Muhammad Ali

Adrian Lorente

Author: Bernard Smith

Genre: Biography

Date Started: 3-12-2010

Date Finished: 7-12-2010

Name: Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay).

Nickname: The Greatest, the Champ.

Nationality: North American.

Birth date: 1942 (age 68).

Boxing record:

- Amateur: Gold Medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, in the light heavyweight.

- Professional: Three times heavyweight champion.

Muhammad Ali is considered one of the greatest heavyweight championship boxers of all time. As an amateur, he won a gold medal in the light heavyweight division at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.

Later, as professional, he was the first boxer to win the lineal heavyweight championship three times. The first time was versus Sonny Liston in 1964 in New Orleans, Louisiana, the second was versus George Foreman in 1974 in Kinshasa, Zaire, and the third was versus Leon Spinks in 1978 in Miami Beach, Florida.

He also went on to be a big fighter against the differences between black and white American people and he always fought for peace.

Originally he was known as Cassius Clay. He changed his name to Muhammad Ali in 1964, as a symbol of his fight against the social differences between black and white American people and he converted to Islam for the same reason.

After, in 1967, when he refused to be inducted into the U.S. military, based on his religious beliefs and opposition to the Vietnam War, he wasn’t imprisoned, but he didn’t fight again for four years.

His political fight, his big personality and a different fighting technique, made him a cultural icon.

In 1981, he lost his last fight versus Trevor Berbick. After that, he was a sick, and he retired.

Now he lives quietly with his family. He continues working for peace in the world

I recommended this book, because it explains with easy words the exciting life of Muhammad Ali, a big person with a big fight.