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Laila Amaria Ali (born December 30, 1977) is an American television personality and retired professional boxer who competed from 1999 to 2007. During her career, from which she retired undefeated, she held the WBC , WIBA , IWBF and IBA female super middleweight titles, and the IWBF light heavyweight title.
The cast includes Elisabeth Moss, Ron Perlman, Naomi Watts, Jim Gaffigan, Michael Rapaport, Pooch Hall, Morgan Spector, Jason Jones and Catherine Corcoran. The film depicts the life of heavyweight boxer Chuck Wepner and his 1975 title fight with the heavyweight champion, Muhammad Ali , which inspired Sylvester Stallone 's character and ...
Mickey Rourke as a down-and-out boxer who risks death in the ring. Kaboria: 1990 Drama A young man dreams of representing his country in boxing at the Olympics but fails to achieve his goal. However, he establishes boxing rings to promote the sport. Rocky V: 1990 Drama A bankrupt Balboa trains up-and-coming heavyweight (real-life boxer Tommy ...
Ali and then-WBA heavyweight champion boxer Ernie Terrell had agreed to meet for a bout in Chicago on March 29, 1966 (the WBA, one of two boxing associations, had stripped Ali of his title following his signing a rematch with Liston) [29] but in February Ali was reclassified by the Louisville draft board as 1-A from 1-Y, and he indicated that ...
Million Dollar Baby is a 2004 American sports drama film.It is directed, co-produced, scored by and starring Clint Eastwood from a screenplay written by Paul Haggis, based on stories from the 2000 collection Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner by F.X. Toole, the pen name of fight manager and cutman Jerry Boyd.
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.
Alfred Rudolph Cole (born April 21, 1964), best known as Al Cole, is an American former professional boxer. He won the IBF cruiserweight title and was a major force in the division until moving up to heavyweight, where he had less success. In 2001, Cole portrayed boxer Ernie Terrell in the film Ali. [1]
Muhammad Ali: Through the Eyes of the World, by Mark Collings (2001) Ghosts of Manila, by Mark Kram (2002) Lucky Man: A Memoir, by Michael J. Fox (2002) Muhammad Ali: Trickster Celebrity in the Culture of Irony, by Charles Lemert (2003) The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey, by Muhammad Ali and Hana Ali (2004)