Clay was introduced to Ali by his manager, Herbert Muhammad, when the heavyweight champion still was known as Cassius Marcellus Clay. They married just 41 days later, on Aug. 14, 1964.

Ali married the first two of his four wives — Sonji Roi and Belinda Boyd [later changed to Khalilah Camacho-Ali ] — in Chicago. He was betrothed in 1977 to wife No. 3, Veronica Porsche, in ...