muhammad ali world peace

Muhammad Ali World Peace Awards
Short Story
Garrett McCready

On January 8, 2005, Muhammad Ali was presented with the Presidential Citizens Medal by President George W. Bush.
He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom at a White House ceremony on November 9, 2005, and the "Otto Hahn Peace Medal in Gold" of the United Nations Association of Germany in Berlin for his work with the US civil rights movement and the United Nations on December 17, 2005. On November 19, 2005 Ali's 19th wedding anniversary, the $60 million non-profit Muhammad Ali Center opened in downtown Louisville. In addition to displaying his boxing items, they focus on themes of peace, social responsibility, respect, and personal growth.
Since he retired from boxing, Ali has devoted himself to humanitarian tasks around the globe. He is a religious Muslim, and travels around the world, lending his name and presence to hunger and poverty relief, supporting education efforts, promoting adoption and encouraging people to respect and understand each other. It is thought that he has helped to provide more than 22 million meals to feed the hungry. Ali travels, on average, more than 200 days per year.

rumble in the jungle

Rumble in the Jungle
Muhammad Ali vs. George Foreman.
For the WBA Heavyweight Title.
At Mai 20 Stadium in Kinshasa, Zaire.
Come see the biggest fight ever.
Tickets are only $25.
The winner gets 5 million dollars.

muhammad ali poem

We begin
With the story of a bike,
A brand new Schwinn,
Red and white,
Ridden by Cassius Clay,
On a fine day,
When you noticed your bike
Was stolen away,
A moment that changed
Your life in one day;
With tears in your eyes,
You wanted some one to pay.
So you found a cop
And went on to say,
“I’m gonna whup whoever it was that stole my bike!”
The cop replied,
“First, kid, you hafta learn how to fight!”

muhammed ali

Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. was born on January 17, 1942. He later changed it to Muhammed Ali because he didn’t want a slave name. When he was growing up in Louisville, Kentucky he got a bike for his birthday. It was a nice schwinn. He went to a place where they were giving away free pop and hot dogs. When he was going to leave he realized his bike had been stolen. He was on his way home to tell his dad and he saw the Columbia Boxing Gym. He watched and he knew that boxing was what he wanted to do. After that he started to box with kids his age. He would beat some of them but he didn’t know much. The other gym had a better trainer but he needed the $4 this gym gave him for being on a local TV boxing show. One of his first fights was going to be against Jimmy Ellis but Jimmy didn’t weigh enough. Later in Ali’s career he knocked jimmy out in a professional boxing match. Cassius signed with the Louisville Sponsoring Group for his first sponsor. They would find him matches and he would box for about $1000 per fight, which isn’t that much in boxing.
He won the Golden Gloves award in 1959. In 1960 he went to the Olympics and won the gold medal for the light-heavyweight division. After awhile he got a title shot against Sonny Liston, an ex-convict. He beat him and won the title. He made around $300,000 each match with the Louisville Sponsoring Group once he was on top. In 1964 he converted to Islam and this didn’t go well with his fellow African Americans. He would pray to Allah before every fight.
In 1964 he married Sonji but it didn’t work out so they divorced in 1965. In 1967 he received a 5 year jail sentence for turning down the army because he did not want to be involved in the war. He married Belinda in 1968. His daughter Maryum was also born in 1968. In 1970 his jail sentence was reversed. His twins Jamillah and Rasheda were born on August 21, 1970. He got his boxing license back and signed with Herbert Muhammed for a sponsor. He started making millions each fight.
He beat Joe Frazier twice and he has beaten George Foreman. He has won the Heavyweight title 3 times. Ali retired. He came back in 1980 to fight but had lost his skill and lost three matches in a row.
Ali has also worked with many charities and has donated millions of dollars to them. Ali later developed parkinsons and even has his own treatment center for it. He has won medals for promoting world peace and was a figure for stopping segregation.