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Muhammad Ali (/ ɑː ˈ l iː /; [2] born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.; January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016) was an American professional boxer and social activist. [a] A global cultural icon, widely known by the epithet "The Greatest", he is frequently cited as the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time.
Brown was one of Ali's speech writers. He wrote certain poems, including that which coined Ali's famous and oft quoted: “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee, rumble, young man, rumble.” Ali used the poem to taunt Sonny Liston at the press conference prior to his February 25, 1964, victory over the WBA and WBC champion to claim both ...
More Than a Hero: Muhammad Ali's Life Lessons Presented Through His Daughter's Eyes, by Hana Ali (2000) Float Like a Butterfly, by Ntozake Shange (author), Edel Rodriguez (illustrator) (2002) I Shook Up the World: The Incredible Life of Muhammad Ali, by Maryum "May May" Ali (2004) Muhammad Ali: Legends in Sports, by Matt Christopher and Glenn ...
Pointing out the flaws only served to make more powerful the image that emerged of Ali as a compassionate figure whose primary goal in his post-boxing career was to affect positive change in the ...
The Greatest: My Own Story is a 1975 autobiography of heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali, who was three times World Heavyweight Champion and has been called the greatest heavyweight from all eras. [ 2 ] It is written in collaboration with Richard Durham and edited by Nobel Prize -winning novelist Toni Morrison . [ 1 ]
Lucien "Sonny" Banks (June 29, 1940 – May 13, 1965) was a mid-20th Century American boxer who is primarily remembered for being the first boxer to ever knock down Cassius Clay (later "Muhammad Ali") in a professional match. In the early 1960s Banks was regarded in the sport as rising prospect known for a lightning fast left hook, but his ...
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In 2019 Men's Health named Ali: A Life the 23rd best sports book of all time. [3] In 2020, Esquire called Ali one of the 35 best sports books ever written. [6] In a review, Joyce Carol Oates of The New York Times noted that "...As Muhammad Ali's life was an epic of a life so Ali: A Life is an epic of a biography."