Muhammad Ali would start out his life as Cassius Clay in a little house in Louisville Kentucky. His father was a working class man that tried to scrape together a living as a sign painter (Grabsky). When Cassius was young he had a bicycle that he liked very much. There wasn't much money in the Clay household so this bike was very special to him. This is why Cassius go mad, so mad that he wanted to beat up the person that took it. His father asked him if he knew how to fight and Cassius said no. His father then started taking him to the boxing gym; this paved the way for the greatest boxer ever, to start his boxing c

areer (Grabsky). The fact that he started from a modest background, and then worked hard to become the success that he is today is one on the main reasons why he is looked at as an icon today.

Ali would return to the ring and with in three months he was already fighting for the title again (Grabsky). This is an amazing feat for anybody that he could be out of the sport for three and a half years and then in three months he could be fighting for the belt. This is a testament to his perseverance in the sport of boxing and in life. He lost the fight and it crushed the hearts many people that night. This was the first fight that he had lost and many people were very sad. People rallied around Ali and in the hearts of the people around him he became the winner. Ali would continue to fight until 1980 winning the title again and then losing it. Some say that he should of quite earlier and then he might not have the problem he has today. His shaking in a consent reminder of the fact that he wouldn't quite.

After the Olympics Clay got into the professional ranks of boxing. At the young age of eighteen Clay stepped into the ring for his first professional fight in which he easily beat Tunney Hunsaker by a unanimous decision. Lennox Lewis said "Clay showed the sweet science of boxing or hitting with out being hit." This was a testament to Clay's lightning quick speed, someone once said that Clay was the only boxer that could go backwards and never be hit by a punch. That is how fast he was most boxers would eventually be if they moved backwards but Clay would never be hit (Grabsky). Along with speed Clay also had an uncanny knack with words. "I'm young, I'm handsome, I'm fast, I'm pretty, and I can't possibly be beat" (Cassius Clay). He routinely predicted what round he would knock out his opponent, often using complex pomes to tell exactly how the fight would go before it happened (Grabsky). It was this cockiness that made people realize what a good fighter Clay was and what I great fighter Clay would turn into. Even though Clay talked a lot of trash he had a lot to back it up with. "Ali was an entertainer, but he could back it up which was great" (Tom Jones). By the time he was twenty-two Clay was already fight

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