The Incomparable Champion, Mohamed Ali
The Incomparable Champion, Mohamed Ali
The 22 year-old Olympic Champion Cassius Clay got his chance to take the Heavy-Weight Championship title in February 1964.
Cassius Clay Sported an impressive record of 19 Professional Wins before the Liston-Clay title match.
He was ready and able to defeat Sonny Liston in Miami and take the title which he kept until Joe Frazier won the 1971 match in New York City's Madison Square Gardens.
He Lost his Championship Title and Won it Back
Three separate Times!
A man is often judged by his opponents in his victories
and in his defeats.
"Champions are Not Champions because they
Have Never Known Defeat.
They are Champions because They Never Gave Up."
Ali was one who never gave up. Through his career he had only five losses and 56 wins.
After being banned from boxing for three years and being stripped of his title for objecting to the draft call of the Vietnam War
Mohammed Ali returned to regain his position among boxings great champions defeating George Foreman.
Kenny Norton broke the champion's jaw in giving Mohamed Ali his second defeat but Ali bounced back defeating Kenny Norton two times in the later bouts.
Another challenger Larry Holmes, would take Ali's title.
Yet Mohamed Ali remains the only three-time lineal world heavy-weight champion regaining his 1964 Heavy-Weight titles in 1974 and 1978.
What a career of determination over twenty years with three of his prime years blotted out that could have been his best.
To say the men who wished to take his place were talented and determined proves their tenacity and pursuit of excellence.
These are examples to us whether we are the champions or the challengers.
We must also strive for the mastery.
No matter what the challenges or at times defeats
We can always aspire to the title of champions of the world.
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