Cassius Clay vs Sonny Liston

[Bill Paxtom]

Do not listen to bill's bull. The fight was real. Ali at his best.

In your 3rd sentence, you got the young fella's name wrong.

It was Cassius Clay on February 25, 1964.

Check the signature on the contract.............. Cassius Clay.

Ali legally changed his name. Sure it was Clay then but it is Ali now. Check yourself. Don't correct others when you are continuously erroneous.

Hold on, you pulled 'a boner' there Mr. Lineal.

Cassius Clay started calling himself 'Cassius X' first. Stealing that moniker from Malcolm X.

He never legally changed his name at first.

Make a note of it.

Did Ali legally change his name or not? I think you'll find the answer is yes.

His Mother,

Who brought Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. into this World, never accepted it.

That's good enough for me.

Odessa Grady Clay >
"Oh, Cassius has been calling himself all sorts of names since he was little. He wanted to be
Mickey Mantle, then Willie Mays. But he couldn't really play Baseball. He wasn't that good in
Sports, other than Boxing."

"He wanted to be Jack Johnson. Sometimes he wanted to be Jack Dempsey, and other
times it was Floyd Patterson. He always wrote those names on his sweatshirt when he
went to the boxing matches."

"For a while, he was calling himself 'Young Jack Johnson'. I thought that was funny,
because Jack Johnson was really flamboyant, and my son was so reserved and shy."

"But this name changing stuff. Oh it's just a phase to get some publicity. If it doesn't work,
he will come up with another name. But, no matter what, he will always be Cassius to me."