by Jonathan Eig
“White Man’s Heaven Is a Black Man’s Hell, A” song and, 49, 86
Fatsis, Stefan, 214
Faversham, William, Jr.
background/description, 73
Clay/Ali and, 73, 77, 100, 122, 143, 177, 199
See also Louisville Sponsoring Group and Clay/Ali
FBI
Ali and, 138, 139, 157, 174, 181, 191, 195, 208, 229, 232, 237, 249–50, 271, 463
bombings in US, 344
Coxson and, 285
Elijah Muhammad and, 117, 137, 157, 166, 403
Harold Smith embezzlement, 471
Herbert Muhammad and, 170, 195, 197, 209
Liston-Ali fight (May 1965) and, 191
Malcolm X and, xi, 137, 157, 166, 180
Nation of Islam and, 48, 137, 138, 139, 166, 170, 181, 191, 250, 271–72
Top Rank officials/bribery and, 463
Felix, Barney, 146, 149, 410–11
Ferrara, Chickie, 122
Fetchit, Stepin, 176–77, 191
Fields, Eugene Ross (Harold Smith) embezzlement, 471
Fifth Street Gym, Miami, 78–79, 114, 453, 479
Final Call newspaper (Nation of Islam), 529
Finkel, Ben (“Evil Eye”), 79
Fire Next Time, The (Baldwin), 24
Fischer, Carl, 257
Fitzgerald, Ella, 79
Fleeman, Donnie, 80
Fleischer, Moe, 453
Fleischer, Nat, 190
“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee!” slogan, 115
Florio, James J., 501
flying phobia/fear of Clay, 55, 56, 58, 82, 110, 120, 187
Folley, Zora, 93, 233–34
Fonda, Jane, 507
Ford, Gerald, 401, 407, 436
Foreman, George
Ali wanting to fight, 343, 344
Ali’s funeral/burial and, 537
boxing/boxing style and, 342, 343, 361, 370
description/background, 342–43, 361, 371, 384–85
Don King’s party and, 410
Olympics and, 342–43, 381
retirement and, 462, 532
situation in 1974 and, 361
Foreman, George–Ali fight (October 1974)
Ali after, 400–401
Ali taunting Foreman/racism and, 370–71, 381–84, 395
Ali travels to/from, 380–81, 383, 400–401
Ali’s predictions/comments on, 374, 377, 378
boxer’s accommodations/time in Zaire before fight, 384–85
conspiracy theories and, 399–400, 533
fight description, 395–99, 428
finances and, 362, 363, 366, 367, 369, 378, 385–86, 404
Foreman injury/fight postponement and, 387–88, 389, 389–91
freedom/justice and, 362, 363
Mobutu and, 366, 367, 370–71, 372–73, 380, 385–86, 387, 389, 393, 421
morning before fight, 392–93
music festival and, 373, 388
reporters/problems, 389–90
as “rumble in the jungle,” 371
spectators and, 393–94
Zaire/problems and, 366–67, 372, 389
See also King, Don
Forrest, Leon, 403
Foster, Archibald McGhee, 74, 200, 209–10
Foster, Bob, 333
Foster, George, 333
Foxx, Redd, 79, 410
Frank, Barry, 468, 469, 470, 471
Franklin, Aretha, 321
Frazier, Joe
Ali and, 279–84, 282–83, 303, 303–5, 382, 393, 398, 443, 466, 528
Ali/trip to New York, 279–84
Ali’s apology, 528
background, 302
boxing and, 234, 245, 278, 300, 302–3, 342, 343, 370, 421
death, 531
description/nicknames, 278, 303
Olympics (1964), 234, 303
retirement and, 462
statistical analysis of boxing, 300
Frazier, Joe–Ali fight (1975)
Ali mocking Frazier/Frazier’s response, 425–26
Bonventre on Ali/entourage, 422–23, 424
conditions/audience and, 426–27, 428
damage to Ali and, 414, 430
fight description, 427–30
Manila and, 421, 422
planning/finances, 421, 422
Frazier, Joe–Ali fight (January 1974)
description, 358–60
harassment by Ali, 357, 358
televised replay of first match/conflict, 357–58
Frazier, Joe–Ali fight (March 1971)
Ali/day of fight, 314
Ali discussing after, 321–22
Ali on getting punched, 360
Ali refusing medical care, 320
Ali’s prediction, 308, 317
Ali’s training/entourage, 307–8, 310–11, 312
fight description, 315–20
finances, 306–7, 308, 311
Frazier’s fights/rest following, 330, 342–43
hype/boxers on, 306–12
parties before, 313
public changing views on Ali/popularity and, 308–9, 313
retirement talk and, 307, 311
talk of, 35, 278, 280–83, 288, 290, 297, 298
ticket prices/viewers, 308, 313, 315
Frazier, Joe–Ali rematch
Ali wanting, 320, 330, 337, 343, 344
Ali’s training/boxing schedule and, 328–29, 330, 332–33, 334
Frazier, Marvis, 310
Freedom Rides/Riders, 53, 88, 102
Freedom Road (television movie), 469
Freedomways magazine, 250–51
Friedman, Bruce Jay, 313
Frost, David, 381, 529–30
Futch, Eddie, 218, 316, 345, 426, 430
Gallagher, Tommy, 56
Garrett, Sam, 338
Garvey, Marcus, 47
Gibson, Althea, 104
Gilbert, Doug, 208
Gill, Clarence (Clarence X), 177
Giovanni, Nikki, 410
Gleason, Jackie, 189
Godfrey, Arthur, 145
golf demonstration/injury, 344–45
Goodman, Bob, 332–33, 353
Gorgeous George, 82–83, 85, 92
Grady, Abe, 8
Grady, Odessa Lee (“Bird”)
description/background, 8–9
See also Clay, Cassius Marcellus, Sr. (“Cash”) and Odessa; Clay, Odessa (“Bird”)
Grafton, Arthur, 199, 206–7, 208, 210
Graziano, Rocky, 104, 477
Greathouse, Edith, 5
Green, Kent, 40, 41, 42
Green, Lorne, 313
Greensboro, North Carolina sit-in (1959), 53
Gregory, Dick
Ali and, 164–65, 436
background/activism, 118, 127, 164, 250, 436
Griswold, Erwin, 323
Gross, Milton, 227
Guinness, Gloria, 145
Gulatt, Willie, 80
Gumbel, Bryant, 537
Haley, Alex, 91, 203
Halloran, Bob, 212
Hamill, Pete, 313
Hampton, John, 37
Harlan, John M., 323, 324–25
Harris, Gypsy Joe, 304
Harris, Pat, 405
Harvell, Patricia/Miya, 415, 506–7
Hate That Hate Produced, The (documentary/Mike Wallace), 155
Hauser, Thomas, 484–85, 503, 517, 518–19, 527
HBO and Frazier-Ali fight (1975), 426–27
Healing: A Journal of Tolerance and Understanding (Ali and Hauser), 527
Hearns, Thomas, 471
Heart of Darkness (Conrad), 366, 368
Hefner, Hugh, 315
Hemingway, Ernest, 302
Hicks, James, 249
Hirschfield, Richard M.
Ali and, 511–12, 515–16
background/fraud and, 511–12, 516
Hitler, 63, 160, 204
Hoblitzell, Bruce, 71
Hodge, Terry, 37
Hoffman, Dustin, 315
Holmes,
Jake, 489
Holmes, Larry
Ali and, 373, 412–13, 462, 480–81, 489, 532, 533, 537
Ali fight (1980), 479, 486–89
boxing/background, 462, 473, 480–81
learning from Ali, 480–81
Holyfield, Evander, 523
Hoover, J. Edgar, xi, 170, 197, 239, 249, 250
Hope, Bob, 378
Horn, Huston, 130
Houston, Alice Kean, 11
Howard, Frank, 482
Hudson, Allen (“Junebug”), 56–58
Hughes, Langston, 251
Humphrey, Hubert, 315
Hunsaker, Tunney, 75–76, 140
I Am the Greatest! (album), 124–27
Ingraham, Joe, 248–49
Inoki, Antonio
Ali fight and, 432, 434, 436, 437–39
rules/Inoki lawsuit, 439
Inter-Continental Promotions, 130, 161, 162, 174–75
Iran hostage crisis, 475
Izenberg, Jerry, 194, 295
Jace, Cornelius (aka James Cornelius, Cornelius James), 495–96
Jack Paar Show, 125
Jackson, Edward W., 215
Jackson, Jesse
Ali and, 133, 278, 292, 293, 294, 295, 503, 537
description, 292
presidential race/Ali and, 503
on segregation, 159–60
Jackson, Michael, 506
Jawish, Gary, 51
Jeffersons (television), 408
Jennings, Rose, 195, 197, 373, 387
Jessel, George, 145
Jet magazine, 19, 99, 157
Joel, Billy, 461
Johansson, Ingemar, 80–81, 90
John XXIII, Pope, 62
Johnson, Alonzo, 83
Johnson, Amos, 50, 65–66
Johnson, Bennett, 90
Johnson, Bette, 58
Johnson, Booker, 354
Johnson, Chip, 145
Johnson, Jack
boxing, 27–28, 76, 191, 492–93
image/race and, 27–28, 97, 103
Johnson, Leroy, 288–89
Johnson, Lyman, 32, 159
Johnson, Lyndon B., 211, 231, 245, 343
Jones, Alberta, 72
Jones, Cody, 268
Jones, Doug, 99, 101, 103, 104–6, 120, 224
Journal of the American Medical Association, 501
Kalbfleisch, Charles, 29
Kaplan, Hank, 52, 202–3
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Alcindor, Lew), 245, 248
Kassel, Bob, 288
Katz, Mike, 435
Kazan, Elia, 313
Keaton, Diane, 315
Kefauver, Estes, 130
Kempton, Murray, 144
Kennedy, Caroline, 442
Kennedy, Ethel, 315
Kennedy, John F.
assassination and, xi, 132, 136, 202
Malcolm X on, xi, 136, 368
as presidential nominee/president, 69, 79, 107, 124, 127
Kennedy, Robert F., 257–58
Kennedy, Ted, 315, 353–54
Khalilah. See Boyd, Belinda
Khayat, Ed, 288
Khomeini, Ruhollah, Ayatollah, 475, 510
Kilroy, Gene
after working with Ali, 511, 537
on Ali, 301, 364, 388
Ali/as Ali’s business manager and, 286, 287, 288, 301, 335–36, 353–54, 359, 379, 400, 407, 436, 455, 460–61, 489, 511, 512
background, 286
Kim, Duk Koo, 500–501
Kindred, Dave, 374, 405–6, 502, 515, 516
King, B. B., 373, 388, 410
King, Coretta Scott, 292
King, Don
assault of, 495
background, 337, 338
boxing and, 343
descriptions/character, 337–39, 366, 389–90, 409, 410, 478, 481, 491, 492
FBI and, 366
killing man/prison and, 338, 339
relating to black boxers, 340–41
King, Don and Ali
on Ali, 454–55
Ali on, 470
Ali post-boxing and, 502, 514
Ali’s funeral/burial, 537
boxing exhibition for hospital, 338–39
cash and, 339–41
conflict of interest, 468
Elijah Muhammad and, 341–42
Festival in Zaire/promotion and, 371–72, 379, 385, 386
fights/King making money and, 346, 421, 430, 436, 447, 478, 481, 490, 492
Foreman fight/Rumble in the Jungle and, 361–63, 366, 367, 371–72, 378, 385, 389–91
Herbert Muhammad and, 338, 339, 407, 410
King’s actions to keep Ali, 410
King’s trial judge and, 338
meeting, 338
Phenner’s lawsuit against King, 491
King, George, 38
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
activism, 46, 88, 107, 123–24, 159–60, 164, 230–31, 237, 239, 249, 294, 538
Ali and, 174, 237, 257
assassination, 257–58, 455
criticism of, 102, 124
FBI and, 174, 237, 239, 249
March on Washington (1963), 107, 123–24
Nation of Islam and, 102, 124, 159–60
Vietnam War and, 230–31, 237, 239, 249
King, Rodney, 528
Kirkland, Richard (“Pee Wee”), 292
Knievel, Evel, 442, 485
Kolb, Larry
Ali and, 486, 495, 499–500, 502, 503–4, 510, 513, 514, 516
Pakistan video/bin Laden and, 514
Kram, Mark, 338, 406, 444
Krattenmaker, Thomas, 323–24, 325
Krim, Arthur, 245
Kristofferson, Kris, 469
Ku Klux Klan, 18
Kupcinet, Irv, 179
Kwame Nkrumah, 168–69
LaMotta, Jake, 141
Lancaster, Burt, 307
Langford, Sam, 92
Lavorante, Alejandro, 93
Lee, Spike, 382
Leifer, Neil, 336–37
Lemmon, Jack, 507
Lennon, John, 136
Leopold II, King, 368
Lewis, Alvin Blue, 333
Lewis, Jerry, 125
Lewis, Joe E., 145
Liberace, 125
Liebling, A. J., 76, 92, 115
Lindsay, John, 315
Lipsyte, Robert, 271, 519
Liston, Geraldine, 188, 191–92, 310
Liston, Sonny
Beatles and, 134
boxing background/descriptions, x, xii–xiii, 95, 97, 106–7, 120, 121, 129, 132, 187, 191, 245, 410, 428
business problems, 130
Clay/Ali mocking/responses, xii–xiii, 101, 108, 120, 127, 128–29, 131, 132, 142–44, 357
Clay/Ali wanting to fight, x, 95, 96, 102, 106, 109, 119, 120
confrontations with Clay/Ali, 128–29, 131
death, 310
Liston, Sonny–Ali fight (May 1965)
Ali/entourage travels to, 183–87
FBI and, 191
fight description, xiii, xv, 189–91, 219, 395
preparation/before fight, xii, 183
rumors/questions on, 188, 191–92
ticket price/attendance and, 187–88, 189
venue/change in venue, 187
Liston, Sonny–Ali planned fight (November 1964)
Ali’s illness/fight cancellation, 177–78
boxers training/preparation, 175–76
finances and, 174–75
Liston, Sonny–Clay fight (February 1964)
Clay/finances and, 130
Clay following win, 150, 151, 383
Clay’s vision problems and, 148, 149, 151
fight description, 146–50, 219
Malcolm X on, 138–39
Nation of Islam/Clay and, 142
plans for, 123, 129–30, 132
predictions on, 134, 141, 142, 144, 149
preparations by both, 140–41
rematch clause and, 161–62
rumors/questions on, 150–51, 161–62
/> ticket prices/audience, 141, 144–45
Little Africa, Louisville neighborhood, 10–11, 30
Little, Earl/wife, 115
Little, Malcolm. See Malcolm X
Little Red bus, 130–31, 183–84, 187
Little Rock Nine, 32
Logan, George, 93, 113
Lois, George, 256–57
Lomax, Charles, 468–69
Los Angeles Times, 94, 215
Louis, Joe
Ali and, 366, 493
Ali comparisons and, 491, 492–93
Beatles and, 135
boxing/celebrity and, xiii, 26–27, 77, 148, 150, 217, 220, 245, 348, 352, 378, 408, 442
Clay/Ali and Nation of Islam, 159
criticism of Ali, 224
death/legacy, 492–93
health issues, 466, 491
image and, 26–27
Louis X. See Farrakhan, Louis, Minister
Louisville Courier-Journal, 5, 15, 38–39, 74, 253
Louisville Defender, 20, 159, 249
Louisville neighborhoods descriptions, 10–11
Louisville Sponsoring Group and Clay/Ali
becoming professional/deal, 73–75, 76–77
Clay as entertainer and, 101, 109–10, 119, 125–27
Clay’s connection to Nation of Islam and, 119, 125, 161, 209–10
finances (by end of 1962), 100
future plans and, 100–101
Liston fights and, 130, 145, 162, 174–75
members, 73–74
military service and, 217, 245
new contract discussions and, 198–201
relationship and, 74, 199, 468, 537
relationship end, 207–10, 222
Louisville Times, 74, 80, 118
Lumumba, Patrice, 368
Lyle, Ron, 411–12, 418
McAlinden, Danny, 315
McClinton, Curtis, 245, 247–48
McClure, Wilbert (“Skeeter”), 44–45
MacDonald, William B., 141–42
Machen, Eddie, 294
Maddox, Lester, 289
Madigan, Tony, 41–43, 50, 65
magic tricks and Ali, 390, 401, 461, 499, 502, 517, 521, 527
Mailer, Norman, 303, 307, 313, 316, 320, 367, 384, 389–90
Main Bout, Inc., 207, 208–9, 215, 245, 246
Makeba, Miriam, 388
Malachi, Dora Jean, 73
Malcolm X
admirers/popularity, 152, 164, 165–66
background/descriptions, 115, 136
Clay/Ali relationship after break, 166, 167–68, 169, 179–80, 181, 194
Clay/Ali relationship and, xi, xiii, 104, 116, 136–37, 142, 145, 152–53, 154, 155, 157–59
family Miami vacation and, 136–37
FBI and, xi, 137, 157, 166, 180
leaving Nation of Islam/following activism, 157, 165–66, 166–67
Middle East/African travels and belief changes, 166–67
murder rumors/murder, xi, 166, 179, 180, 181, 406
name changes, 115–16, 166
Nation of Islam/Elijah Muhammad and, x–xi, 115–17, 124, 136–37, 138, 152, 153, 156, 158–59, 166, 368, 380
Malitz, Mike, 209
Mancini, Ray (“Boom Boom”), 500
Mandela, Nelson, 337