Muhammad Ali stands over Sonny Liston during their bout in Maine. Ali won the fight with a first round knock-out to claim the heavyweight champion title.Getty Images
FILE – In this May 25, 1965 file photo, heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali stands over fallen challenger Sonny Liston in Lewiston, Maine. He is now so much a part…AP
US former heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali gives a punch in front of photographers at hotel Belvedere in Davos 28 January 2006. AFP PHOTO ERIC FEFERBERG (Photo credit should read…Getty Images
Muhammad Ali (left) and George Foreman in a bout that came to be known as the “Rumble in the Jungle.”Getty Images
Muhammad Ali during a press conference after the heavyweight world championship where he knocked out George Foreman.Getty Images
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Muhammad Ali rests during training for the world heavyweight title fight against fellow American Sonny Liston.Getty Images
Muhammad Ali flies around the ring after beating Sonny Liston in the seventh round of the World Heavyweight Title bout in Miami Beach, Florida.Getty Images
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27th May 1963: American Heavyweight boxer Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) lying on his hotel bed in London. He holds up five fingers in a prediction of how many rounds…Getty Images
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American Heavyweight boxer Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali), training in his gym, 21st May 1965. (Photo by Harry Benson/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)Getty Images
Muhammad Ali holds the torch before lighting the Olympic Flame during the Opening Ceremony of the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia.Getty Images
The winners of the 1960 Olympic medals for light heavyweight boxing in Rome: Muhammad Ali (center), gold; Zbigniew Pietrzykowski of Poland (right), silver; and Giulio Saraudi (Italy) and Anthony Madigan (Australia), joint bronze.Getty Images
Muhammad Ali at 34 Tavistock Crescent in Notting Hill, London.Getty Images
Muhammad Ali with British pop group The Beatles, meeting the press in New York during an American tour.Getty Images
Former President Bill Clinton and Muhammad Ali (right) at the National Italian American Foundation 25th Anniversary Awards Gala Dinner where Ali and his trainer Angelo Dundee were honored.Getty Images
Clinton presents Ali and his trainer Angelo Dundee (right) with the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) One America award; Ali’s wife, Lonnie, watches on (right).Getty Images
Muhammad Ali with his daughters Laila (at 9 months) and Hanna (at 2 years 5 months)Getty Images
Laila and Muhammad Ali after she defeated Suzy Taylor in two rounds at the Aladdin Casino in Las Vegas.Getty Images
LAS VEGAS, NV – FEBRUARY 18: (EXCLUSIVE COVERAGE) Boxing legend Muhammad Ali (L) and wife Lonnie Ali appear onstage during the Keep Memory Alive foundation’s “Power of Love Gala” celebrating…