Muhammed Ali - write about who you admire most in life any why

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Write about who you admire the most in life and why

The person in life I most admire is Muhammed Ali. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky in southern America. Like many young Black people Ali came from a poverty stricken family, this forced him to turn to boxing.

He became famous throughout the sport because of the way he could intimidate and psych out opponents by verbally taking them apart in press conferences and TV shows. This earned him the name of the “Louisville lip”. Before Ali’s first major fight against world champion Sonny Liston, Ali gave him the nickname of “The bear” and set off to Liston’s training camp with a pot of honey to “tame the bear”. This stunt was said to have made Liston so nervous that during a pre-match doctor’s check up the champion’s heart rate was so fast that he was near to having “a heart attack”. I have always    

Ali defeated Sonny Liston, who was the Mike Tyson of the 1960s. Liston was a boxer who wasn’t meant to lose a fight, he seemed invincible but Ali defeated him both in and out of the ring. This fight was one of my dad’s earliest sporting memories, he remembers how he and his brothers crowded around the wireless like so many others around the globe listening to Ali making history. The next day at mass the whole town spoke of how underdog Ali had taken apart a fearsome boxer. Later on that night instead of celebrating like so many other champions in luxury five star hotels Ali travelled to a black ghetto where he had set up camp, he had dinner with civil rights leader Malcolm X. The next morning Ali held a press conference to confirm rumours that he was involved with the Nation of Islam. He told the worlds’ press that he was the peoples’ champion.

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 “I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I am free to be what I want”.

This statement earned him many supporters because of the way he refuses to turn his back on his roots. Unlike other champions he didn’t give up on the people he grew up alongside, he kept fighting for equal rights by becoming a spokesman for the oppressed.

Ali who was known by his birth name Cassius Marcellus Clay changed his name to Cassius X, saying, “Clay is the name of my owners. I am no longer Cassius Clay I am ...

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