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

kiara (keke) » kekevsklo ((at)) live dot com

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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he is the good but il knock him out

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haha I was only alive for some of those fights.

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Stephen » clumsydude ((at)) wowway dot com

There is a misspelling, university in 1979.