Mohamed ali anglais

Muhammad ali was born January 17, 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky, he was an American boxer in the heavyweight category, considered one of the greatest boxers of all time Born under the name of Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr., he changed it in Mohamed Ali at the age of 22 after joining the Nation of Islam in 1965 at the time of his conversion to Islam. Considered a cultural icon, Mohamed Ali was both adulated and vilified. At the age of 18, he won the gold medal for light heavyweights at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome In 1967, three years after winning the world heavyweight championship against Sonny Liston, he was criticized for his refusal to to be enlisted in the US Army as opposed to the Vietnam War saying "No Vietcong never treated me as a Negro" Mohamed Ali is arrested and convicted of fraud. He is not imprisoned, but dispossessed of his world title and his boxing license. He does not fight for nearly four years until his appeal is finally received by the US Supreme Court.

Nicknamed The Greatest, Mohamed Ali becomes the first triple world heavyweight champion. He has participated in several historic boxing fights Among these, three contests against rival Joe Frazier are considered among the biggest fights in boxing history, as well as his clash against George Foreman in Kinshasa which he won by KO in the eighth round in front of about 100,000 spectators, October 30, 1974 Mohamed Ali is known for his unorthodox fighting style for a heavyweight, embodied by his slogan "fly like a butterfly, sting like a bee" and employing such techniques that the "Shuffle Ali", the "rope-dope" and, upstream of the fight, the "trash talking" (haranguing his opponents, it leads against them a real "psychological war" and media, to destabilize) Thanks to his extraordinary skills and personality, Mohamed Ali has become one of the most famous athletes in the 20 century . Voted 6 times best boxer of the year by Ring Magazine (a record) and integrated into the International Boxing Hall of Fame, Ali is considered one of the greatest boxers in history

In 1999, he was crowned "Sportsman of the Century" by Sports Illustrated and "Sports Personality of the Century" by the BBC He was named twentieth century sportsman by an assembly of international journalists, preceding Pele. In Berlin, in March 2005, he receives the Otto Hahn Peace Medal on behalf of the United Nations Organization "for his commitment to the American movement against segregation and the cultural emancipation of blacks around the world. ". He is decorated in 2005 with the Presidential Medal of Liberty, the highest civilian honor in the United States

 his provocative personality, his religious and political positions, and his personal destiny. He has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease since 1984, exhibiting to the world when he lit the Olympic cauldron in Atlanta in 1996. He died on June 3, 2016 at the age of 74, as a result respiratory problems.

Mohamed Ali does not leave a trace in the sports world. His fight for civil rights also makes him one of the most prominent sports figures in the political struggle.

"I am America, I am that part of the country you do not want to recognize, but get used to me: black, self-confident, presumptuous". Slave grandson, admirer and friend of Malcom X In the 1940s and 50s, the city of Louisville, along the Ohio River, where he grew up, is a world of segregation: at school, at school church, in public spaces, the world is separated into two Americas. One black, the other white. If he had become over the years a kind of global icon, whose consensual image of old sage was strengthened by his long fight against Parkinson's disease, Mohamed Ali was long considered by some of the public opinion American as a radical, excessive figure. In the early 1960s, Cassius Clay approached Malcom X activist: "He was afraid of nothing, it attracted me". The relationship between the two men, strong, mixes sport, racial issues and politics in an era of revolt and fighting.

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