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There has never been anybody in the history of boxing quite like Muhammad Ali. To earn nicknames like “The Greatest” and “The People’s Champion”, you have to be something special, and Ali was.

*After winning the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship defeating Sonny Liston in 1964, Cassius Clay – influenced by the Nation of Islam teachings – changed his name to Muhammad Ali (meaning “beloved ...

From the Beatles touching down in America and sending fans into a frenzy, to underdog Cassius Clay (soon to be known as Muhammad Ali) shocking the world by defeating Sonny Liston, 1964 was undeniably ...

A 10-foot high bronze statue of Muhammad Ali outside Bates Mill No. 5. in Lewiston. The statue, by Philadelphia-based artist Zenos Frudakis, commemorates Ali’s first-round knockout of Sonny Liston at ...

Muhammad Ali was nicknamed ‘The Greatest’ for a reason, and even before his fights with Frazier and Foreman, the writing was on the wall that he would reach the very top of the sport. Muhammad Ali ...

In 2015, following the 50th anniversary of the Phantom Punch, Charlie Hewitt and Tom Platz started kicking the idea around. That punch was no phantom to Platz. He was there, a seventh-grader watching ...

Zenos Frudakis stands beside his 10-foot-tall statue of Muhammad Ali at Laran Bronze Foundry in Chester, Pa. (Emma Lee/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would ...