Muhammad Ali Memorabilia & Collectibles

Nicknamed The Louisville Lip, Muhammad Ali is known to be one of the greatest heavyweight championship boxers, having won both the World Heavyweight Champion and the Lineal Heavyweight Champion titles thrice. Named after his father Cassius Marcellus Clay, Sr., Ali was exposed to boxing by police officer and boxing coach Joe Martin. But Ali also trained with Fred Stoner without Martin’s knowledge, thereby still making $4 a week on the weekly TV show Tomorrow’s Champions. Aside from six Kentucky Golden Glove titles and two National Golden Glove titles, Ali earned the Light Heavyweight Gold Medal in the 1960 Summer Olympics. The breathtaking Muhammad Ali sale items will let you feel that talent of yours come out just like The Champ.

 

Ali, still then called Cassius Clay, had his first professional fight take place on October 1960 which was a six-round match that he won against Tunney Hunsaker. After that, he built a reputation by defeating such fighters as Jim Robinson and Sonny Banks. For a trainer, he considered continuing with Archie Moore or hiring his idol Sugar Ray Robinson, but he pursued Angelo Dundee instead to guide him. He actually went up to Dundee’s hotel and interrogated him about his fighter’s habits. Claim the splendid Muhammad Ali sale items today.

 

After he won the fight against Sonny Liston, Ali converted to Islam. He became a member of the Nation of Islam, which was spearheaded by Malcolm X. It was Elijah Muhammad’s statement over the phone and played over by radio stations that became a pivotal point in the name of this boxing champion; such statement was the renaming of Clay to Muhammad (worthy of praise) Ali (fourth rightly guided caliph). Show your love for this boxing icon by purchasing the incredible Muhammad Ali sale items.