Muhammad Ali

The Greatest. Fighting style Ali was best known for his fighting style which he described as “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee“. His movement is often described as a dance; some go so far as to call it beautiful.[attribution needed] Throughout his career Ali made a name for himself with great handspeed, as well as fast feet and taunting tactics. While Ali was renowned for his fast, sharp out-fighting style, he also had a great chin, and displayed a great heart and ability to take a punch in his 1974 fight against George Foreman in Zaire, called the Rumble in the Jungle. Early life Muhammad Ali was born on January 17, 1942. His father, Clay Sr., painted billboards and signs, and his mother, Odessa Grady Clay, was a household domestic. Although Clay Sr. was a Methodist, he allowed Odessa to bring up both Clay boys as Baptists.[2] Ali voluntarily dropped out of Louisville Central High in the Spring of 1958 and although school records do not explain the reason for his withdraw