- Born
- Died
- Birth nameCassius Marcellus Clay
- Nicknames
- The Louisville Lip
- The Greatest
- The People's Champion
- Clay
- Poet Laureate of Boxing
- Height1.91 m
- Muhammad Ali beat more champions and top contenders than any heavyweight champion in history. He defeated heavyweight kings Sonny Liston (twice), Floyd Patterson (twice), Ernie Terrell, Jimmy Ellis, Ken Norton (twice), Joe Frazier (twice), George Foreman and Leon Spinks. He defeated light-heavyweight champs Archie Moore and Bob Foster. Ali defeated European heavyweight champions Henry Cooper, Karl Mildenberger, Jürgen Blin, Joe Bugner, Richard Dunn, Jean-Pierre Coopman and Alfredo Evangelista. He defeated British and Commonwealth king Brian London. All of Ali's defeats were by heavyweight champions: Frazier, Norton, Spinks, Larry Holmes and Trevor Berbick. Ali also beat undefeated fighters Sonny Banks (12-0), Billy Daniels (16-0), 'Rudi Lubbers' (21-0) and George Foreman (40-0).- IMDb mini biography by: angelsunchained (qv's & corrections by A. Nonymous)
- SpousesLonnie Ali(November 19, 1986 - June 3, 2016) (his death, 1 child)Verónica Porche Ali(June 19, 1977 - July 1986) (divorced, 2 children)Khalilah Camacho Ali(August 17, 1967 - December 29, 1976) (divorced, 4 children)Sonji Roi(August 14, 1964 - January 10, 1966) (divorced)
- Children
- Parents
- RelativesRahman Ali(Sibling)Jacob Ali-Wertheimer(Grandchild)Sydney Jurldine Conway(Grandchild)Curtis Muhammad Conway(Grandchild)Biggio Ali Walsh(Grandchild)Nico Ali Walsh(Grandchild)
- Trademark phrase: "Floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee"
- Predicting the round in which his opponents would fall, sometimes even down to the minute
- The Ali Shuffle
- Boastful behaviour
- Extraordinary speed and agility in addition to devastatingly powerful blows
- He first decided to take boxing lessons when neighborhood bullies stole his bike and he wanted to get back at them.
- Legend has it that Ali threw his 1960 Olympic gold medal into the river, when in reality he just simply lost it at some point in time.
- His bout with massive underdog Chuck Wepner inspired Sylvester Stallone to create Rocky Balboa, while the character Apollo Creed (played by Carl Weathers) was based on Ali himself.
- Ali learned early from the outrageous bad-guy wrestler, Gorgeous George, that it could pay to be hated. Ali said "I saw fifteen thousand people coming to see this man get beat, and his talking did it. I said, this is a goo-o-o-d idea!" Then Ali refined that talking concept to what has been referred to as the Louisville Lip.
- Met The Beatles while training to fight Sonny Liston, and posed for photos with them in a boxing ring. Declared afterward that they were the greatest, but he was "still the prettiest".
- Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
- I am an astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Jack Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.
- At home I am a nice guy - but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.
- When you're as great as I am, it's hard to be humble.
- It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
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