Ali Print

** UPDATE **
As a result of the current licensing agreement between Muhammad Ali Enterprises (MAE) and CKX, Youth of Honor received notification from CKX that this campaign needed to be restructured to a Limited Edition offering with a firm end date of December 31, 2012. In an effort to reach our campaign's fund raising goals, while adhering to CKXs restrictions, this Rahaman Ali autographed Limited Edition print will now sell for only $150.00 each and be limited to only SIXTY-ONE (61) units. Each print will be numbered and come with a certificate of authenticity.

The quantity of this campaign has each limited edition, Rahaman Ali autographed print representing a bout during Muhammad Ali's professional boxing career. With a record of 56 Wins (KOs 37) and only 5 losses, 'The Greatest' brought boxing fans to their feet just as we hope that this very special print will do to those viewing it in your office or home.

In a very special arrangement, the Youth of Honor organization has partnered with Rahaman Ali to make available a unique collector's piece of one of the world's most recognized athletes - Muhammad Ali. As a child, Rahaman learned to paint while watching his dad (Cassius Clay Sr.) do artwork. With Rahaman's own boxing history in his past, the Youth of Honor team brought an image of his older brother to him in an effort to capture 'The Champ' as a piece of art that people from around the world could proudly display.

With an image size of 14" x 11" the print can easily be framed and displayed in homes, offices, restaurants and 'man caves' alike. If you are a boxing fan, or know one, we encourage you to order your print today. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of the prints will support the Youth of Honor Be A Giant campaign.

Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr., was born on January 17, 1942, in Louisville, Kentucky.The older of two boys, he was named after his father, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Sr. His father painted billboards and signs, and his mother, Odessa Grady Clay, was a household domestic. Although Cassius Sr. was a Methodist, he allowed Odessa to bring up both Cassius and his elder brother Rudolph "Rudy" Clay (later renamed Rahaman Ali) as Baptists. He is a descendant of pre-Civil War era American slaves in the American South, and is predominantly of African-American descent, with some Irish and English ancestry. Clay was first directed toward boxing by the Louisville police officer and boxing coach Joe E. Martin, who encountered the 12-year-old fuming over the theft of his bicycle.However, without Martin's knowledge, Clay began training with Fred Stoner, an African-American trainer working at the local community center. In this way, Clay could make $4 a week on Tomorrow's Champions, a local, weekly TV show that Martin hosted, while benefiting from the coaching of the more experienced Stoner. For the last four years of Clay's amateur career he was trained by legendary boxing cutman Chuck Bodak.

Clay won six Kentucky Golden Gloves titles, two national Golden Gloves titles, an Amateur Athletic Union National Title, and the Light Heavyweight gold medal in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. Clay's amateur record was 100 wins with five losses.

Ali states (in his 1975 autobiography) that he threw his Olympic gold medal into the Ohio River after being refused service at a 'whites-only' restaurant, and fighting with a white gang. Whether this is true is still debated, although he was given a replacement medal at a basketball intermission during the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, where he lit the torch to start the games.

Muhammad Ali defeated every top heavyweight in his era, which has been called the golden age of heavyweight boxing. Ali was named "Fighter of the Year" by Ring Magazine more times than any other fighter, and was involved in more Ring Magazine "Fight of the Year" bouts than any other fighter. He is an inductee into the International Boxing Hall of Fame and holds wins over seven other Hall of Fame inductees. He is one of only three boxers to be named "Sportsman of the Year" by Sports Illustrated.

In 1978, three years before Ali's permanent retirement, the Board of Aldermen in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky voted 6–5 to rename Walnut Street to Muhammad Ali Boulevard. This was controversial at the time, as within a week 12 of the 70 street signs were stolen. Earlier that year, a committee of the Jefferson County Public Schools considered renaming Central High School in his honor, but the motion failed to pass. At any rate, in time, Muhammad Ali Boulevard—and Ali himself—came to be well accepted in his hometown.

In 1993, the Associated Press reported that Ali was tied with Babe Ruth as the most recognized athlete, out of over 800 dead or alive athletes, in America. The study found that over 97% of Americans, over 12-years of age, identified both Ali and Ruth.

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