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Italy dominated boxing at the 1960 Summer Olympics, winning three gold medals and seven medals overall.Two of the gold medalists would later become Hall of Fame world champions in professional boxing: American Cassius Clay (later known as Muhammad Ali) and Italian Nino Benvenuti.
The two fights between Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston for boxing's World Heavyweight Championship were among the most controversial fights in the sport's history. Sports Illustrated magazine named their first meeting, the Liston–Clay fight (Ali had not yet changed his name from Cassius Clay), as the fourth greatest sports moment of the ...
Muhammad Ali was often dubbed the world's "most famous" person in the media. [354] [355] Several of his fights were watched by an estimated 1–2 billion viewers between 1974 and 1980, and his lighting of the torch at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics was watched by an estimated 3.5 billion viewers. [235] Muhammad Ali pop art painting by John Stango
The famous boxer Cassius Clay, later known as Muhammad Ali, was so incensed by racism that he threw his 1960 Olympic medal into a river. The famous boxer Cassius Clay, later known as Muhammad Ali ...
The company handled Ali's boxing promotions and pay-per-view closed-circuit television broadcasts; its stockholders were mainly fellow Nation of Islam members, such as Jabir Herbert Muhammad and the chief aide to Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad, John Ali, [27] along with several others, including Bob Arum, who later founded Top Rank.
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From Michael Phelps' 8 gold medal world record to Muhammad Ali lighting the Olympic flame, the Olympics is filled with emotional moments
Cassius Clay vs. Tunney Hunsaker was a professional boxing match contested on October 29, 1960. It was the first professional bought contested by Muhammad Ali (who was then known as Cassius Clay). [ 1 ] [ 2 ]