Ali's wins in the boxing ring won him fans and adulation, but what cemented his position as one of the most respected ...

So who was the original Cassius Clay? The simple answer is that he was a prominent abolitionist politician in the mid-1800s. He served in the Kentucky House of Representatives and was appointed ...

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A crestfallen Sonny Liston had no intention of coming out for round seven. The heavyweight champion of the world had been outsmarted, outmaneuvered, outpunched and outclassed. In the other corner ...

Cassius Clay won the world heavyweight championship. Shortly after that, he changed his name. What was the name he selected?

The driven, charismatic young athlete lived up to his claim to be "The Greatest" Muhammad Ali's story took on moral complexity three years into his reign as champion. Norman Mailer wrote in 1975 ...

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