Cassius Clay got his start training with police officer Joe Martin. At 12 years old, he participated in his first amateur fight against Ronnie O'Keefe. Aired 09/19/2021. From.

Cassius Clay was not a complete unknown. ... which was no surprise to many in Miami that had seen Malcolm X visiting the training sessions. Clay officially changed his name to Muhammad Ali.

Before Muhammad Ali was The Greatest, he was Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., a kid with fast legs and a faster mouth growing up in Louisville, Kentucky, in the 1940s and ‘50s.

In 1964, a 22-year-old Cassius Clay was largely untested as a pro. Then he stepped into the ring. In 1964, ... "From Cassius Clay," he wrote on one of his training gloves, ...

Feb. 25, 1964: A crowd of 8,297 saw a brash 22-year-old named Cassius Clay live up to the oversized hype he created ahead of the world heavyweight title fight against champion Sonny Liston in ...

So who was the original Cassius Clay? The simple answer is that he was a prominent abolitionist politician in the mid-1800s. He served in the Kentucky House of Representatives and was appointed ...

Twenty-two-year-old Muhammad Ali, then known as Cassius Clay, defeated reigning world boxing champ Sonny Liston on this day in history, Feb. 25, 1964, in Miami, Florida.

RACINE — The latest production at the Racine Theatre Guild invites audiences to “step into the ring with the story of a young boxer on the cusp of greatness.” “And in this Corner: Cassius ...

Kent Greene, 83, won the Chicago Golden Gloves multiple times in the late 1950s, but it was his TKO of a then little-know boxer named Cassius Clay in 1958 that grabs most people's attention.