Muhammad Ali.
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M. Muñoz · AI-narrated by Martin (from Google)
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On February 25, 1964, a twenty-two-year-old fighter from Louisville, Kentucky, stepped into a Miami Beach ring against the most feared heavyweight champion in boxing history and emerged as something the sport had never quite seen before: a champion who was also a poet, a provocateur, a political figure, and a man of deep religious conviction -- all at once, all simultaneously, all in public. Cassius Clay became Muhammad Ali that night, and in doing so he set in motion a transformation of his own identity and of the public meaning of athletic celebrity that would take decades to complete.This book follows Ali from his childhood in the segregated South through his amateur career and Olympic gold medal in Rome, through the professional ascent and the transformation into the most recognized face on earth, through the years of exile that followed his refusal to be inducted into the United States Army in 1967. It follows the great fights -- the three encounters with Joe Frazier, the eighth-round knockout of George Foreman in Kinshasa, the brutal wars with Ken Norton -- and it follows the later years of physical decline, the Parkinson's diagnosis, the Atlanta torch, and the death in 2016 that prompted an outpouring of grief from every corner of the world. It is the story of a man who was the greatest heavyweight boxer of his era and possibly of all time, who was one of the most significant political figures of the 1960s and 1970s, and who was -- in the specific combination of physical genius, verbal brilliance, and moral courage -- genuinely, in every dimension of the word, the greatest.
On February 25, 1964, a twenty-two-year-old fighter from Louisville, Kentucky, stepped into a Miami Beach ring against the most feared heavyweight champion in boxing history and emerged as something the sport had never quite seen before: a champion who was also a poet, a provocateur, a political ...
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