62 BATTLES OF MUHAMMAD ALI-THE GREATEST

• 62 BATTLES of MUHAMMAD ALI
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• Fighter, philanthropist, joker, magician, religious, orator: Muhammad Ali
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  "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. His hands can't hit what his eyes can't see. Now you see me, now you don't. George thinks he will, but I know he won't”.
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• "Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth."
• "I'm young; I'm handsome; I'm fast. I can't possibly be beat."
• "Don’t count the days; make the days count."
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• “A man who recieved over 30,000 punches
• 4 miles  running every morning
• Stronger liver to deliver
• a personality that transcended his sport
• Faster left and stronger right
• Hit and run technique of the Mongols
• Great scientist in the ring
• talked a lot as if he would talk the talk of a lifetime  in a short span of time
• Equation of Endurance”.
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• Ali is the only boxer to be named The Ring magazine Fighter of the Year six times. He was ranked the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time by Ring Magazine and The Associated Press, and the second greatest pound-for-pound boxer by ESPN.
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• He was also ranked as the greatest athlete of the 20th century by Sports Illustrated, the Sports Personality of the Century by the BBC.
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• During the sparring he left the opponent hit as much as he could as if he is waiting for a great opponent.
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• anticipating elements of rap and hip hop music. As a musician, Ali recorded two spoken word albums and a rhythm and blues song, and received two Grammy Award nominations.
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• Denial of water Daniel of Justice
• Home servant mother who is loving hand painting father who was a drunkard
• 1954 police officer and boxing coach Joe E. Martin-join boxing-amateur boxing trainer Fred Stoner- debut against Ronnie O'Keefe. He won by split decision
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• 1955 murder of Emmett Till, which led to young Clay and a friend's taking out their frustration by vandalizing a local railyard.
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• 1957 met Angelo Dundee
• 1958 Central High School
• 6 Kentucky golden gloves titles
• 2 National Golden gloves title
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• 1960 Rome summer- Olympics light heavyweight champion-
• 5 September 1960 v Zbigniew Pietrzykowski: W-RD5
  In the Rome Olympics light-heavyweight division, before turning professional, Clay beat the Pole to win gold for the USA.
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• gold medal thrown in to Ohio river
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• Life is not given its taken
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• all of his 61 fights as a professional Muhammad Ali entered the ring 61 times after turning professional in 1960. Here’s every fight from Louisville to London and Munich to Manila.
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• 29 October 1960 v Tunney Hunsaker: W-6. In his first professional fight Clay, aged 18, left Hunsaker, the 30-year-old police chief of Fayetteville, West Virginia, bloodied and bowed.
  
  
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• 1960 heard of the Nation of Islam  attended his first Nation of Islam meeting in 1961. He continued to attend meetings, although keeping his involvement hidden from the public.
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• 27 December 1960 v Herb Siler: KO-4. With Angelo Dundee in his corner for the first time Clay saw off Siler, who was also starting his career, at Miami Beach, Florida.
  
• 17 January 1961 v Anthony Esperti: TKO-3. The infamous Miami Beach heavyweight Esperti had not fought in six years and was no match for Clay’s virtuosity.
  
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  7 February 1961 v Jimmy Robinson: KO-1. It took Clay less than 94 seconds to dispatch Robinson, who was a late substitute for Willie Gullatt in this would-be eight-rounder in Miami Beach.
  
• 21 February 1961 v Donnie Fleeman: TKO-7
  The light-heavyweight Fleeman represented a tougher proposition for Clay at Miami Beach, Florida. But Clay came out on top when he won by technical knock-out in the seventh round.
  
  19 April 1961 v LaMar Clark: KO-2
  In his first attempt to predict the round of victory Clay was spot on as he proved too powerful for Clark, the former Inter-Mountain AAU heavyweight champion who had won all of his previous 40 fights by knock-out.
  
  26 June 1961
  v Duke Sabedong: W-10
  A unanimous points win for Clay on his first appearance in Las Vegas, where the promotional antics of the wrestler Gorgeous George Wagner left a lasting impression on him.
  
  22 July 1961 v Alonzo Johnson: W-10
  After a slow start Clay did enough to achieve a unanimous verdict against Johnson.
  
  7 October 1961 v Alex Miteff: TKO-6
  Back in Louisville, Clay was initially troubled by an opponent weighing 22lb more before seeing off Miteff with a flurry of punches.
  
  29 November 1961 v Willi Besmanoff: TKO-7
  Again on home ground against a heavier opponent Clay had too much speed for Besmanoff, cutting him round an eye before putting him down twice in the seventh round.
  
• 1961 met with Gorgeous George Wagner in Las Vegas and that the wrestler inspired him to use wrestling jargon
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• 1962 ,2,10 first flooring during the fight against Sunny bankes victory in 4th
• Practice in photography underwater
• 10 February 1962 v Sonny Banks: TKO-4
  At Madison Square Garden Banks became the first opponent to knock down Clay for a mandatory count. But after that first-round embarrassment Clay was dominant .
  
  28 March 1962
  v Don Warner: TKO-4
  The winner predicted victory in the fifth but was a round early because, he claimed, Warner "wouldn't shake my hand and that made me mad".
  
  23 April 1962
  v George Logan: TKO-4
  In his first fight in LA Clay pummelled Logan, whose corner threw the towel in after four rounds.
  
  19 May 1962 Billy Daniels: TKO-7
  Against another promising hitherto unbeaten heavyweight Clay opened up a nasty cut over Daniels's left eye, eventually causing the referee to stop the fight in New York.
  
  20 July 1962 v Alejandro Lavorante: KO-5
  Predicting a fifth‑round finish against Lavorante in LA, Clay was as good as his word.
  
  15 November 1962 v Archie Moore: TKO-4
  Against the former world light-heavyweight champion, Clay was always in charge and knocked down his former coach three times in the fourth round.
  
  
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• 1962, Clay met Malcolm X, who soon became his spiritual and political mentor.
• Malcolm… Why some people of America are called Negroes when people from Vietnam is called Vietnamese China called Chinese India called Indian German called German English called British it made me a sense and I became a follower of you In fact, Clay was initially refused entry to the Nation of Islam due to his boxing  career.
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• However, after he won the championship from Liston in 1964, the Nation of Islam was more receptive and agreed to publicize his membership. Shortly afterwards on March 6, Elijah Muhammad gave a radio address that Clay would be renamed Muhammad (one who is worthy of praise) Ali (most high). Around that time Ali moved to the south side of Chicago and lived in a series of houses, always near the Nation of Islam's Mosque Maryam or Elijah Muhammad's residence. He stayed in Chicago for about 12 years.
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• Ali's friendship with Malcolm X ended as Malcolm split with the Nation of Islam a couple of weeks after Ali joined, and Ali remained with the Nation of Islam. Ali later said that turning his back on Malcolm was one of the mistakes he regretted most in his life.
  Only a few journalists (most notably Howard Cosell) accepted the new name at that time.
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• 1963 v Charlie Powell: KO-3
  In Pittsburgh Powell, who had previously beaten the No2 ranked heavyweight Nino Valdes of Cuba, was no match for Clay.
  
  1963 v Doug Jones: W-10
  The unanimous verdict has been a source of controversy, with many believing Clay was given a gift decision after 10 arduous rounds.
  
  18 June 1963 v Henry Cooper: TKO-5
  Clay's first visit to London could easily have marked his first defeat. Felled by Cooper's left hook in the fourth round, he staggered to his corner. The infamous torn glove gave Clay extra seconds to recover and a ferocious assault in the fifth left Cooper so badly cut the referee stopped the fight.
  
• Cassius clay versus Henry Cooper, knockout in round four, Victory in 5 ⅓ knock out
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• February 25, 1964 Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston
• Bear trap
• Shooting
• ugly bear Europe 165,000,000 again in next year
• Ali funny in 8 round Sunny shows him two
• A blind man in the ring
• A clown Cowboy turns into a world champion
• 25 February 1964 v Sonny Liston: TKO-7
  In his final fight as Cassius Clay the 22-year-old challenger won the world title for the first time. Clay landed powerful combinations in the sixth round; Liston did not come out for the seventh citing a shoulder injury.
  
• We Shall Overcome Martin Luther King
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• Marriage
• 1964 Ali was introduced to cocktail waitress Sonji Roi by Herbert Muhammad and asked her to marry him after their first date. They were wed approximately one month later on August 14, 1964.
• They quarrelled over Sonji's refusal to adhere to strict Islamic dress and behavior codes, and her questioning of Elijah Muhammad's teachings. According to Ali, "She wouldn't do what she was supposed to do. She wore lipstick; she went into bars; she dressed in clothes that were revealing and didn't look right." The marriage was childless and they divorced on January 10, 1966.
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• Just before the divorce was finalized, Ali sent Sonji a note: "You traded heaven for hell, baby”
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• 1965 v Sonny Liston: KO-1
  Due to the sudden ending of their previous bout, a rematch was ordered by the World Boxing Council. It was – controversially – all over with barely two minutes gone after Ali caught Liston with a fast right and his opponent went down.
  
• 1965 v Floyd Patterson: TKO-12
  This was a grudge match with Patterson determined to regain the title against the young upstart. But Patterson, fighting with a bad back, was down in the fifth round and was taking so much punishment by the 12th that the referee stopped the fight and Ali was pronounced winner.
  1965 Muhammad Ali vs. Floyd Patterson  the rabbit carrot
• First human satellite raferee is waiting to count
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• 1966 v George Chuvalo: W-15
  Chuvalo was a Croation-Canadian heavyweight who was never knocked off his feet in any of his 93 professional matches. Ali won this match, despite Chuvalo going the distance, to retain the title.
  1966 Muhammad Ali slipped  vs. George Chuvalo handsome washer women
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• never knocked out
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• 1966 v Henry Cooper: TKO-6
  In the rematch Cooper's vulnerable eyes again proved pivotal as Ali opened up a serious cut in the sixth and the fight was stopped.
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• 1966 v Brian London: KO-3
  The Hartlepool-born former British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion London was backed into the corner in the third round and succumbed to a salvo of punches.
  
• 1966 v Karl Mildenberger: TKO-12
  The European heavyweight was the first southpaw to fight for the world title but his style made little impression on Ali, who knocked him down three times before the referee intervened in the 12th round to end the punishment.
  
  1966 v Cleveland Williams: TKO-3
  With the Ali shuffle making its debut, Williams failed to land a blow and was dispatched in the third round.
  
  1967 v Ernie Terrell: W-15
  He regained the World Boxing Association title, which had been taken from him for refusing a military induction, with a dominant display against the holder Terrell, who had angered Ali by calling him Cassius Clay.
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• 1967 v Zora Folley: KO-7
  Folley, a respected heavyweight boxer, was past his best by the time he faced Ali and a couple of solid rights in the seventh was all Ali needed.
  
  
  
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• 1967 Ali married Belinda Boyd. After the wedding, changed her name to Khalilah Ali
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• Paying alimony to the old wife fighting  koslSonji Roi legal battle leading in new family life
• Fight of the millennium
• Ali registered for conscription in the United States military on his 18th birthday and was listed as 1-A in 1962.
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• In 1964, he was reclassified as Class 1-Y (fit for service only in times of national emergency) after he failed the U.S. Armed Forces qualifying test because his writing and spelling skills were sub-standard. (He was quoted as saying, "I said I was the greatest, not the smartest!") By early 1966, the army lowered its standards to permit soldiers above the 15th percentile and Ali was again classified as 1-A. This classification meant he was now eligible for the draft and induction into the U.S. Army at a time when the U.S. was involved in the Vietnam War, a war which put him further at odds with the white establishment.
  
  When notified of this status, Ali declared that he would refuse to serve in the army and publicly considered himself a conscientious objector. Ali stated: "War is against the teachings of the Qur'an. I'm not trying to dodge the draft. We are not supposed to take part in no wars unless declared by Allah or The Messenger. We don't take part in Christian wars or wars of any unbelievers." He stated: "Man, I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong."
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• Ali elaborated: "Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?" Ali antagonized the white establishment in 1966 by refusing to be drafted into the U.S. military, citing his religious beliefs and opposition to American involvement in the Vietnam War.
  
  On April 28, 1967, Ali appeared in Houston for his scheduled induction into the U.S. Armed Forces, but he refused three times to step forward when his name was called. An officer warned him that he was committing a felony punishable by five years in prison and a fine of $10,000. Once more, Ali refused to budge when his name was called, and he was arrested. Later that same day, the New York State Athletic Commission suspended his boxing license and stripped him of his title. Other boxing commissions followed suit. Ali remained unble to obtain a license to box in any state for over three years.
  
  At the trial on June 20, 1967, the jury found Ali guilty after only 21 minutes of deliberation of the criminal offence of violating the Selective Service laws by refusing to be drafted.. After a Court of Appeals upheld the conviction, the case was reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1971.
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• 1968 Maryum "May May" born
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• All white people are devils,,, Hero stitch in later and telling that colour has nothing to do but the the mentality there can be white devil that can be blocked over there can be a yellow devils
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  Ali remained free in the years between the Appellate Court decision and the Supreme Court ruling. As public opinion began turning people against the war and the Civil Rights Movement continued to gather momentum, Ali became a popular speaker at colleges and universities across the country; this itinerary was rare if not unprecedented for a prizefighter.
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• At Howard University, for example, he gave his popular "Black Is Best" speech to 4,000 cheering students and community intellectuals, after he was invited to speak by sociology professor Nathan Hare on behalf of the Black Power Committee, a student protest group.
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  1970 Muhammad Ali vs. Rocky Marciano
  
• On June 28, 1971, the Supreme Court of the United States in Clay v. United States overturned Ali's conviction by a unanimous 8–0 decision (Justice Thurgood Marshall recused himself, as he had been the U.S. Solicitor General at the time of Ali's conviction).
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• The decision was not based on, nor did it address, the merits of Ali's claims per se; rather, the Court held that since the appeal board gave no reason for the denial of a conscientious objector exemption to Ali, and that it was therefore impossible to determine which of the three basic tests for conscientious objector status offered in the Justice Department's brief that the appeal board relied on, Ali's conviction must be reversed. U.S. President Donald Trump, apparently unaware of the overturned conviction, said on June 8, 2018 that he might grant a posthumous pardon to Ali.
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• select number of venues, mostly theaters, where viewers paid for tickets to watch the fight live. The use of closed-circuit for boxing telecasts peaked in popularity with Ali in the 1960s and 1970s. Most of Ali's closed-circuit telecasts were handled by his promotion company Main Bout
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  26 October 1970 v Jerry Quarry: TKO-3
  This meeting was Ali’s first fight for 3½ years after his boxing ban for refusing the draft. Following two closely fought rounds, Ali cut Quarry above his left eye, which proved conclusive.
  
  1970 v Oscar Bonavena: TKO-15
  The second bout of his comeback was a tougher affair against the obdurate Bonavena, who absorbed 14 rounds of punishment before being sent to the floor three times in the 15th.
  
  
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• March 8, 1971 Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier (Fight of the Century)
• Eddie Futch (August 9, 1911 – October 10, 2001) was a boxing trainer. Among the fighters he trained are Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Larry Holmes, and Trevor Berbick, four of the five men to defeat Muhammad Ali.8 March 1971 v Joe Frazier: Lost-15
  With both fighters unbeaten something had to give and it was Ali who did so in the final round when Frazier floored him, for only the third time in his career, with a fierce left hook. Ali regained composure but Frazier won the fight on a unanimous decision to end his opponent's 31-fight winning record.
  
  1971 v Jimmy Ellis: TKO-12
  Against his some-time sparring partner Ellis – they had grown up together in Louisville – Ali proved stronger and faster but dragged the match out to the 12th round when he called for the match to be ended, so his friend would not be hurt any more.
  
  
  1971 v Buster Mathis: W-12
  A previous contender for the world title, Mathis came out of retirement to fight Ali. The former champion eventually won on points after knocking Mathis down twice in each of the last two rounds.
  
  1971 v Jürgen Blin: KO-7
  Against the former heavyweight champion of Germany in Zurich, Ali cut Blin over both eyes before catching him with a decisive right in the seventh.
  
  1972 v Mac Foster: W-15
  The first fight held in Asia between two top-10 ranked heavyweights was a dull affair. There were no knock downs for the Tokyo crowd and it ended in a routine points win for Ali.
  
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  1972 v George Chuvalo: W-12
  Despite some ferocious assaults Ali failed to put Chuvalo on the canvas in their second meeting and had to settle for a points win.
  
  1972 v Jerry Quarry: TKO-7
  Now the No1 contender for the world title, Ali comfortably beat the No2 Quarry in their rematch in Las Vegas.
  
  
  1972 v Al ‘Blue’ Lewis: TKO-11
  Another of Ali's sparring partners, Lewis looked down and out in the fifth at Dublin's Croke Park but fought on before the referee put him out of his misery in the penultimate round.
  
  1972 v Floyd Patterson: TKO-7
  In their second meeting, seven years after the first, the two boxers fought for the National American Boxing Federation title at Madison Square Garden. Ali, defending that title for a fourth time, cut Patterson above his left eye in the sixth round and by the end of the seventh it had swollen shut. The referee ended the fight – and soon afterwards Patterson retired.
  
  1972 v Bob Foster: KO-8
  The world light-heavyweight champion, Foster, visited the canvas six times before Ali delivered the knockout blow in the eighth round.
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• 1972 Ali had gone on the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca in 1972, which inspired him in a similar manner to Malcolm X, meeting people of different colors from all over the world giving him a different outlook and greater spiritual awareness. Again in1988.
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• 1973 v Joe Bugner: W-12
  After securing a narrow win over Britain's European heavyweight champion Ali later declared that Bugner could be world champion if he carried on boxing as well as he had.
  
  1973 v Ken Norton: L-12
  For only the second time in his career Ali tasted defeat – and had his jaw broken in the 11th round – The devastating bone crushing punch
• ,as Norton took the National American Boxing Federation title, in the first of their three fights, on a split decision.
  
  1973 v Ken Norton: W-12
  In the first rematch six months later Ali came out on top – also on a split decision – after some furious exchanges between the pair during the fight.punctured right hand
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  1973 v Rudie Lubbers: W-12
  The Dutch champion, Lubbers, absorbed a lot of punishment but Ali could not nail his man. He won on a unanimous decision but his display raised serious doubts about his chances of being able to beat the world champion George Foreman to regain the title. Mohammed Ali versus ken norton ll-punctured right hand
• Against Rudie Lubbers with left hand-outsmarted rudy didn't want to continue the fight.
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  28 January 1974 v Joe Frazier: W-12
  The filling in the sandwich between the Fight of the Century and the Thrilla in Manila hardly whetted the appetite. Ali stayed out of trouble and Frazier failed to get under his arms as he had in the first fight at Madison Square Garden, complaining that Ali was holding in the clinches. Frazier was rocked by a straight right in the second round but neither could land a decisive blow and Ali received a unanimous points verdict.
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• 1974, five days before their second fight, Ali and Frazier had a public altercation captured on television. ABC Sports's Howard Cosell had arranged for the two to come to the studio to comment on their first fight. Things went smoothly until Frazier commented about Ali having to visit a hospital after the fight. Ali immediately responded by claiming he had gone to a hospital for ten minutes whereas Frazier had been hospitalized for three weeks after the fight,[b] and concluded by calling Frazier "ignorant." Frazier then snapped; removing his studio earplug, Frazier reached across to Ali protesting the use of the word "ignorant". Soon the two were wrestling on the floor untilthey were separated by onlookers
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  30 October 1974 v George Foreman: KO-8
  The Rumble in the Jungle ended in pandemonium as Ali, having absorbed the best of Foreman's punches, floored the champion with a left-right combination to regain the world title against the odds.
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• 1975 autobiography
• George foreman against 5 boxers
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• 1975 Muhammad Ali vs. Chuck Wepner TKO-15
  After Ali had easily outfought Wepner in the first eight rounds the title challenger had the temerity to knock Ali down in the ninth. Ali responded devastatingly. He opened cuts above both of Wepner’s eyes and broke his nose before ending the fight shortly before the final bell.
  
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  1975 v Ron Lyle: TKO-11
  In the opening rounds, Ali did not fight aggressively unlike Lyle, instead conserving his energy for later rounds. In the 11th Ali produced a series of punches that Lyle could not cope with, forcing the referee to call a halt.
  
  1975 v Joe Bugner: W-15
  The second fight between the pair was a one-sided affair, although Bugner managed to hold on for the full 15 rounds before Ali was given a unanimous points victory.
  
  1975 Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier III (Thrilla in Manila) TKO-14
  The third and final meeting between Ali and Frazier, The Thrilla in Manila, was fought at full throttle despite high heat. Ali was better in the earlier rounds, whereas Frazier scored higher in the middle rounds. From the 10th onwards Ali dominated and knocked Frazier down in the 14th.
  
  
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• Professional boxing was introduced to pay-per-view home cable television with the "Thrilla in Manila" fight between Ali and Joe Frazier in 1975, which was transmitted through HBO.
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• Beatles reunion plan
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• 1976 inventor Alan Amron and businessman Joel Sacher partnered with Ali to promote The International Committee to Reunite the Beatles. They asked fans worldwide to contribute a dollar each. Ali said the idea was not to use the proceeds for profit, but to establish an international agency to help poor children.
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• 1976 Muhammad Ali vs. Antonio Inoki
• 1976 v Jean Pierre Coopman: KO-5
  Ali's bout against the Belgian boxer is often regarded as a glorified sparring session. It is said that after the fight with Frazier Ali wanted an easy opponent and Coopman duly obliged, being knocked out in the fifth round.
  
  1976 v Jimmy Young: W-15
  By now Ali had become slow and tired, whereas Young displayed pace and stamina to go the whole 15 rounds. But Young also ducked out of the ropes several times to avoid his opponent and at one point the referee called a knock down and started the count. But Ali had too much skill and retained the title on a unanimous decision.
  
  1976 v Richard Dunn: TKO-5
  In Munich Richard Dunn, who had recently won the European title, was out of his depth. He was knocked out three times in the fourth round and dispatched in the fifth. Dunn was the last boxer that Ali knocked out.
  
  1976 v Ken Norton: W-15
  The third meeting between the two was one of the most evenly fought matches in Ali’s career. Far from "knocking the sucker out inside five rounds", Ali was taken the distance at New York's Yankee Stadium. The scorecards were even for both boxers going into the last round but Ali was scored higher by both the judges and the referee for the final three minutes and retained the title.
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  1977 v Alfredo Evangelista: W-15
  Evangelista, a Uruguayan-Spanish boxer, challenged Ali for his title but lost by unanimous decision in the 15th.
  
  1977 v Earnie Shavers: W-15
  The theme to Star Wars accompanied Ali's entrance to the ring at Madison Square Garden for this bout between two boxers seen as past their peak. Ali and Shavers fought ferociously enough to pick off separate rounds, yet in the 15th Ali did enough to secure a unanimous decision.
  
• 1977 By the summer of 1977, his second marriage was over and he had married Porché. At the time of their marriage, they had a baby girl, Hana, and Veronica was pregnant with their second child. Their second daughter, Laila Ali, was born in 1977.
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  15 February 1978 Muhammad Ali vs. Leon Spinks: L-15
  Ali had expected an easy fight against Spinks but was surprisingly outmanoeuvred by his opponent who won on points. It was only Spinks's eighth professional fight, and it was the fastest rise of a boxer to become world heavyweight champion in the sport's history.
  
  15 September 1978 1978 Muhammad Ali vs. Leon Spinks: W-15
  Ali exacted swift revenge on Spinks to regain the title. Ali was always in control at the Superdome in New Orleans, where the 63,350 was the largest indoor attendance for a boxing match, and won a unanimous decision to become the first boxer to win the world title three times.
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• 2 October 1980 Muhammad Ali vs. Holmes (The Last Hurrah)L - TKO - 10
  After a short-lived retirement Ali found himself back in the ring against the new world champion. It was a heartbreaking encounter. Holmes battered the 38-year-old Ali and he lost the match by knock out in the 11th round.1980 Muhammad Ali vs. Holmes (The Last Hurrah) Worldwide 2,000,000,000
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• 1981 v Trevor Berbick: L-10
  The career that began with such a thrilling bang ended in anticlimax against Berbick. After seven quite even rounds, Berbick dominated the last three and ran out the winner on a unanimous verdict.the last fight with Trevor berbick which Laila Ali wanted Ali to lose before the family needed if he won he would I fight again. Actress the first and last of Ali fight Laila Ali watched
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• Retired
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• Lost career and wife
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• 1982 King has been involved in many litigation cases with boxers that were focused on fraud. In 1982 he was sued by Muhammad Ali for underpaying him $1.1 million for a fight with Larry Holmes. King called in an old friend of Ali, Jeremiah Shabazz, and handed him a suitcase containing $50,000 in cash and a letter ending Ali's lawsuit against King. He asked Shabazz to visit Ali (who was in the hospital due to his failing health) and get him to sign the letter and then give Ali the $50,000.
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• Ali signed. The letter even gave King the right to promote any future Ali fights. According to Shabazz, "Ali was ailing by then and mumbling a lot. I guess he needed the money." Shabazz later regretted helping King. Ali's lawyer cried when he learned that Ali had ended the lawsuit without telling him.[
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• 1984 Ali was diagnosed with Parkinson's syndrome
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• 1986 Ali and Porché were divorced.
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• 1986 Ali married Yolanda ("Lonnie"), soulmate, Williams.They had been friends since the new beginning of life.
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• 1964 in Louisville. Together they adopted a son, Asaad Amin, when Amin was five months old
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• 1988, Ali and Frazier joined George Foreman, Larry Holmes, and Ken Norton in Las Vegas for the making of the film Champions Forever.
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• 1996 replacement medal at a basketball intermission during the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, where he lit the torch
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• 2001 After the September 11 attacks in 2001, he stated that "Islam is a religion of peace" and "does not promote terrorism or killing people", and that he was "angry that the world sees a certain group of Islam followers who caused this destruction, but they are not real Muslims. They are racist fanatics who call themselves Muslims".
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• In December 2015, he stated that "True Muslims know that the ruthless violence of so-called Islamic jihadists goes against the very tenets of our religion", that "We as Muslims have to stand up to those who use Islam to advance their own personal agenda", and that "political leaders should use their position to bring understanding about the religion of Islam, and clarify that these misguided murderers have perverted people's views on what Islam really is
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• 2002 Stephen Brunt's 2002 book Facing Ali,
• 2005, Ali converted to Sufi Islam and announced that out of all Islamic sects, he felt most strongly inclined towards Sufism.
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• autobiography, The Soul of a Butterfly.
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• According to Ali's daughter, Hana Yasmeen Ali, who co-authored The Soul of a Butterfly with him, Ali was attracted to Sufism after reading the books of Inayat Khan, which contain Sufi teachings
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• 2008 interview, Frazier stated he had forgiven Ali, but was unable to comment on whether Ali's present condition was due to divine punishment, as he had earlier stated, since "God works in a mysterious way.
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• death on June 3, 2016, in Scottsdale, Arizona
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• This is the index of a novel on Ali in the making by me
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• Round one: The greatest falls
• Childhood
• The bell rang
• Amateur boxer
• Who is white; who is black
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• Round two: A gold for the country, but….
• A rebel marching to glory
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• Round three: Dawood, Goliath and Phantom
• I don't have to be what you want me to be.
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• Round four: Seven Golden years before seven worse
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• Round five: Fight of the millennium
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• Round six: Three white minds in black
• Inspiring speeches, Don't leave any stone unturned
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• Round seven: An unexpected left hook
• Broken jaw and 12 rounds
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• Round eight: Scratches before the Rumble at eightth round
• The Bee and the WASP
• Mesmarising Africa
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• Round nine: Two intimate enemies at scorching heat
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• Round ten: The revenge of a kid
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• Epilogue: Soulmate
• A peaceful spirit
• Demise of an oxidental sufi
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  Muhammad Ali knew he had a job to do on this planet – inspire people.