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Birth
Muhammad Ali was born Cassius Clay on January 17, 1942 but changed it to Muhammad Ali on March 6, 1964 when he became a Muslin and join the Nation of Islam. -
Birth
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Olympic Gold Medalist
Muhummad Ali known then as Classius Clay won the light-heavyweight gold medal at the Summer Olympics in Rome with a 5–0 decision over Poland's Zbigniew Pietrzykowski. -
Olympic Gold Medlist
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Heavt Weight Champion "The Greatest"
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Heavy Weight Champion "The Greatest"
Muhammad Al won the heavy weight champion title many times and he defended his title and kept it. I listed the 'Thrilla in Manila with Joe Frazier. There were other TKO's until Larry Holmes and Leon Spinks defeated him but in his record he won 56 wins and 5 loses in his career with 3 World Heavy Weight Championships -
Olympic Cauldron Lighter
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The Olympic Cauldron Lighter
Muhammad Ali was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1984. was the granted the honor of lighting the Olympic cauldron during the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games -
Death of a Champion
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Death of a Champion
Muhammad Ali, the man who could "Float like a Butterfly and Sting like a Bee" died on June 3, 2016 at the age of 74. His body was returned to his home town for an official and honorable tribute of Louisville, Ky for a beautiful sent off with a procession on June 10 from he funeral home through the streets of Louisville, pass the Muhammad Ali Blvd to Cave Hill Cemetery or a private burial. I listed the dates of his death to his burial in my timeline
