Cassius Marcellus Clay

A contemporary from Louisville reflects on all that he and 50-year-old Muhammad Ali share

Muhammad Ali's trainer begins the story of the heavyweight champion's progress in the ring, describing from his unique vantage point the kid who believed so strongly in himself, who erred often but learned from every...

Cassius Clay today is like a man under voluntary house arrest. As the world of reality slips quickly away, the constricting tentacles of the Black Muslims draw more tightly around him. Out of money, his only friends...

Although he never put a valorous Floyd Patterson down for the count, Cassius Clay displayed an awesome range of skills as he battered his opponent at will and proved to a sometimes skeptical public that he is, as he...

When Sonny Liston meets Cassius Clay for the heavyweight championship, he will pit one gun—a left hook—against an arsenal, and common sense predicts he will again lose