Throughout history, This country has encountered many famous people who changed this country. Some of them were actors, politicians, and even athletes. And out of them one of them all one of was a gifted boxer named Muhammad Ali. Ali made is first marked as an amateur, then as a professional. Ali went through a hardship of delimma in his life, and not all of them changed his future but one. Throught out our lives some people must pass through a sertain hardship inorder for their dreams to be true. One obstacle will later lead him to become the greatest Muhammad Ali we all know.
Ali is one of the most famous boxers of all time. Ali has many interesting facts about his early life, amateur career, Olympics career, personal life, professional boxing career Vietnam War, and resistance to the draft. Starting Muhammad Ali was born in Louisville, Kentucky on January 7, 1942, his birth name was Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. Ali is one of the most distinguished boxers of all time. Clays work ethic was apparent even in the early years of his life. As a child, Ali had to race the school bus every morning.race. His friends would wave to him as the lead fluctuated based on the school bus’ stops.
This work ethic extended to the classroom. Because of a learning disability, Clay had to work extra hard in school to not fall behind. Clay grew up during racial segregation around him it was hard for his African American boy. These injustices sparked a passion in him to change the way people viewed African Americans: “I wanted to show that color didn’t matter”(Muhammad Ali: An American Legend). Clay’s boxing career began with an incident that happened when he was twelve years old. He and his friend rode their bikes to The Louisville Home Show in Columbia Auditorium. When the show thy cam to watch ended and getting ready to head home Clay realized that someone took his bike.
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Filled with rage, Clay wanted to avenge to someone who stole his bike. He found a police officer, Joe Martin, who told him, “You better learn how to fight before you start challenging people that you’re gonna whoop” (Hauser 18). Officer Joe became his coach, and although Clay never found the person who stole his bike, he found a love of boxing. Professional boxing made its debut here in America around the turn of the 20th century. Boxing has been described as barbarous and as an outrage to the dignity of man. For many young men and women, boxing offers an escape from a life of inevitable poverty, street fights, expulsion, teenage gangs and ultimately prison. But as the years went on more people started to get interested in the sport, and the kids wanted to become like their favorite boxer. However, over the past 30 years, boxing has regressed and lost its popularity.
Legends like the graceful Muhammad Ali and the hard-hitting Mike Tyson are gone and have been replaced by lackluster fighters and greedy fight promoters who only care about their profit cut. Floyd Mayweather, Jr. is an American boxer, he followed in Ali’s footsteps to become the greatest in his generation. Mayweather has prospered and he has managed to establish his own company through boxing. He is estimated to have over one billion in 2017. Muhammad Ali has cleared for all African American to box and made it a more enjoyable sport.
Mayweather ended his career with a 50-0 record when he retired once again, at the age of 40, Mayweather is considered to be the best boxer of his generation, and one of the greatest fighters of all time. If it was not for Ali boxing would just be a sport with no fun. In the US Olympic team of 1996, Mayweather fought his first professional bout late that year. All these have followed in Muhammad Ali’s Steps. Boxing was more popular when Muhammad Ali was in business.
In Conclusion Muhammad Ali, he’s not just a boxer or the ‘greatest boxer in the world’ as he calls himself, he is a person that is trying to stop racism. The reason why I chose him as a hero is that he is a great inspiration, he fights racism in the world and he is involved in many humanitarian groups. First of all, Mohammad Ali is a great inspiration because he tells people to never give up. If he lost a fight, he wouldn’t just mope around or feel sorry for himself, he would strive to win the next fight. If he did lose a fight, he would give the following quote ‘I never thought of losing but now that it’s happened, the only thing is to do it right. This all shows how Ali changed the sport of boxing it is not just losing and winning. Ali has set a good example to all who follow his steps of boxing.
