Boxing Legend; Muhammad Ali now 70

Muhammad Ali, boxing legend of all time and arguably the greatest sportsman of all time has celebrated his 70th birthday with his family and friends alike in his hometown of Louisville in the united States of America.
Ali shook up the world as he was a heavyweight boxer of breathtaking skill and speed whose feats in the ring, and outspoken support for black rights made him the most influential sportsman of the 20th century.
In a 21-year ring career, the self-proclaimed "Greatest" achieved what no heavyweight had done before by regaining the world title more than 10 years after he first held it. He was also the first man to win one of sport's greatest trophies three times.
Muhammad Ali's influence cuts across boxing as his refusal to serve in the United States Army which earned a ban from boxing in the late 1960's made him the world's most recognisable man.
Born Cassius Marcellus Clay on January 17, 1942, in Louisville, Kentucky,the younger of two boys who was named after his father, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Sr., who was also named after the 19th century abolitionist and politician of the same name.
His father painted billboards and signs while the mother Odessa O'Grady Clay, was a domestic wife.
Clay was first directed toward boxing by the white Louisville police officer and boxing coach Joe E. Martin,who encountered the 12-year-old fuming over a thief taking his bicycle.
For the last four years of Clay's amateur career he was trained by legendary boxing cutman Chuck Bodak.
Clay 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.
Clay's amateur record was 100 wins with five losses.
Ali states that he threw his Olympic gold medal into the Ohio River after being refused service at a 'whites-only' restaurant, and fighting with a white gang.
Although he was given a replacement medal at a basketball intermission during the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, where he lit the torch to start the games.

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