Muhammad Ali Research Paper

Muhammad Ali was known to be the world’s greatest boxer of all time. Ali was raised in a Baptist home, but due to being discriminated against because he was an African

American, he joined the Nation of Islam with other African Americans and converted to being an Orthodox Muslim. Ali went through a lot of hatred against him before and during his career as a boxer. It is truly incredible that due to the fact that his bike was stolen by someone when Ali was twelve, that he started boxing six days a week and creating a very successful boxing career. Mohammad Ali was twelve years old when his bike was stolen at the Columbia

Auditorium. Ali immediately went over to the police officer that was in the basement whose name was Joe Martin.

Muhammad Ali won his first Olympics in Rome during the summer of 1960. That means that he was eighteen years old. Ali won the Olympic light heavyweight gold medal by defeating Polish boxer Zbigniew Pietrzkowski from Poland to win the light heavyweight gold medal. Muhammad Ali nearly didn’t travel to the Olympics that was located in Rome, due to the fact that he was afraid of flying on airplanes, especially overseas from America all the way to the Mediterranean across the Atlantic Ocean. Muhammad Ali even bought himself a parachute that he wore on the flight from America to Rome because he was frightened that something wrong would happen to the airplane during the flight, and that he would have to bail out and use the parachute to safely land. Everyone knew that Ali was afraid of flying so no one expected him to appear as a boxer in the 1960 Rome Olympics. A news reporter went up to Ali after the Olympics and told him that everyone is shocked at the fact that Ali appeared in the Olympics and even won a gold medal in addition to that. Muhammad Ali threw his gold medal into the Ohio River. This occurred due to the

People all around both black and white followed him in his tracks and soon speak the love that he wanted to spread through the teachings of

Islam. Ali always looked for a challenge to fight. He never wanted to do something easy.

The easy way out is always the incorrect way out. That is the rules that he followed. He always challenged former or current champions so that he could defeat them and earn their titles even though he himself knew it would be a difficult task to accomplish. Yet Ali trained six times a week all the way since he was twelve years old. That is pure determination for one individual. All these examples of how Ali was definitely proved to be the greatest. In conclusion, Muhammad Ali was a person that did so much to earn being called “The

Greatest” by the majority of the population. His actions are what led him to being the greatest. Ever since he was a little boy, the only reason he ever became a boxer was because his bike was stolen from him at the age of twelve. I have a feeling that if Ali was still alive today, and if he met the person that stole his bike, Ali would end up not wanting to beat him up. Instead he would thank that person for inspiring Ali to become the