is one of the kids who had a negative relationship with their father. “You shake my hand first time – don’t come back at me second time just because now you know who I am. Muhammad Ali, Jr., son of boxing legend, speaks during a forum on the consequences of US President Donald Trumps immigration policies at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on 9 March 2017. But he said: “When I meet people and they learn I’m Muhammad Ali’s son, they want to shake my hand again, and I’m not with that. Muhammad Ali Jr reveals that people inevitably make a beeline for him because of his world-famous father. And he was eventually awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W Bush. He was arrested and stripped of his heavyweight title.īut he went on to be known for his humanitarian work with the civil rights movement and the United Nations.Īfter a career record of 56 wins and five losses, he was named Sportsman of the Century by Sports Illustrated and the Sports Personality of the Century by the BBC. In 1967, champ Ali refused to join the US military and fight in Vietnam, citing religious reasons. He and his father were named after white farmer and abolitionist Maj-Gen Cassius Marcellus Clay. Boxing icon Muhammad Ali was born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr in 1942, in Louisville, Kentucky. Then, after the rich mans son got out of college, he did other things to keep him out of the Army until he was too old to be drafted.
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