【Dread: Mohamed Ali, former world heavyweight champion, died



Former world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali died. I was 74 years old.

Ali's brilliant boxing style, said to "stink like a butterfly and be like a bee", you can understand it with a single shot, if you see the following movie.

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Ali was born in Kentucky as Cassius Clay in 1942 and participated in the light heavyweight as an American representative in the Roman Olympics in 1960. I won a brilliant gold medal. However, after returning home, because he was refused to eat at the restaurant because he was a black person, anecdotes have been known that he threw away the gold medal in the river.

Turning to professional immediately after the Olympic Games. At that time, in 1964, he took down the invincible Sony Liston and took the heavyweight title. In rematch with Liston, I will drop the liston to the mat with a right straight one at 1R, 2 minutes and 12 seconds, and I want the strongest seat. In 1964Nation of IslamAfter subscribing to "Muhammad Ali" has been renamed.

Ali who sank the liston. One of the most famous scenes in boxing history.


After that, I reject the former heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson and Henry Cooper's challenge.


After entering the professional, it was an ant running along the undefeated highway, but refused conscription under the opposition to the Vietnam war and his own faith. In 1967 the heavyweight title was deprived and the boxing license was stopped. At this time Ali remarked, "There is no Vetcon who calls me" niger "There is no grudge against them, there is no reason to kill them." The remarks saying that black discrimination persists persistently in the American society It caused a big reaction.

In 1971 Tokyo Olympic gold medalist to the world at that time Bee grade championJoe FrazierChallenge. Ali who was bathed with Frazier 's intense left hook in the final 15 times suffered the first defeat. After that, the match between Ali and Frazier who fought three races including the rubber match has been counted as a major game remaining in boxing history.


In 1974 it was reigning as the absolute champion of those daysGeorge ForemanKO wins. This match, which Ali gave a dramatic KO victory, has been handed down as a "miracle of Kinshasa", as was done at Zaire Kinshasa.


After retiring in 1981, it was an ant nominated as the UN peace ambassador, but it developed Parkinson's disease. At the Atlanta Olympics in 1996, I played a leading role in lighting the torch with trembling hands. And in 2005 we have been awarded the Order of Freedom from the US Government due to his achievements in social activities as well as his career in boxing.

Following the death of Ali, Mike Tyson of a former, heavyweight champion who was deeply friends, twice as "a god came to pick up a champion, good bye, great man".

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