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Muhammad Ali - Awards And Accomplishments

1959 National Golden Gloves Light Heavyweight Champion
1959 National Amateur Athletic Union champion
1960 National Golden Gloves Light Heavyweight Champion
1960 National Amateur Athletic Union champion
1960 Gold medal, Rome Olympics, light-heavyweight boxing
1964-67 World Heavyweight Champion
1970 Dr. Martin Luther King Memorial Award
1974 Sportsman of the Year, Sports Illustrated
1974 Fighter of the Year, Boxing Writers Association
1974-78 World Heavyweight Champion
1978-79 World Heavyweight Champion
1979 Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, Texas Southern Univesity
1979 Street named after him in Louisville, Kentucky
1985 Recognized for long, meritorious service, World Boxing Association
1987 Elected to Boxing Hall of Fame
1990 Inducted into International Boxing Hall of Fame
1996 Lights Olympic torch, Atlanta
1997 Arthur Ashe Award for Courage, ESPN
1997 Essence Living Legend Award
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2 months ago

ali proven to every body he doesnt have to use his hands to prove that he was a champ he just proven that he was a better man

8 months ago

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about 1 year ago

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about 1 year ago

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about 1 year ago

thx it helped me not fail history

about 1 year ago

he is the good but il knock him out

about 1 year ago

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about 1 year ago

haha I was only alive for some of those fights.

about 1 year ago

There is a misspelling, university in 1979.