Muhammad Ali (56-5, 37 KOs); was born Cassius Clay on January 17 ... 5 1960 at the Palazzo dello Sport stadium, Clay etched his name in Olympic history, claiming a historic gold medal and took ...

While Cassius Clay — who changed his name to Muhammed Ali in 1964 ... The Wisconsin State Journal listed him as “one of the United States’ brightest hopes for an Olympic berth” the following year in ...

eighteen-year-old Cassius Clay traveled from his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, to the Summer Olympics in Rome. He was relatively untested and competing against some of boxing’s most ...

Watching world-class Irish Olympians competing over two weeks in Paris during the summer, I cast my mind back to the games ...

It includes his Olympic triumphs as Cassius Clay, his conversion to Islam, his refusal of the Army draft, and the legal battle after being stripped of his World Title.

Includes a photo of McClure with his fellow American 1960 Olympic boxing champions, Cassius Clay and Eddie Crook, signed and inscribed in gold ink by McClure. An absolutely remarkable Olympic ...

What a year it was – the Beatles played their first gig, Cassius Clay announced his arrival on the world boxing stage at the Olympics in Rome and a young Irish-American politician, John F ...