |
The First Time a Girl Kissed Him, He FaintedHis triumph in the ring over George Foreman in Zaire Africa created an Explosive Earth Shattering Shock Wave Around the World. Muhammad Ali was blessed with an engaging combination of sweet innocence, cockiness, and naivety. One of Ali's girlfriend, revealed that the first time they kissed, he just fainted. No other athlete in the world came close to Ali when it comes to transcending the height of glamour and glory of sports champions the way Muhammad Ali could. A man of grace, even under fire, a man of great confidence laced with a tinge of cockiness, a man who showed the world what it meant to him facing up to his own convictions, a man with pride and dignity, a man that stood up for his rights in the face of adversity. Muhammad Ali was not only the greatest sports figure who ever lived. Indeed, he is the greatest champion of world populace. | |
