Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times
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| Author: | Thomas Hauser |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
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| Pages: | 544 |
| ISBN-10: | 671779710 |
| Category: | Array |
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Muhammad Ali was a very colorful personality who introduced a new aspect of entertainment into the boxing industry. He was the best promotion that boxing had ever experienced.
He made predictions of each fight’s outcome and made clever poems to go along with his predictions.
- He’s a mix, He’ll go down in six.
- I have a great one-two punch. The one hits a lot, but the two hits a bunch.
- When you look at him it will make you sick,because on his face you'll see nick after nick
- I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.
- I floats like a butterfly sting like a bee, you can't touch me cause I'm Ali
His life is so interesting. I really enjoy learning about it. He was a great fighter...probably the best of all times.
Muhammad Ali was the Islamic name given to Cassius Clay by Elijah Muhammad the leader of the Nation of Islam movement. The Nation of Islam movement believe that Blacks were a superior race and that the white race and other races were created thousands of years ago by selective breeding. They believe that the whites were devils and that they suppressed the blacks for no reason and therefore they must be devils. Whites didn’t suppress the Japanese or the Germans the way they suppressed blacks even after both waged world wars against the U.S. Don’t quote me on any of this because I don’t claim to have a firm grasp on the movement but that is what I understood from the book. Actually, Malcom X (the X is inplace of a last name becase he resented the fact that his family, who were slaves, had been given the name of their owners) played a part in the whole movement and was friends with Muhammad Ali.
