This article originally appeared in the October 1963 issue of Esquire. To read every Esquire story ever published, upgrade to All Access. One thing that stuck in my mind, for some reason, was the way ...

Muhammad Ali is one of the most well-known and presumably the greatest boxer of all-time, but the former heavyweight champion of the world was first ...

On October 19, 1810, Green Clay, cousin of former Senator Henry Clay, and Sally Lewis welcomed their son, Cassius Marcellus Clay, into the world. Little did they know how colorful a character their ...

Larry Boeck was a longtime sports journalist for the Louisville Courier-Journal who covered Muhammad Ali for years. He died in 1972. Here is an excerpt from a profile Boeck wrote in 1966. Some people ...

Cassius Marcellus Clay might have been invented by a novelist with a penchant for the improbable. One of the most flamboyant and controversial figures of the antebellum era, Clay was born into ...

Standing beneath an American flag in Rome after going head-to-head with Polish fighter Zbigniew Pietrzykowski, the ...

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Before Muhammad Ali was The Greatest, he was Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., a kid with fast legs and a faster mouth growing up in Louisville, Kentucky, in the 1940s and ‘50s. He didn’t know he could box.

“I am Muhammad Ali, a free name – it means beloved of God, and I insist people use it when people speak to me,” declared the late Muhammad Ali in 1964. Shortly after the 22-year-old knocked-out Sonny ...

This article originally appeared in the October 1963 issue of Esquire. To read every Esquire story ever published, upgrade to All Access. One thing that stuck in my mind, for some reason, was the way ...