“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee” This was what Mohammed Ali taught the world. He is the Greatest boxer of all time according to most people. GOAT - GREATEST OF ALL TIME. Mohammed Ali was known to evade fast punches and mete out a bit of fury with his heavy fist. Mohammed Ali was popular for his attitudes in the ring -- dancing all round the ring while evading frustrated punches from his opponents and crippling his opponents morale with trash talks.
“It’s not bragging if you can back it up.”
Mohammed Ali died of Parkinson disease which he has been suffering from for years. This was as a result of the many hits to the head he had gone through throughout his boxing career..
Here are a few chips of Mohammed Ali’s life you might not know of ;
“I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick; I’m so mean I make medicine sick.”
Chip 1. Ali’s first move towards boxing was due to the theft of his loved red and white Schwinn bicycle. It was stolen in 1954 and Ali being twelve year old reported this theft to a policeman who trained people in boxing. This policeman advised Ali to learn how to box or fight hence Ali joined boxing. Six weeks down the line, Mohammed Ali won his first amateur boxing match.
Chip 2. Mohammed Ali was originally named after a nineteenth century white farmer who freed the forty slaves he inherited from his father. Ali was named Cassius Clay in honour of him
Chip 3. Mohammed Ali was a critically mean when it came to talking. He would first beat his opponent in the mind before beating him in the ring. He would trash talk his opponents and enrage them… he went notches higher though by adding a sing song tune to it.
Chip 4. Mohammed Ali decided against all odds not to join the US army in the vietnam war as he thought it was unjust to shoot or kill a vietcong who had never been racist to him. “no vietcog ever called me n*gger”
Chip 5. Ali’s first professional fight loss was against the ever energetic Joe Frazier in 1971. this fight was considered as the fight of the century. Surely anyone who watched the fight could tell it was too tense as none of them would back down.
Chip 6. Ali defeated George Foreman who was as good as he was in October 30,1974. this fight was titles “The rumble in the jungle”. it is one of boxing’s most Iconic fights as Ali won George Foreman with a knock out punch at the eighth round.
Chip 7. The first sign of Parkinson was seen in public in 1980 during the first and singular time Ali lost a match by a knock out in the 11th round at the age of 38.
Chip 8. Ever watched a match where Mohammed Ali dodged close to 21 fast punches from an opponent boxer under a very few seconds. I think 10 seconds or so. He was in the ring with 19 year old Micheal Dokes. Well, the thing is, Ali developed this speed by dodging rocks. He asked his best friend to throw rocks at him and it was said that he dodged every single rock thrown at him.
Chip 9. in 2013 a buyer bought Mohammed Ali’s boxing glove for a whooping $836,000 . this was the glove he used to win the world title. Ali earned $630,000 initially for winning the match.
“The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world – Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon – there are more Muhammads than anything else. When I joined the Nation of Islam and became a Muslim, they gave me the most famous name because I was the champ.”
Probably the world would not see a boxer like Mohammed Ali or maybe the new Mohammed Ali is yet to be born or discovered. Mohammed Ali’s impact on the boxing world can not be over emphasized. He is simply sensational in the ring.
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