LIFE’s editors dispatched many of the magazine’s photographers—including ... a desire to please his legions of fans. The legacy of Muhammad Ali, of course, extends far beyond his feats ...

Clay visits a mosque in Miami and later declares the experience "the first time in my life that I felt truly ... Elijah has bestowed him the name Muhammad Ali. The name means "Praiseworthy One." ...

It was the battle of the champs, and not just according to LIFE Magazine’s headline: Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, two undefeated boxers, would meet head to head on March 8, 1971. Each would ...

The ecstatic, tragic life of Muhammad Ali Raymond A. Schroth, S.J. December 28, 2017 Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay), right, lands on Don Warner's jaw in an early exchange of their fight in Miami ...

When Muhammad Ali was featured in TIME Magazine on Feb. 27 ... that no matter what the world or the sport or life did to him, he wasn’t going anywhere. As TIME quoted him in a cover story ...

I first became a serious Muhammad Ali watcher in ... I sold my first story to a big national magazine; that piece concerned Ali’s influence on my life. Yet, in 1986, frustrated by not being ...

He also lost his match. 2On a return trip in 1959, he heard a recording of Louis Farrakhan singing “A White Man’s Heaven Is a Black Man’s Hell”—Muhammad Ali’s introduction to the ...

Randy Roberts is professor of history at Purdue University and author, with Johnny Smith, of Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad ... the rest of his life, Ali thought and acted ...

Muhammad Ali, who died Friday at the age of 74 ... who photographs the fight for Life magazine. March 31, 1973: Suffers a broken jaw during a loss to Ken Norton. Wins rematch five months later.