Muhammad Ali Through the Years
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Eighty-five pound Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr., later known as Muhammad Ali, is shown posing at twelve, prior to his amateur ring debut in 1954, a three minute, three round split decision over another novice named Ronnie O'Keefe, in Louisville, Kentucky.