When did Muhammad Ali changed his name?

The boxing legend’s conversion to Islam happened around 1964. After making the decision to convert, Ali was allowed to keep the name he had earned during his amateur boxing days – Cassius Clay. However, he had to submit to a name change to avoid offending the Muslim community. Thus, he adopted the name Muhammad Ali.

When did Muhammad Ali change his name to Cassius Clay

Born Cassius Marcellus Clay on January 17th, 1942, Cassius Clay’s parents named him after the Roman general and politician, Cassius Marcellus. After his father died when he was 12, Clay decided to use his middle name as his first. From an early age, Clay expressed an interest in boxing, and after watching a match between Sonny Liston and Floyd Patterson, he decided to train to be a boxer. His mother didn’t support his boxing career

When did Muhammad Ali change his name back to Cassius Clay?

On May 26, 1964, Cassius Clay lost his title to Sonny Liston in the “Fight of the Century” at the old “Eternal City” in Rome, Italy. Clay was also fined $5,000 for refusing to be drafted into the U.S. military, after securing a postponement on the grounds of his religious beliefs, which stated that he was a member of the Jehovah’s Witness faith. Clay returned to the United States and adopted a

When did Muhammad Ali change his name to Cassius Clay?

The name change occurred in 1964, when Muhammad Ali (or Cassius Clay, as he was known prior to conversion to Islam) won the gold medal for boxing in the light welterweight division at the Olympic Games in Rome, Italy. The outspoken Ali lost the title bout after refusing to step up to Sonny Liston in the “Fight of the Century” and was subsequently convicted of violating the United States’s “Unpatriotic” clause in the draft.

When did Muhammad Ali change his name back to Cassius X?

From 1964 to 1966, Ali adopted the name Cassius X after he refused to step into the ring for his first fight with Sonny Liston when told to change his name to Cassius Clay. After he lost the bout, Ali would return to his birth name, but he didn’t like it. Ali would later explain he named himself X for the unknown, but he also called himself the “Black Superman”, and by the end of his career, he would refer to himself