In Their Own Words

Muhammad Ali

Follow Muhammad Ali’s path from a gym in Louisville to boxing successes, conversion to Islam, opposition to the draft, exile from the ring, comeback fights, Parkinson’s disease and his inspirational re-emergence at the Atlanta Olympics.

Muhammad Ali

54m 40s

Follow Muhammad Ali’s path from a gym in Louisville to boxing successes, conversion to Islam, opposition to the draft, exile from the ring, comeback fights, Parkinson’s disease and his inspirational re-emergence at the Atlanta Olympics.

Previews + Extras

  • Introduction: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Introduction

    S1 E2 - 1m 56s

    Watch the highlights of boxing legend Muhammad Ali’s life and career, from his boyhood in Louisville, Kentucky to his stunning upset of Sonny Liston, his exile from boxing for refusing induction into the U.S. Army to his epic, triumphant comeback.

  • The Making of Cassius Clay: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Making of Cassius Clay

    S1 E2 - 3m 5s

    Cassius Clay’s professional boxing career begins with his signing by The Louisville Sponsoring Group. His unorthodox boxing style and the development of his bold, witty, poetic and abrasive public persona, endeared him to a younger generation of boxing fans and earned him the enmity of some established boxing writers.

  • Polarizing Social and Religious Views: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Polarizing Social and Religious Views

    S1 E2 - 3m 4s

    Explore how Muhammad Ali’s views on religion and racial integration in 1965 were polarizing during the mid-1960s civil rights movement. In November 1965, Ali fought against former champion Floyd Patterson, who cast his bout with Ali as a social, political and religious battle.

  • The Legendary Boxing Comeback Begins: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Legendary Boxing Comeback Begins

    S1 E2 - 3m 24s

    After a 3-year exile for refusing induction into the Army during the Vietnam War, Muhammad Ali’s epic boxing comeback begins with an easy victory in Atlanta, Georgia over Jerry Quarry in October of 1970, followed by a knockout of Oscar Bonavena in New York City in December, which set up the first Ali-Frazier fight.

  • Episode 2 Preview | Muhammad Ali: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Episode 2 Preview | Muhammad Ali

    S1 E2 - 29s

    Follow Muhammad Ali’s path from a gym in Louisville to boxing successes, conversion to Islam, opposition to the draft, exile from the ring, comeback fights, Parkinson’s disease and his inspirational re-emergence at the Atlanta Olympics.

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