Muhammad Ali

/ ˈælɪ, ɑːˈliː, ˈɑːlɪ /

noun

1. original name Cassius ( Marcellus ) Clay. born 1942, US boxer, who was world heavyweight champion three times (1964–67; 1974–78; 1978)

Ali, Muhammad

1. An African-American boxer of the twentieth century, who was world champion in the heavyweight class for several years between 1964 and 1979. He was known in his boxing career for his flamboyant personality and aggressive self-promotion, as well as for his superior boxing ability and style. His boxing strategy, he said, was to “float like a butterfly and sting like a bee.” A Black Muslim, Ali was originally named Cassius Clay. After he refused for reasons of conscience to serve in the armed forces in the 1960s, several boxing associations revoked his title as world champion, but he regained it later. During his boxing career he was extremely popular in Africa, and after his retirement he traveled there as a goodwill ambassador.

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Video footage of the plane’s takeoff showed the General Electric engine aflame before the jet crashed in an industrial area just beyond the runway at Louisville’s Muhammad Ali International Airport.

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"People aren't going to remember Anthony Joshua for knocking out Jake Paul - George Foreman and Muhammad Ali fought fad events and journeymen, and nobody talks about that anymore."

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Photographs taken at the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport in Kentucky showed the plane engulfed in fire and smoke billowing out.

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A new bill called the Muhammad Ali American Boxing Revival Act would give boxing over to corporate bosses, burying fighters with lower standards and less pay.

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A decade before that, Muhammad Ali and George Foreman fought the famous “Rumble in the Jungle” in what was then known as Zaire, since renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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