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Muhammad Ali Facts:
Muhammad Ali height: 6 feet & 3 inches
Weight: 95 kg (210 pounds)
Age: 72 years (January 17, 1942)

The Louisville Lip, Muhammad Ali was born as Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr. on 17th January, 1942. Standing in a striking immense height of 6 feet & 3 inches Muhammad had written his name in the history of American boxing as one of the greatest heavyweights. The former pro boxer has an athletic build body holding a total body weight of 95 kg. 

Unlike several boxers, Muhammad Ali was brought up in a compassionate, African-American middle class household. Louisville city, Kentucky, United States born Muhammad is the elder of 2 sons born to Odessa O’Grady Clay & Cassius Marcellus Clay, Sr. His dad painted signs & billboards while his mother was simply a household domestic. Though his father followed Methodism, Muhammad & his smaller brother, Rudolph “Rudy Clsy” aka Rahman Ali were raised Baptist by his mother. He is largely of African American ancestry, with Italian, English & Irish descent. The champ has been wedded 4 times & is a father to his 9 children, 2 sons & 7 daughters, with multiple partners. For the first time, he was married to Sonji Roi, a cocktail waitress, from 1964 to 1966. The next year he tied knot with Belindra Boyd aka Khalilah Ali, with whom he shares 4 children together. The couple divorced in 1977. That year, he walked down the aisle with his girlfriend since 1975, Verovica Porsche, a model cum actress. They welcomed their 2 daughters together & ended their marriage by 1986. At age 44, he got married for the 4th time with his long time friend, Yolanda “Lonnie” Williams. Together the couple is parent to their adopted son, named Asaad Amin. He as well has further 2 daughters from his extramarital affairs.

Though boxing was flowing in his blood since age 12, but it wasn’t till his victory over 2 national titles of the Golden Gloves that Muhammad Ali decided to pursue a career in boxing. His amateur record for boxing was hundred wins with 5 losses. At age 22, he earned the 1964 World Heavyweight Championship defeating Sonny Liston within a stunning upset. Soon after the bout, the boxer got enrolled to the Nation of Islam & subsequently changed his birth name. At the age of 33 in 1975, Muhammad transferred to Sunni Islam. Nicknamed “The People’s Champion” as well as “The Greatest”, the boxing champ was involved in numbers of momentous boxing matches. Remarkable among these was the foremost Liston fight, 3 & 1 with opponents Joe Frazier & George Foreman respectively, where he re-earned honors he had been hooped of 7 years previously. His procedures as an assiduous protester to the battle build his iconic image for the bigger counterculture generation.

A polarizing & controversial figure throughout his early professional career, Muhammad Ali is today broadly celebrated for the dexterities & skills he presented within the ring in addition the ethics he exemplified exterior of it: racial justice, religious freedom & the conquest of belief over expedience. He currently resides in Arizona’s Scottsdale with his latest wife, Lonnie, who had too converted from Catholicism to Islam several years back.