... name two or three professional boxers to have ever lived, Muhammad Ali is bound to be mentioned. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky on January 17, 1942 with the name Cassius Clay, but he dropped his Aslave name@ and changed it to Muhammad Ali, when he joined the Nation of Islam after his first fight with Sonny Liston for the world ... forget who he was. When he converted to Islam and outwardly proclaimed joining the Nation of Islam, he was telling Americans who he was. When he dropped his slave name, Cassius Clay, and changed it too Muhammad Ali, he was telling them not to forget where...

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