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Cassius Clay Research Paper

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Cassius Clay was well known for being the best boxer of all time. Three years after he retired he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder in which cells in a part of the brain that controls movement begin to die. As result, patients slow down, lose coordination, and tremble. Cassius clay was born in Louisville, Kentucky on January 17th, 1942. At the age of twelve, he started boxing. At the age of eighteen, he won a gold medal in the light heavyweight division at the 1960 summer Olympics in Rome. At the age of twenty-two in 1964, he won WBA and WBC heavyweight titles. In 1964 Clay converted Islam and changed his “slave name” to Muhammad Ali. At the age of thirty-nine, with sixty-one fights

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