by Jonathan Eig
Ali’s scream, 488–89
Ali’s silence, 454
analysis/statistical analysis of, 299–301
branding/products and, 80, 98–99, 262, 263, 435, 440
broken jaw/healing, 347, 348, 352
celebrations after Foreman fight (1974), 403, 404
comeback fight (1970), 287–95
comeback fights (1980/1981) and, 477–89, 493–98
controversial fight decisions and, 300, 359–60, 434, 443
damage/people pushing him to quit, 434, 449–50, 451–52
diet/alcohol and, 89, 113, 114
as different fighter/ailments (starting 1970), 299, 301
draft refusal effects, 215–18, 220–21, 224–25, 226–27, 229–30, 240–41, 245, 249, 277, 290, 363
drug test failure/Nevada Athletic Commission and, 490–91
early fights, 75–76, 79–81, 83
in England/fight (1963), 120–23
entourage, 113–15, 140, 176–77, 417, 418, 466
entourage/roles at training camp, Pennsylvania, 353–55, 410
exhibition at Salt Lake City, 378–79
feelings/behavior before fights, xiv, 44, 56, 385
fighting back from exile (summary), 363, 364–65
fighting in other countries (US boxing exile), 217–22
fights (1962), 92–95
fights/plans (1974), 405–6, 407–12
fights/plans (1975), 431–34
finances/handling money and, 100, 132, 133, 134, 141, 153, 168, 198–201, 206–10, 220, 222, 334, 335–36, 353, 436–37, 446–47, 454–55
first fight (1960), 75–76
first fight in Madison Square Garden (1962), 91–92
“half-dream room,” 317–18, 396
heavyweight championship (after Foreman fight), 400
heavyweight championship taken away, 224–25, 240–41, 363
on his bragging/showmanship, 99
Holmes fight/after retiring (1980) and, 477–89
Madison Square Garden ending Ali fight offers, 451
mocking opponents/criticism for, 57, 101, 103, 106–7, 120, 128–29, 130–31, 357–58, 365, 405
retirement dreams, 459–60, 467
retirement end/fights (1976), 446, 447–51
retirement promise/Wallace Muhammad, 444–45
retirement talk and, 153, 157, 222–23, 307, 311, 326, 328, 329, 348, 370, 371, 378, 390, 407, 431, 437, 459–60, 467
“rope-a-dope” tactic, 300, 398, 411, 427, 433, 448, 509
sportswriters/people on Ali being washed up, 443–44, 448
sportswriters/reporters on early fights, 76, 80, 82, 83
style, 36–37, 60, 66, 76, 80, 115, 140, 224, 227, 234, 345, 348
training/boxing schedule following Supreme Court decision, 328–30, 332–34
training camp, Pennsylvania, 336, 352–55, 371, 373, 376–77, 406, 407, 410, 415, 454, 459, 498, 511
weight concerns (1970s/1980s), 413, 432–33, 453, 461, 463, 493, 496
See also brain damage/Ali; specific events; specific individuals/groups; Vietnam War and Clay/Ali
Boyd, Belinda
Ali/dating and, 242–44
background/description, 242–44
Nation of Islam/name change and, 242, 243, 244, 436
work/situation after Ali divorce, 507, 532
Boyd, Belinda–Ali marriage
Ali accusing Belinda/hitting her, 388
Ali as husband/father, 253, 255, 262, 272–74, 276, 314–15, 333, 336–37, 388
Ali’s banishment (Nation of Islam) and, 266
Ali’s other women/children and, 272–74, 276, 314–15, 333, 345, 346, 354, 377, 387, 388, 415–21, 422–23, 424, 431
Belinda after Ali-Norton fight, 347–48
Belinda arranging Ali’s affairs and, 273, 417
Belinda as wife/mother, 252, 254, 255, 262, 336–37, 347–48
Belinda’s Foreman shirt and, 375–76
Blazing Saddles/Western movies and, 252–53, 376–77
divorce/Ali payments and, 439
Foreman fight/training and, 375–77, 380, 383, 388, 400
as newlyweds/sex, 252–53
Porche and, 418–21
pregnancies/children, 253, 261–62, 274, 277
training camp, Pennsylvania and, 352, 354, 375–77
wedding/honeymoon, 244
Boyd, Raymond/Aminah, 243
Braddock, Jimmy, 394
Bragg, Don, 106
brain damage/Ali
after Young fight (1975) and, 434
Ali on, 413–14, 479–80, 481–82, 494, 495, 501, 503, 515
Ali on risks of boxing, 109–10, 332
British physicians on, 479–80, 481–82
descriptions, 319, 320, 328–29, 330
exams before/after Holmes fight (1980), 482–83, 494, 501–2
exams/hospitalizations (1983), 503–4
Holmes fight/preparation (1980) and, 478–80, 481–84, 487–89
other symptoms, 416, 500, 501, 502
Pacheco and, 301, 330, 434, 439, 449–50, 451–52, 462, 478–79, 482, 492, 504
Parkinson’s syndrome/medications, xiv, 504, 505, 515
sense of smell loss, 494
sparring strategy/punches and, xiv, 140, 290, 299–300, 328–29, 330, 334, 412–13, 416, 453–54, 462, 463–64, 481, 483–84, 500, 504–5, 545n
speech slowing/slurring (beginning 1971), 331–32, 448, 462, 472, 482, 494, 500, 501
brain damage/boxing
boxing abolition/reform and, 501
descriptions, xii–xiii, 319, 504
knowledge (1959), 50–51
vs. other sports, 330–31
punch-drunk/CTE, 331
speech/language and, 331–32
Brando, Marlon, 353–54
Brathwaite, Cecil, 107–8
Breckenridge, Howard, 35
Brennan, William, 323
Brenner, Teddy, 451, 484
Brezhnev, Leonid, 459–60
Brooks, Eddie, 328–29
Brooks, Mel, 376
Brown, Drew, Jr./“Bundini”
background/description, 114–15, 185–86
Belinda Boyd Ali and, 348
Clay/Ali and, 114–15, 143, 148, 151, 176, 183, 185–86, 190, 269, 289, 293, 294, 295, 298, 307, 318, 320, 333, 346, 354, 355, 356, 357, 359, 392–93, 399, 401, 429, 433, 437, 456, 466–67, 472, 484, 488, 498, 512
death, 512
Nation of Islam/Elijah Muhammad and, 185
Brown, Freddie, 477
Brown, James, 83, 373, 388
Brown, Jim, 106, 145, 152, 153, 245, 246, 248, 365
Brown, Oscar, Jr., 270
Brown v. Board of Education (1954), 18, 31–33
Brown, William Lee Lyons, 74
Buck White play, 270–71
Bufman, Zev, 270
Bugner, Joe, 329, 333, 335, 407, 412, 420, 421
Bunche, Ralph, 104
Bundini. See Brown, Drew, Jr./“Bundini”
Burns, Tommy, 28
Burrough, Bryan, 344
Burton, Richard, 121
Bush, George H.W., 510
Bush, George W., 529, 530
Cabot, Sebastian, 97
Cadillacs and Clay/Ali
hearse/funeral procession and, 536
by mid-1960s, 133, 176
pink Cadillac, 75, 263
tomato-red Cadillac, 101, 103, 105, 108, 110–11, 112, 118, 183
Calhoun, Patrick, Jr., 74
Calloway, Cab, 79
“Campanella, Roy” imposter, 355
Cannon, Jimmy, 120, 134–35, 160, 208, 226
Caplan, Bill, 372
Carlos, John, 258
Carmichael, Stokely, 385
Carpenter, Harry, 121
Carson, Johnny, 103, 466
Carter, Jimmy, 475–77
Cassius Marsellus Clay Jr. v. United States (1971), 323–25
Casson, Ira, 502
Central High School, Louisville, 30–31, 33, 58–59, 71–72, 404,
533
Chaliapin, Boris, 101
Chamberlain, Wilt, 326
Champ Nobody Wanted, The (Liston), 97
Champion Sports Management/plans, 511–12
Charles, Ezzard, 26
Cherry, Garland, 162
Chicago Defender, 106, 107–8, 244
Chicago’s American, 208, 215
China Syndrome, The (movie), 507
chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), 331
Chuvalo, George
Ali fight, 217–19, 269
background/description, 191, 218, 224, 294, 333
civil rights movement
antiwar movement and, 230–31, 238, 249–51
boycotts and, 32–33, 250
Chicago Freedom Movement, 538–39
events/media (mid-1960s), 164, 166
militancy and, 166, 203
“sit-ins,” 53, 88, 102
status by 1973, 364
women/equal rights (1968), 258
See also specific individuals
Civil War, 15
“Claim to Fame” address (Wilson/Central High School), 58–59
Clarence X (Clarence Gill), 177
Clark, LaMar, 81, 82
Clark, Ramsey, 232
Clark, William, 216
Clay, Cassius Marcellus, Jr.
ancestors overview, 3–6
on childhood, 30
dreams/flying dream, 69
driver’s license problems and, 75, 101, 103, 110
flying phobia, 55, 56, 58
lack of actions on race and, 101–3, 107–8
segregation experiences (summary), 155, 157
slave name and, 3
twenty-first birthday celebration, 96, 97
See also Ali, Muhammad; boxing
Clay, Cassius Marcellus, Jr. childhood
bicycle theft, 20–22
birth/naming, 9
confidence/attention and, 22, 24–25, 34
descriptions, 10, 12, 13, 14, 38, 53, 54, 56
dyslexia and, 33–35
fainting, 54
first punch/effects, 12
graduation from high school/officials debate on, 58–59
homes/neighborhood, 9, 10, 11
knife cut by father, 3, 29, 30
mother’s biography on, 11–12
play/pets, 10, 13
popularity in school, 34, 51, 54
punishment, 14, 30
racism and, 15–18, 19
school/academics and, 23, 30–31, 33–34, 38, 58–59, 100, 519
school lunch and, 12–13
scooter, 22, 34
sports and, 13, 30–31
working/jobs, 38
See also boxing and Clay/Ali (childhood beginnings)
Clay, Cassius Marcellus, Sr. (“Cash”)
Ali boxing/money and, 72, 73, 76, 233, 234, 307, 430, 437, 452
asking Ali to quit boxing, 452
behavior after Olympics, 72–73
death/Ali on, 518
descriptions/drinking and, 3, 7, 8, 25, 29–30, 55, 72–73, 81, 165
lifestyle, 7, 8, 72, 81, 436
Martin and, 72, 73, 76
names/slavery and, 5–6
nightclub and, 173
Quarry fight/robbery after, 293, 295, 296
stabbing by woman, 253
Till’s murder/racism and, 19, 87–88, 89
as womanizer/influence on Ali, 30, 165, 253, 416, 418, 436
work, 7, 8, 9–10, 23
See also Grady, Odessa Lee (“Bird”)
Clay, Cassius Marcellus, Sr. (“Cash”) and Odessa
after Olympics, 72
Ali-Foreman fight and, 380
Ali’s training camp and, 352–53, 354
Belinda Boyd and, 253
domestic violence and, 29–30, 81, 165
on Herbert Muhammad, 197
homes/neighborhood, 9, 10, 11
house Cassius Jr. bought for, 110
meeting, 8
Nation of Islam/sons and, 159, 173
as opposites, 9
separation, 436
This Is Your Life and, 466
traveling to Germany with Ali, 221
wanting Ali to quit boxing, 452, 478
watching sons boxing, 36, 145, 189, 442
wedding/birth of first son, 9–10
Clay, Cassius (Ali’s uncle), 5
Clay, Cassius (cousin of Henry Clay Sr.), 5–6
Clay, Everett, 5
Clay, Henry, Jr., 3–4
Clay, Henry, Sr., 3
Clay, Herman Heaton
background/description, 3, 4, 5–6, 17, 18
racism and, 7, 17–18
Clay, John Henry, 3–4, 5
Clay, Odessa (“Bird”)
Ali’s stance on draft and, 240, 241
on Cassius/biography, 10, 11–12
Marguerite Williams and, 507
stroke/death, 521–22
See also Clay, Cassius Marcellus, Sr. (“Cash”) and Odessa; Grady, Odessa Lee (“Bird”)
Clay, Rudolph Arnett
birth/childhood, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 20–21
boxing and, 36, 39, 51, 76, 145, 315, 354
on brother, 25, 88, 196
brother relationship, 13, 20, 21, 39, 51, 110, 112, 113, 123, 145–46, 151, 169, 176, 177, 183, 190–91, 233, 253–54, 307–8, 353, 354, 358, 359, 376, 393, 430, 433, 437, 465, 478, 520
on childhood, 30
descriptions, 12, 13
father’s domestic violence and, 81
later years, 196, 533, 534
Nation of Islam and, 88, 116, 117–18, 156, 159, 169, 172
new name/nickname, 172
wedding/marriage, 221, 533
Clay, Sonji. See Roi, Sonji/Ali marriage
Clayton, Zack, 395, 400
Cleaver, Eldridge, 160, 216
Coates, Ta-Nehisi, 115
Cole, Nat King, 79
Coleman, J. D. Stetson, 74
CompuBox statistical analysis, 299–300, 545n
Conn, Billy, 149
Connors, Jimmy, 442
Conrad, Harold, 135, 136, 142, 288
Conrad, Joseph, 366, 368
Cooke, Jack Kent, 313
Cooke, Sam, xiii, 145, 152, 153, 157
Cooney, Gerry, 471
Cooper, Henry
background/description, 120, 466
Clay/Ali fights (1963/1966), 121–23, 221
Coopman, Jean-Pierre, 431–32
Corbett, Jim, 464
Cosby, Bill, 292, 295
Cosell, Howard
Ali-Frazier and, 357–58
Ali interview/Elijah Muhammad’s banishment, 266, 269
Ali name and, 225
background/description, 151, 346
Clay/Ali and, 151, 225, 226, 271, 298, 304, 311, 332, 344, 346–47, 375, 407, 410, 431, 433, 434, 448, 464, 465, 466, 467
death, 531
Covington, Hayden C., 232
Coxson, Major Benjamin
Ali and, 285, 286, 307
description/background, 285
murders of Coxson/wife, 355
Cronkite, Walter, 212–13
Crosby, Bing, 62, 315
Crouch, Stanley, 277
Cruz, Celia, 388
Crystal, Billy, 537
CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy), 331
culture
in 1950s, 53
1960s failures, 365, 373
in 1970s, 373, 407–8
changes 1960s, 69, 136
changes late 1960s to 1970s, 277
shifts (time of 1960 Olympics), 63
See also specific aspects
Cutchins, William Sol, 74, 109, 110, 111, 200
Daley, Arthur, 134, 201, 227
Daley, Richard J., 403
D’Amato, Cus, 72, 289–90, 395
Dana, Charles A., 27
Daniel, Dan, 64–65
Daniels, Billy (“The Barber”), 93
Davidson, Gordon
on Bundini Brown, 114
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sp; Clay/Ali and, 72, 73, 109, 119, 177, 217, 222
contracts and, 72, 73, 109
Davis, James, 37
Davis, Mel, 8
Davis, Miles, 69, 315
Davis, Sammy, Jr., 79, 315
Davis, Willie, 245, 247
Dawson, Len, 97
Deford, Frank, 527
DeJohn, Mike, 134
Democratic National Convention, Chicago (1968), 258
Democratic Republic of the Congo, 368
See also Zaire
Dempsey, Jack, 69, 97, 104, 394, 408
Dexter, Pete, 485
Dibble, Gene, 486
Dickey, Charles, 4–5
DiMaggio, Joe, 82, 145
DiNicola, Ron, 530
Dokes, Michael, 453–54
doping scandal, 1960 Olympics, 63
Douglas, William, 325
Drew, Timothy (Noble Drew Ali), 47
Dundee, Angelo
Ali playing pranks on, 333
Ali’s minister claims and, 232
on Clay/Ali, 160, 299, 301, 353, 477, 484
as Clay/Ali’s trainer, 39, 77, 79, 80, 82, 84, 94, 105, 122–23, 130, 137–38, 139, 143, 148, 149, 177, 189, 200, 271, 289, 293–94, 295, 308, 319, 320, 337, 346, 348, 353, 354, 355, 359, 393, 395, 430, 453, 466, 477, 488, 489
death, 531
description/background, 39, 77–78
Ellis-Ali fight and, 329
Fifth Street Gym, Miami, 78, 114, 453, 479
“glove trick” and, 122–23
Dundee, Chris, 78–79, 114, 139
Dundee, Joe, 77–78
Dundee, Johnny, 78
Dunn, Richard, 432, 435–36
Durham, Richard, 182, 275, 279, 421
Durham, Yancey (“Yank”), 302–3, 308
Dylan, Bob, 83, 103, 211, 309, 365, 464
dyslexia
advantages and, 34–35
Clay/Ali and, 33–35, 259
Ebony magazine, 99, 127, 404–5, 431
Ed Sullivan Show, The, 135
Eisenhower, Dwight, 31
Ellis, Jimmy
boxing and, 188, 218, 245, 278, 294, 303, 304, 472
fighting Ali, 37, 271, 326, 328, 329–30, 412
This Is Your Life and, 466
Ellis, Steve, 147, 149
Ellison, Ralph, 4
Eskridge, Chauncey, 287, 323
Esperti, Tony, 79–80
Esquire, 101, 256–57, 258
Ali/cover and, 256–57, 258
Evangelista, Alfredo, 447–49
Evans, Janet, 523
Evanzz, Karl, 165, 277
Evers, Medgar, 123
Fahn, Stanley, 503, 504, 505
Falana, Lola, 410
Falk, Peter, 313
Fard, W. D.
Nation of Islam/beliefs and, 47–48
other names, 47, 158
Farewell to Muhammad Ali (television show/tour), 469, 472–73
Farrakhan, Louis, Minister
Ali and, 177, 244, 268, 461, 529, 537
background/earlier names, 49, 86, 165, 268
Malcolm X and, 179, 180
Nation of Islam and, 165–66, 177, 180, 270, 461, 529