Appraisal: Muhammad Ali & Cassius Clay Sr.-signed Books ...

According to the post, Trump claimed that he had sparred with Cassius Clay. Clay was the birth name of professional heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali, who died in 2016.

Elijah Muhammad offers Cassius a new name to secure his allegiance to the Nation of Islam. After the heavyweight champion grows close with Malcolm X, he announces to reporters that he's renounced ...

A records search by USA TODAY Sports indicates Muhammad Ali never legally changed his name from Cassius Clay — and lived in an era when he didn’t have to. Officials in Kentucky, where Ali was ...

Unfortunately, the media continued calling him by the name Cassius Clay well into the '60s. And it wasn't just the press — Ali's opponents would also refer to him by his former name.

The world knows him now as Muhammad Ali, but in March 1964, he was still Cassius Clay. That’s when “The Greatest” — born this week on Jan. 17 — insisted Chicago reporters call him by his ...

A records search by USA TODAY Sports indicates Muhammad Ali never legally changed his name from Cassius Clay — and lived in an era when he didn’t have to.