Boxer Niko Valdes is pictured at 5th Street Gym in Miami, FL on June 4, 2016. While he was born Cassius Clay in Louisville, Ky., he became Muhammad Ali here in Miami Beach. He arrived here as Clay ...

Flip Schulke, a native of New Ulm, Minnesota and a 1954 graduate of Macalester College, [took] photographs for [some] sixty years, since he received a Kodak “Baby Brownie Special” camera when he was ...

These days the former Cassius Clay is, at 72, a brittle shell in the cruel embrace of Parkinson’s, while the original 5th Street Gym is as irretrievably gone as some magical, disappeared night ...

The new 5th Street Gym has been ... Spinks “and I cried.” Ali, then Cassius Clay, moved to Miami in 1960 and used to run across the causeway to the gym owned by trainer Angelo Dundee and ...

They remind themselves this is 2010, so their minds aren't playing time-warp tricks on them, and the signs do say the 5th Street Gym is ... Ali was Cassius Clay when he arrived in December 1960.

It was 1964, and Cassius Clay hadn’t yet butterflied ... For just 25 cents, anyone could go watch him work at the 5th Street Gym, an airless, low-ceilinged hotbox up a wood staircase in a ...

The Beatles had only been in America for 11 days when they found themselves herded into Miami Beach’s 5th Street Gym for a photo op with a 22-year-old boxer named Cassius Clay. It was February ...

It’s the story of Cassius Clay. If you turn right ... you’re headed toward the building on South Fourth Street downtown that housed the basement gym where he began to box.

Seven thousand empty seats greeted the arrival of Cassius Clay in the ring for ... made their way across town to Dundee’s 5th St gym to meet Clay. They were not impressed, but there remains ...

Surrounded by Jim Crow, the man who would become the most famous boxer in history slipped away to get a gym glow. That’s the teenager we meet in “And in This Corner: Cassius Clay.” ...