Ali came along at just the right time and his evolution from a heel to a face was what made him compelling.
Fun Fact-When Jimmy Carter was negotiating the Camp David Accords with Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat Carter and Sadat took time our to watch...
There are 1.9 billion Muslims. Of course there were less in the 1970s. Muhammad Ali was the most well known Muslim beside the Prophet Mohammed....
And it wasn't just political leaders. He was palling around with the biggest celebrities of the 70s like Clint Eastwood, Willie Nelson, and John...
Roosevelt should have invited Louis to the White House after he kicked Schmeling's ass. Gerald Ford invited Ali to the White House after...
That's fair but he became legendary with the passing of time.
We should mention Joe Louis. His place in history can't be ignored. He stuck Hitler's notion of Aryan supremacy right up his ass.
Well, one gentleman had audiences with Anwar Sadat, Indira Gandhi, Leonid Brezhnev, Deng Xiaoping, Jimmy Carter, and Gerald Ford
I reckon I'm going with Floyd.
Everyone but him
They would be bosses.
He was stopped once in sixty six fights when he was thirty eight years old, coming off eighteen months of inactivity, and was baked. I agree Joe...
If Floyd was washed at 30 which was his age when he fought Ali intellectual honesty demands we grade every fight Muhammad Ali had after 1972 when...
I saw a poster say Louis would stop Ali. There is no iteration of Ali from 1965-1977 Louis would stop , i.e knock out. As evidence for my claim...
Any "advantage" Ali had from the loose ropes was mitigated by the small ring.
