Muhammad Ali

            Muhammad Ali is well established throughout the world for his boxing tactics and victory.  In most cases, he is termed to be a superhero as his skills still proves to be unique till today.  His boxing speed was exceptional and with the unique skills in both in his mouth and in the boxing ring he has become the present superman.  Muhammad Ali was previously known as Clay Cassius and he later changed his name to Muhammad when he transformed to a Muslim (Micklos, 2010). Muhammad Ali is reflected to be the world’s history boxer based on his enduring fame and victory, well-structured skills in the ring as well as the fascinating personality.

            Muhammad Ali is doubtfully the best proficient boxer who has ever existed.  Muhammad Ali’s life is characterized by three major traits.  The first trait is the no fear attitudes which he used to intimidate his challengers outside the fighting rings (Micklos, 2010).  The second was the skills that he held while in the boxing ring and how he continuously won numerous fights before finally meeting his major match.  The third trait is based on Ali’s struggles with a long-term ailment referred to as Parkinson which is an ailment that does not have any cure (Micklos, 2010).

            Muhammad Ali will always be remembered for his entertaining and demonstrative boxing and living. The life of Muhammad Ali turned to be among the best and most controversial living of a sports figure of all period (Micklos, 2010).  He demonstrated so much devotion and attitude to Muslim religion which turned him into many individual’s role models. Ali Muhammad came to the attention of the world first in the year 1960 after winning the Light-Heavy Weight Championship Olympic.  After he won the Sonny Liston’s Championship in 1964 he began to generate a series of continuous headlines.  Ali Muhammad becomes the first fighting boxer in the world to get paybacks from the international television which made him even a more visible figure to the whole world (Micklos, 2010).  His second Liston fight developed more controversy after Liston proved to stay down at the beginning of the first round.  However, Muhammad proved everyone wrong by turning up to be a champion in the fighting world through accepting all the challenges presented by each heavyweight that approached him (Micklos, 2010).

            In 1967 during the Vietnam War Muhammad title was stripped because he declined military service on the context of religion (Micklos, 2010). In his response, he claimed that if he was going to the war and possibly dying there so that the black individuals would attain equality, freedom, and justice he would not even hesitate. He stated that he joining the military would be assisting in killing the innocent and poor persons in other nations while the same thing was happening to the black race in America. Muhammad was permitted to resume boxing in 1970 and the Supreme Court upheld his conviction appeal in 1971 (Micklos, 2010).  In 1974 he gained the championship after boxing with foreman George. In 1978 he lost the crown to Spinks Leon but later gained it the same year (Micklos, 2010).

            In summary, Muhammad’s unstoppable character was broken by two distinct moments. The first instance was when he was defeated physically by Frazier Joe and the second one was the unfortunate Parkinson’s ailment diagnosis (Micklos, 2010). Today Muhammad is described as a humanitarian as most of his earning has been devoted to research on Parkinson and its treatment. Despite the defeat of the unstoppable character, Muhammad is still remained to be the world’s best boxer that has ever existed.

 

            Reference

Micklos, J. (2010). Muhammad Ali: "I am the greatest". Berkeley Hts, NJ: Enslow Publishers.