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 * Charles Dutton**
 * Muhammad Ali Accomplishments**

Throughout Muhammad Ali’s life he has many accomplishments most having to due with boxing itself but he did win some awards for doing other things. Muhammad Ali first accomplishment was in 1959 when he won the “National Golden Gloves Light Heavyweight Champion”. This is a reward for being a boxing champion for that year. The person that Muhammad Ali fought for the championship belt was Sonny Liston who was the previous champion. Also in the year 1959 Ali won an award known as the “National Amateur Athletic Union champion” which was also earned for boxing.

Yet again in 1960 Ali won the award for “National Golden Gloves Light Heavyweight Champion”. Which he won for beating the previous champion named Zbigniew Pietrzylowski who was Polish. Ali also won the award for ‘National Amateur Athletic Union Champion”. To finish this year off he also won the “Gold Medal, Rome Olympics, light heavyweight boxing”. Which is given to the person that is the lightweight champion at the Olympics.

Through 1964-67 Ali won the World Heavy Championship, which is awarded by beating the champion. The champions name was Cassius Clay who was known as undefeated and had a special move called the phantom punch, which was guaranteed to knock out his opponent. By 1970 Ali went to an event called the Martin Luther King Memorial which was to acknowledge Dr. King. Four years later Ali enters boxing again after a long needed break and ends up in the magazine “Sports Illustrated”. He was known as fighter of the year. For four straight years Ali was the heavyweight champion. In 1974 Ali fought Joe Frazier who ended up beating Ali in a fifteen round match. Joe then had to fight George Foreman ( yes that George Foreman) and Joe had lost. Ali takes on Foreman and ends up getting his heavyweight championship belt.

In 1977 Laila Ali is born. The year is 1979 Ali loses his belt to Joe Frazier and knows that he has to get it back. Ali and Frazier fight to their last breath and Ali ends up winning which lets him keep his championship belt. In all the excitement Louisville, Kentucky names a street after him in honor. Ali was also rewarded with his honorary doctorate from Texas Southern University. Six years pass and Ali realizes that he is getting older and decided to retire from his boxing career and put down his now famous gloves in order to relax with his family. Ali is recognized for his effort in his boxing career and is given respect from all over the world.

In 1987 he is elected to be in the boxing hall of fame. In 1990 he was taken out of the boxing hall of fame and put into the “International Boxing Hall of Fame”. Another six years fly by and he is chosen to light the torch at the Olympics. Finally he won two awards in 1997 one for being the most courageous boxer given to him by ESPN. The other award was called the “Essence Living Legend Award” which is given to you by being a known legend in a sporting event.

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**Social, Political, Economic Chart**


 * **Social** ||
 * Ali’s social life was very similar to his political life he would always hold some sort of social event ||
 * When Ali won the Olympics he showed everyone the medal he won even if they did not want to see it ||
 * Ali held parties for many people even surprise parties ||
 * Even though Ali’s parents did not have a good relationship with their son at the time Ali still held parties for them ||
 * When Ali would be in a fight in the ring he would talk to his opponents to distract them ||
 * **Political** ||
 * Muhammad Ali had a marketing sense, which meant that he was very familiar about things in the market ||
 * Muhammad Ali also had a political sense, which made him very familiar with anything about politics ||
 * Muhammad Ali was committed to political ideas throughout his boxing career ||
 * Muhammad Ali would go to many different political events ||
 * Muhammad Ali was trying to stop racism as much as he could so in honor of Martin Luther King he held a political party for him ||
 * **Economic** ||
 * In Ali’s younger years he changed his name from Cassius Clay to Muhammad Ali because he converted to Islam and in respect to his new religion he was required to change his name ||
 * Ali was actually a republican and still is ||
 * The reason why he was a republican was because his religion told him that was right ||
 * Muhammad Ali ended up meeting the president of Cuba in his younger years ||
 * Ali also meet Malcolm X when they converted to Islam they somehow ended up meeting each other ||
 * The reason why he was a republican was because his religion told him that was right ||
 * Muhammad Ali ended up meeting the president of Cuba in his younger years ||
 * Ali also meet Malcolm X when they converted to Islam they somehow ended up meeting each other ||

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