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Muhammad Ali was an American professional boxer, widely regarded as one of the greatest and most significant sporting figures in history.
Ali was known as an inspiring, controversial and polarizing figure both inside and outside the ring.
Born Cassius Clay in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1942, and began training when he was 12 years old.
Muhammad Ali became an Olympic gold medalist in 1960 and the world heavyweight boxing champion in 1964.
Clay converted to Islam, changed his slave name to Ali, and gave a message of racial pride for African Americans and resistance to white domination during the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.
In 1966, two years after winning the heavyweight title, Ali further antagonized the white establishment by refusing to be conscripted into the U.S. military, citing his religious beliefs and opposition to American involvement in the Vietnam War.
He was eventually arrested, found guilty of draft evasion charges and stripped of his boxing titles. He successfully appealed in the U.S. Supreme Court, which overturned his conviction in 1971.
Ali remains the only three-time lineal world heavyweight champion; he won the title in 1964, 1974, and 1978. Between February 25, 1964, and September 19, 1964, Ali reigned as the heavyweight boxing champion.
Nicknamed "The Greatest", he was involved in several historic boxing matches.
Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. was born on January 17, 1942, in Louisville, Kentucky. He had a sister and four brothers, including Nathaniel Clay.
He was named for his father, Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr., who himself was named in honor of the 19th-century Republican politician and staunch abolitionist, Cassius Marcellus Clay, also from the state of Kentucky.
He was a descendant of slaves of the antebellum South, and was predominantly of African descent, with Irish and English heritage.
His father painted billboards and signs,and his mother, Odessa O'Grady Clay, was a household domestic.
He was first directed toward boxing by Louisville police officer and boxing coach Joe E. Martin, who encountered the 12-year-old fuming over a thief taking his bicycle.
Clay made his amateur boxing debut in 1954. He won six Kentucky Golden Gloves titles, two national Golden Gloves titles, an Amateur Athletic Union national title, and the Light Heavyweight gold medal in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.
Ali was married four times and had seven daughters and two sons. Ali met his first wife, cocktail waitress Sonji Roi, approximately one month before they married on August 14, 1964.
Roi's objections to certain Muslim customs in regard to dress for women contributed to the breakup of their marriage. They divorced on January 10, 1966.
On August 17, 1967, Ali married Belinda Boyd. After the wedding, she converted to Islam. She changed her name to Khalilah Ali, though she was still called Belinda by old friends and family.
On August 17, 1967, Ali married Belinda Boyd. After the wedding, she converted to Islam. She changed her name to Khalilah Ali, though she was still called Belinda by old friends and family.
Muhammad Ali has died aged 74 on June 3, 2016 , in a Phoenix hospital following a short battle with a respiratory illness.


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