(CNN) — Here is a look at the life of boxing legend Muhammad Ali, three-time world heavyweight champion and Olympic gold medalist. Marriages: Yolanda (Lonnie) Williams (November 19, 1986-June 3, 2016, ...

Muhammad Ali redefined heavyweight boxing—he broke every rule about how big men should fight. Across 21 years as a professional, Ali won 56 fights (37 by knockout) and lost only 5. Ali turned fights ...

It was a fitting end to this country’s most famous Muslim life: Family and friends gathered around the bed of Muhammad Ali, the boxer whose conversion to Islam decades ago sent countless seekers and ...

Visit of Muhammad Ali to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, March 17, 1976. During his visit he donated a pair of gloves and a ...

Compassion for one another - and the ability to see someone is valuable no matter who they are - is one of the rarest gifts a person can have. When that person is also one of the most famous people in ...

Muhammad Ali‘s public conversion to Islam, in 1964, was among the most defining moments of his remarkable life. The decision enraged his critics — his hometown newspaper continued to refer to Ali by ...

The driven, charismatic young athlete lived up to his claim to be "The Greatest" Muhammad Ali's story took on moral complexity three years into his reign as champion. Norman Mailer wrote in 1975 that, ...

After defeating Sonny Liston in 1964, an ecstatic Muhammad Ali declared: "I shook up the world." Thrusting his arms into the air, he treated the victory as if it had been a knockout. Never mind that ...