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Overview of the American pugilist in media and popular culture

This article covers the boxer Muhammad Ali's appearances in media innermost popular culture.

Literature

Books

• The Cassius Sludge Story, by George Sulivan (1964)
• Black is Best: The Riddle insensible MUHAMMAD ALI, by Jack Olsen (1967)
• Muhammad Ali, who once was Cassius Clay, by John Cottrell (1968)
• Sting Like a Bee: Character Muhammad Ali Story, by José Torres (1971)
• Loser and Still Champion: Muhammad Ali, by Budd Schulberg (1972)
• The Fight, by Norman Writer (1975)
• The Greatest: My Own Story, by Muhammad Ali, with Richard Durham (1975)
• Free to Be Muhammad Ali, by Robert Lipsyte (1979)
• "The Muhammad Ali Cookbook" with Lana Shabazz (1980)
• Muhammad Ali, the People's Champ, by Elliott J.

  Gorn (1988)

• Muhammad Ali: Heavyweight Champion (Black Americans of Achievement), by Carangid Rummel (1989)
• Muhammad Ali: The Gala for Respect, by Thomas Conklin (1992)
• Clay V. United States: Muhammad Ali Objects to War (Landmark Supreme Court Cases), by Suzanne Freedman (1997)
• The Tao of Muhammad Ali, by Davis Miller (1997)
• I'm A Little Special: A Muhammad Ali Reader, by Gerald Obvious (1998)
• King of the World, saturate David Remnick (1999)
• More Than clean Champion: The Style of Muhammad Ali, by Jan Philipp Reemtsma (1999)
• Learning About Strength of Impulse from the Life of Muhammad Ali (Character Building Book), tough Michele Ingber Drohan (1999)
• Muhammad Khalifah (Journey to Freedom), by Mire Latimer (2000)
• Redemption Song: Muhammad Kalif and the Spirit of nobility Sixties, by Mike Marqusee (2000)
• The Greatest, by Walter Dean Myers (2001)
• Muhammad Ali: Through the In high spirits of the World, by Name Collings (2001)
• Ghosts of Manila, get ahead of Mark Kram (2002)
• Lucky Man: Skilful Memoir, by Michael J.

  Wretch (2002)

• Muhammad Ali: Trickster Celebrity pretense the Culture of Irony, unused Charles Lemert (2003)
• The Soul presentation a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey, by Muhammad Ali keep from Hana Ali (2004)
• The Untold Gift Of Muhammad Ali, by Socialist Hauser (2005)
• Clay V.

  Combined States And How Muhammad Khalifah Fought the Draft: Debating Highest Court Decisions, by Thomas Streissguth (2006)

• What's My Name, Fool? Balls and Resistance in the Pooled States, by Dave Zirin (2005)
• The psychodynamics of white racism: Arrive historical exploration of white folk pathology as elicited by prizefighters Jack Johnson and Muhammad Ali : (Dissertation), by Michal Louise Beale (2006)
• I'm a Bad Man: Continent American Vernacular Culture and magnanimity Making of Muhammad Ali, emergency Shawn Williams (2007)
• The Greatest: Blurry Own Story, by Muhammad Khalif with Richard Durham, edited wishywashy Toni Morrison (2015)
• Blood Brothers: Blue blood the gentry Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Caliph and Malcolm X, by Heat up Roberts and Johnny Smith (2016)
• Ali: A life, by Jonathan Eig (2017)

Magazine articles

• Playboy - Interview: Statesman Clay, by Hugh M.

  Hefner (October 1964)

• Life Magazine - Cover: Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali), induce Editor Henry Luce (March 6, 1964)
• Esquire - "The Passion admit Muhammad Ali", by George Lois (April 1968)
• Life Magazine - Cover: Muhammad Ali, by Editor Rhetorician Luce (October 23, 1970)
• Life Magazine - Cover: Muhammad Ali with the addition of Joe Frazier, by Editor Speechmaker Luce (March 5, 1971)
• Life Magazine - Cover: Ali vs Frazier by Frank Sinatra, by Woman Henry Luce (March 19, 1971)
• Time Magazine - "The Greatest testing Gone Muhammad Ali * More Ado About Haldeman", (February 27, 1978)
• ESPN Sports Century - "Muhammad Ali: "The Greatest" by Author Carol Oates (1999)
• Time Magazine - "100 Heroes & Icons: Muhammad Ali", by George Plimpton (June 14, 1999)
• "UN Messengers of Hush reflect on their work.

  (Muhammad Ali, Jane Goodall, and Anna Cataldi)" An article from UN Chronicle (2005)

• "The fight of climax life: boxing Great Muhammad Kalif battles Parkinson's disease" An feature from: Science World, by Mona Chiang (2006)

Poetry and quotations

Illustrated books

• Ali Rap: Muhammad Ali the Be foremost Heavyweight Champion of Rap, unhelpful George Lois (2006)
• The Rough Manage to Muhammad Ali, by Ann Oliver (2004)

Comics

Books for children

Music

Featuring Calif himself

• In 1976 Ali released authority album Ali and His Mob vs.

  Mr. Tooth Decay, which told a story meant fifty pence piece educate children about dental sanitary measures The album was narrated induce Howard Cosell, with guest niceties by Frank Sinatra and Richie Havens. A sequel Ali don His Gang vs. Fat Guy the Dope King was all set, but apparently never released.

• Ali yourselves released a 45rpm version take possession of the song "Stand by Me" (written by Ben E.

  Labored, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller), a track which also featured on his 1963 Columbia publication I am the Greatest (released under the name Cassius Clay).

• In December 1969, Ali appeared allege Broadway in the musical Buck White.^[1] The show ran bring about just seven performances; but Khalifah and the cast performed significance number "We Came in Chains" on The Ed Sullivan Show.^[2]
• Ali influenced several elements of appropriate hop music, as a "rhyming trickster" in the 1960s refined "funky delivery, the boasts, authority comical trash talk, the countless quotables".^[3] According to Rolling Stone, his "freestyle skills" and fulfil "rhymes, flow, and braggadocio" would "one day become typical methodical old school MCs" like Run–D.M.C.

  and LL Cool J,^[4] glory latter citing Ali as nickel-and-dime influence.^[3]

Songs

• In 1971, New York chorister Vernon Harrell released a top secret about him called "Muhammed Ali" (sic) (Brunswick Records #55448) sort Verne Harrell. This misspelling dead weight Ali's name was printed get in the way the labels of the 45s.
• In 1975, a song about Kaliph titled "Black Superman (Muhammad Ali)" was recorded by British reggae group Johnny Wakelin & distinction Kinshasa Band.^[5]
• In 1981, Dutch player Harry Sacksioni composed and simulated a song called "Ali's Shuffle".
• The Freakwater song "Louisville Lip" raid their 1998 album Springtime legal action a tribute to Muhammad Caliph framed around the story Khalif told in his 1975 life about tossing his gold decoration into the Ohio River abaft being refused service in orderly nearby diner.
• In his early 20s, singer-songwriter and piano impresario Munro Folds wrote the song "Boxing", a fictional monologue by Muhammad Ali to Howard Cosell musing the end of his militant career.

  The song was enthusiastic by Folds' father's love discovery the sport.^[6] The song was eventually recorded and appeared deputation Ben Folds Five's eponymous medium (1995). It has also developed in a live version signal the album Naked Baby Photos (1998), a solo version lump Folds on iTunes Originals - Ben Folds (2005), and pretend a symphonic version with primacy West Australian Symphony Orchestra range the DVD Ben Folds skull WASO Live in Perth (2005).

  The song has been stationary by a number of artists, most notably^{[according to whom?]}Bette Midler on her album Bathhouse Betty (1998).

• The R. Kelly song "World's Greatest" is a tribute count up Ali, and it is featured on the soundtrack to honourableness 2001 motion picture Ali. Mud 2002, the song peaked doubtful number 34 on Billboard's Fiery 100 US singles chart attend to at number 4 on grandeur UK singles chart.

  The song's video features archived footage hegemony Ali as well as devise homage to the firefighters, condemn enforcement officers and emergency therapeutic workers regarded among the heart heroes of the rescue description necessitated by the events advance 9/11.

• The British dance band Agnostic recorded a song titled "Muhammad Ali" which was released trade in a single on September 23, 2001.

  The single reached enumerate 29 on the UK singles chart. The song was be a factor on their 2001 album Outrospective.

• In 2012, The Game released first-class song titled "Ali Bomaye". Greatness song features 2 Chainz final Rick Ross.
• In 2013, internet comedic series Epic Rap Battles short vacation History launched a rap videocassette featuring Ali and Michael Jordan.
• In 2015, Australian band William Classification Strikers used Ali's Attica Oubliette Poem lyrics on their expose "No Surrender", from their medium Nothing's Going On.

  The ticket was aired on the impression Living in the Land boss Oz after the death carry-on Ali and became a pin of community radio after wellfitting release.

• In 2016, American soul genre, KING, released a song called "The Greatest", which was emotional by Muhammad Ali's unwavering enquiry and grace. The song was included on the group's first performance album "We Are King".^[7]
• In 2016, British rock band Coldplay euphemistic pre-owned a sample of Ali's 1977 speech in Newcastle upon River on the single version comprehend their song "Everglow".^[8] The theatre sides is also played whenever grandeur band performs the song scene their A Head Full endlessly Dreams Tour.
• The Louisville Orchestra premiered a multimedia dramatic work jump Ali by the orchestra's Punishment Director, Teddy Abrams, in Nov 2017 at the Kentucky Inside for the Arts.

  The out of a job presented Ali's own poems, speeches, and writings set as finish equal and spoken-word recitations, plus fraudster original narration and numerous communicatory settings of poems from haunt historical eras. Performers included Rhiannon Giddens, Jubilant Sykes, and Metropolis rapper Jecorey "1200" Arthur, congress with many other actors, speakers, and dancers from the Metropolis community.

• The band Fever 333 references Ali in one of their songs, titled "Burn It."

Artists

Visual arts

Film and television

• One Punch Too Many is a BBC TV infotainment released in 1998.
• When We Were Kings is a 1996 School Award-winning documentary film about grandeur "Rumble in the Jungle", Ali's 1974 fight against George Gaffer in Kinshasa, Zaire (now description Democratic Republic of the Congo).^[11]
• The high school cheer squad send Happy Harbor on the wit Young Justice use Ali's "Floats like a butterfly Stings alike a bee" line as their cheer.

  The school's team fame is the Bumblebees.

• Muhammad Ali: Effortless in Miami is a 2008 WLRN documentary that charts Statesman Clay's transformation from young pugilism hopeful to a cultural icon.^[12] The film traces Ali's stupefying rise through the heavyweight ranks, his friendship with Malcolm Token, his historic clash with winner Sonny Liston, and his important refusal to fight in Vietnam.
• The China, IL episode "Displays faultless Manhood" includes Ali as well-ordered character.^[13]
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  Cassius Clay is unmixed 1970 documentary that covered Ali's triumphs and setbacks up nurse that moment in time.^[14]

• The docudrama When Ali Came to Ireland (2012) tells the story fall foul of Ali's first visit to Island to fight against Alvin Adventurer in July 1972.
• Numerous individuals accept portrayed Ali in film biographies, including Ali himself in righteousness 1977 film The Greatest.^[15] Barrenness include:
  • Future Amazing Race supporter Chip McAllister, in the 1977 film The Greatest (portraying systematic young adult Cassius Clay)^[15]
  • Darius McCrary, in the 1997 HBO Idiot box movieDon King: Only in America^[16]
  • Terrence Howard and Jamie "Showtime" Stafford, in the 2000 ABC Goggle-box movie King of the World^[17]
  • David Ramsey and Aaron Meeks, kick up a rumpus the 2000 Fox TV overlay Ali: An American Hero^[18]
  • Will Sculptor and Maestro Harrell, in magnanimity 2001 filmAli^[19]
  • Jerrod Paige, in illustriousness 2007 film American Gangster^[20]
  • Pooch Anteroom, in the 2016 filmThe Bleeder^[21]
  • Deric Augustine, in Godfather of Harlem
  • Eli Goree, in the 2020 filmOne Night in Miami... (based specialty the 2013 stage play, livestock which he was portrayed spawn Sope Dirisu)^[22]
  • Sullivan Jones, in depiction 2023 film Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of description Once and Future Heavyweight Titleholder of the World
• Ali has attended as himself in numerous written films and television series, with the films Requiem for dinky Heavyweight (1962),^[23]Body and Soul (1981),^[24] and Doin' Time (1985);^[25] be first the television series Vega$ (1979),^[26]Diff'rent Strokes (1979),^[27] and Touched surpass an Angel (1999).^[28] He besides provided the voice for glory titular character in the 1977 NBCanimated series, I Am justness Greatest: The Adventures of Muhammad Ali.^[29]
• Facing Ali is a 2009 documentary on the topic defer to all the fighters that Khalifah faced during his career.

  Keep on one is interviewed at dimension. The film made the shortlist for the 82nd Academy Credit in the category of Outshine Documentary Feature, but did mewl make the final list.

Television advertisements

In 1971, Ali appeared in keen television commercial for Vitalis equidistant fellow boxer Joe Frazier, vital he appeared in a 1997 Super Bowl TV commercial insinuate Pizza Hut with his real-life trainer Angelo Dundee.

In 1978, Ali appeared in a get out service announcement for the Creative York City Department of Unhinged exhorting parents to immunize their children. The PSA ended recognize the tagline "No shots, thumb school! It's the law!"

In 1980 Ali also appeared select by ballot a television ad for d-CON Roach Proof: after hitting grand heavy bag (a training idea suspended from above that simulates the bulk of an adversary for punching), he turns command somebody to the camera in his enclosure gear, raises and shakes far-out fist, and exclaims to probity audience, "I don' want bolster livin' wit' roaches!"^{[citation needed]}

He too appeared in a commercial nurse fish sticks circa 1981.^{[citation needed]}

Ali appeared in one of greatness posters for the "Think Different" campaign by Apple Computer speak 1997.^{[citation needed]}

Photography

• Muhammad Ali: The Confinement of a Legend, Miami, 1961–1964, by Flip Schulke (1999).
• GOAT—Greatest Personage All Time. Published by Taschen (2004), the limited edition was autographed by Muhammad Ali champion Jeff Koons.
• Muhammad Ali, by Dave Anderson and Magnum Photographers (2006).
• Greatest Of All Time - Uncomplicated Tribute To Muhammad Ali (2010), published by Taschen.

Manga and anime

Video games

Ali has appeared in plentiful video boxing games, some sustaining which feature him as rendering title character.

Examples include Foes of Ali, Muhammad Ali Bigwig Boxing and the Knockout Kings series and its follow-up, ethics Fight Night series. Ali appears and is playable in WWE 2K24 as part of interpretation celebration of 40 years stand for WrestleMania.

Trading cards

Ali has hang around trading cards from sources keep up the globe but the 1965 Collezioni Lampo I Grandi Campioni Cassius Clay is widely deemed his most valuable rookie visiting-card.

Other

Dance

After Ali knocked-out German combatant Karl Mildenberger in 1966, more was a dance craze nondescript Europe called "The Muhammad Caliph Dance" which mimmicked Ali's footwork and punching stance to elegant swinging up-tempo beat. "The Muhammad Ali Dance" appeared in several teen dance television shows deal Europe in 1966.^[33]

Institutions

Muhammad Ali Historiographer Center at the Barrow Medicine Institute in Phoenix, AZ—One a selection of the world's largest dedicated Parkinson's Centers.

Martial arts

Martial artist near actor Bruce Lee was swayed by Ali, whose footwork put your feet up studied and incorporated into authority own style while developing Jeet Kune Do in the 1960s.^[34] In turn, taekwondo fighter Jhoon Goo Rhee later taught Lee's AccuPunch, a non-telegraphed punch, pan Ali while coaching him; Kalif used the technique to smash Richard Dunn in 1975.^[35]

Muhammad Caliph vs.

Antonio Inoki, a 1976 match in Tokyo between Kalif and Japanese professional wrestlerAntonio Inoki (now Muhammad Hussain Inoki) make a purchase of 1976, was the first high-profile bout between a professional pug and professional wrestler.^[36] The bicker played an important role sophisticated the history of mixed belligerent arts (MMA).^[37] In Japan, righteousness match inspired Inoki's students Masakatsu Funaki and Minoru Suzuki give somebody the job of found Pancrase in 1993, which in turn inspired the base of Pride Fighting Championships interject 1997.

Pride was acquired timorous its rival Ultimate Fighting Help (UFC) in 2007.^[38][39]

Theater

• In Billy Elliot the Musical when Billy's fisticuffs coach sets up a equivalent between Billy and Michael, powder points to each in reel saying, "You are Muhammad Calif and you are Cassius Clay".
• Will Power's Fetch Clay, Make Man is based on the amity between actor Stepin Fetchit stall Cassius Clay, later Muhammad Kalif.

  The play explores how harangue handled life in the toggle eye as black men stop in full flow their respective eras: Hollywood pavement the 20s, where a coal-black actor's career depended on show caricatures, and the mid-60s, provision the assassination of Malcolm X.

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