Boxing Australia

Name	Robbie Harris
Dateofbirth	March 30, 1982
Placeofbirth	Durban, South Africa
Height
Weight
School	Glenwood High School
Ru position
Ru clubyears	2008–20092009–
Ru proclubs	Nottingham RFCLeicester Tigers
Ru provinceyears	2006–2008
Ru province	Natal Sharks
Ru provincecaps	16

Robbie Harris (born 30 March 1982 in Durban, South Africa) is a rugby union . He currently plays for Leicester Tigers in the Guinness Premiership. He previously played for the Natal Sharks in the Currie Cup competition and Nottingham RFC in National Division One.

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Sharks profile

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Name	Muhammad Ali
Nationality	American
Nickname	The GreatestThe ChampThe Louisville Lip
Height
Reach
Weight	Heavyweight
Birth date	January 17, 1942
Birth place	Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Style	Orthodox
Total	61
Wins	56
Ko	37
Losses	5
Draws	0
No contests	0

}} Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.; January 17, 1942) is a former American boxer and three-time World Heavyweight Champion, who is widely considered one of the greatest heavyweight championship boxers. As an amateur, he won a gold medal in the light heavyweight division at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. After turning professional, he went on to become the first boxer to win the lineal heavyweight championship three times.

Originally known as Cassius Clay, Ali changed his name after joining the Nation of Islam in 1964, subsequently converting to Sunni Islam in 1975 and more recently to Sufism. In 1967, Ali refused to be conscripted into the U.S. military, based on his religious beliefs and opposition to the Vietnam War. He was arrested and found guilty on draft evasion charges, stripped of his boxing title, and his boxing license was suspended. He was not imprisoned, but did not fight again for nearly four years while his appeal worked its way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, where it was successful.

Nicknamed "The Greatest", Ali was involved in several historic boxing matches. Notable among these are three with rival Joe Frazier and one with George Foreman, whom he beat by knockout to win the world heavyweight title for the second time. He suffered only five losses (four decisions and one TKO by retirement from the bout) with no draws in his career, while amassing 56 wins (37 knockouts and 19 decisions). Ali was well known for his unorthodox fighting style, which he described as "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee", and employing techniques such as the rope-a-dope. He was also known for his pre-match hype, where he would "trash talk" opponents on television and in person some time before the match, often with rhymes. These personality quips and idioms, along with an unorthodox fighting technique, made him a cultural icon. In later life, Ali developed Parkinson's disease. In 1999, Ali was crowned "Sportsman of the Century" by Sports Illustrated and "Sports Personality of the Century" by the BBC.

Biography

Amateur career and Olympic gold

Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr., was born on January 17, 1942, in Louisville, Kentucky. 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 Rahman 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 white 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 also 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, who continued working with Clay throughout his amateur career.

Under Stoner's guidance, Cassius 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.

Early professional career

After his Olympic triumph, Clay returned to Louisville to begin his professional career. There, on October 29, 1960, he won his first professional fight, a six-round decision over Tunney Hunsaker, who was the police chief of Fayetteville, West Virginia.

Standing tall, at 6-ft, 3-in (1.91 m), Clay had a highly unorthodox style for a heavyweight boxer. Rather than the normal style of carrying the hands high to defend the face, he instead relied on foot speed and quickness to avoid punches, and carried his hands low.

From 1960 to 1963, the young fighter amassed a record of 19–0, with 15 knockouts. He defeated boxers such as Tony Esperti, Jim Robinson, Donnie Fleeman, Alonzo Johnson, George Logan, Willi Besmanoff, Lamar Clark (who had won his previous 40 bouts by knockout), Doug Jones and Henry Cooper.

Clay built a reputation by correctly predicting the round in which he would "finish" several opponents, and by boasting before his triumphs. had Clay's colorful persona and nonstop braggadocio as its sole appeal.

Faversham confronted Clay about his association with Malcolm X (who, at the time, was actually under suspension by the Nation as a result of controversial comments made in the wake of President Kennedy's assassination). While stopping short of admitting he was a member of the Nation, Clay protested the suggested cancellation of the fight. As a compromise, Faversham asked the fighter to delay his announcement about his conversion to Islam until after the fight. The incident is described in the 1975 book The Greatest: My Own Story by Ali (with Richard Durham).

During the weigh-in on the day before the bout, the ever-boastful Clay, who frequently taunted Liston during the buildup by dubbing him "the big ugly bear" (among other things), declared that he would "float like a butterfly and sting like a bee," and, summarizing his strategy for avoiding Liston's assaults, said, "Your hands can't hit what your eyes can't see."

First title fight and aftermath

At the pre-fight weigh-in, Clay's pulse rate was around 120, more than double his norm of 54. Liston, among others, misread this as nervousness. In the opening rounds, Clay's speed kept him away from Liston's powerful head and body shots, as he used his height advantage to beat Liston to the punch with his own lightning-quick jab. And in relation to inter-racial marriage: "No intelligent black man or black woman in his or her right black mind wants white boys and white girls coming to their homes to marry their black sons and daughters."

Appearing shortly thereafter for his scheduled induction into the U.S. Armed Forces on April 28, 1967 in Houston, he refused three times to step forward at the call of his name. An officer warned him he was committing a felony punishable by five years in prison and a fine of $10,000. Once more, Ali refused to budge when his name was called. As a result, he was arrested and on the same day the New York State Athletic Commission suspended his boxing license and stripped him of his title. Other boxing commissions followed suit.

At the trial on June 20, 1967, after only 21 minutes of deliberation, the jury found Ali guilty.

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The Fight of the Century

In 1970, while his case was still on appeal, Ali was allowed to fight again. On August 12, 1970, with the help of Leroy R. Johnson, a Georgia State Senator, he was granted a license to box by the City of Atlanta Athletic Commission. In Atlanta on October 26, 1970, he stopped Jerry Quarry on a cut after three rounds. Shortly after the Quarry fight, the New York State Supreme Court ruled that Ali had been unjustly denied a boxing license. Once again able to fight in New York, he fought Oscar Bonavena at Madison Square Garden in December 1970. After a tough 14 rounds, Ali stopped Bonavena in the 15th, paving the way for a title fight against Joe Frazier, who was himself undefeated.

Ali and Frazier met in the ring on March 8, 1971, at Madison Square Garden. The fight, known as '"The Fight of the Century," was one of the most eagerly anticipated bouts of all time and remains one of the most famous. It featured two skilled, undefeated fighters, both of whom had legitimate claims to the heavyweight crown. Frank Sinatra—unable to acquire a ringside seat—took photos of the match for Life magazine. Legendary boxing announcer Don Dunphy and actor and boxing aficionado Burt Lancaster called the action for the broadcast, which reached millions of people. The fight lived up to the hype, and Frazier punctuated his victory by flooring Ali with a hard, leaping left hook in the 15th and final round. Frazier retained the title on a unanimous decision, dealing Ali his first professional loss.

In 1973, Ali fought Ken Norton, who broke Ali's jaw and won by split decision in 12 rounds. Ali won the rematch, also by split decision, on September 10, 1973, which set up Ali-Frazier II, a nontitle rematch with Joe Frazier, who had already lost his title to George Foreman. The bout was held on January 28, 1974, with Ali winning a unanimous 12-round decision.

The Rumble in the Jungle

In one of the biggest upsets in boxing history, Ali regained his title on October 30, 1974 by defeating champion George Foreman in their bout in Kinshasa, Zaire. Hyped as "The Rumble In The Jungle", the fight was promoted by Don King.

Almost no one, not even Ali's long-time supporter Howard Cosell, gave the former champion a chance of winning. Analysts pointed out that Joe Frazier and Ken Norton had given Ali four tough battles in the ring and won two of them, while Foreman had knocked out both of them in the second round. As a matter of fact, so total was the domination that, in their bout, Foreman had knocked down Frazier an incredible six times in only four minutes and 25 seconds.

During the bout, Ali employed an unexpected strategy. Leading up to the fight, he had declared he was going to "dance" and use his speed to keep away from Foreman and outbox him. However, in the first round, Ali headed straight for the champion and began scoring with a right hand lead, clearly surprising Foreman. Ali caught Foreman nine times in the first round with this technique but failed to knock him out. He then decided to take advantage of the young champion's weakness: staying power. Foreman had won 37 of his 40 bouts by knockout, mostly within three rounds. Eight of his previous bouts didn't go past the second round. Ali saw an opportunity to outlast Foreman, and capitalized on it.

In the second round, the challenger retreated to the ropes—inviting Foreman to hit him, while counterpunching and verbally taunting the younger man. Ali's plan was to enrage Foreman and absorb his best blows to exhaust him mentally and physically. While Foreman threw wide shots to Ali's body, Ali countered with stinging straight punches to Foreman's head. Foreman threw hundreds of punches in seven rounds, but with decreasing technique and potency. Ali's tactic of leaning on the ropes, covering up, and absorbing ineffective body shots was later termed "The Rope-A-Dope".

By the end of the seventh round, Foreman was exhausted. In the eighth round, Ali dropped Foreman with a combination at center ring and Foreman failed to make the count. Against the odds, Ali had regained the title.

The "Rumble in the Jungle" was the subject of a 1996 Academy Award winning documentary film, When We Were Kings. The fight and the events leading up to it are extensively depicted in both John Herzfeld's 1997 docudrama and Michael Mann's 2001 docudrama, Ali.

The Thrilla in Manila

In March 1975, Ali faced Chuck Wepner in a bout that inspired the original Rocky. While it was largely thought that Ali would dominate, Wepner surprised everyone by not only knocking Ali down in the ninth round, but nearly going the distance. Ali eventually stopped Wepner in the fading minutes of the 15th round. Following a title defense with Ron Lyle, in July Ali faced Joe Bugner, winning a 15 round decision.

On October 1, 1975, Ali fought Joe Frazier for the third time. Although widely perceived as a publicity stunt, the match against Inoki would have a long-term detrimental affect on Ali's mobility. Inoki spent much of the fight on the ground trying to damage Ali’s legs, while Ali spent most of the fight dodging the kicks or staying on the ropes. At the end of 15 rounds, the bout was called a draw. Ali's legs, however, were bleeding, leading to an infection. He suffered two blood clots in his legs as well.

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, conducted by Nye Lavalle's Sports Marketing Group, found that over 97% of Americans, over 12-years of age, identified both Ali and Ruth.

He was the recipient of the 1997 Arthur Ashe Courage Award.

In retirement

Ali was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1984, a disease for which those subject to severe head trauma, such as boxers, are many times more susceptible. Despite the disability, he remains a beloved and active public figure. In 1985, he served as a guest referee at the inaugural WrestleMania event. In 1987 he was selected by the California Bicentennial Foundation for the U.S. Constitution to personify the vitality of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights in various high profile activities. Ali rode on a float at the 1988 Tournament of Roses Parade, launching the U.S. Constitution's 200th birthday commemoration. He also published an oral history, by Thomas Hauser, in 1991. That same year Ali traveled to Iraq during the Gulf War and met with Saddam Hussein in an attempt to negotiate the release of American hostages. Ali received a Spirit of America Award calling him the most recognized American in the world. In 1996, he had the honor of lighting the flame at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.

, alongside Interstate 64 on Louisville's riverfront]]

He appeared at the 1998 AFL (Australian Football League) Grand Final, where Anthony Pratt invited him to watch the game. He also greets runners at the start line of the Los Angeles Marathon every year.

In 1999, the BBC produced a special version of its annual BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award ceremony, and Ali was voted their Sports Personality of the Century, receiving more votes than the other four contenders combined. His daughter Laila Ali also became a boxer in 1999, despite her father's earlier comments against female boxing in 1978: "Women are not made to be hit in the breast, and face like that... the body's not made to be punched right here [patting his chest]. Get hit in the breast... hard... and all that."

On September 13, 1999, Ali was named "Kentucky Athlete of the Century" by the Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame in ceremonies at the Galt House East.

on display at the Ali Center]]

In 2001, a biographical film, entitled Ali, was made, directed by Michael Mann, with Will Smith starring as Ali. The film received mixed reviews, with the positives generally attributed to the acting, as Smith and supporting actor Jon Voight earned Academy Award nominations. Prior to making the Ali movie, Will Smith had continually rejected the role of Ali until Muhammad Ali personally requested that he accept the role. According to Smith, the first thing Ali said about the subject to him was: "Man, you're almost pretty enough to play me."

On November 17, 2002, Muhammad Ali went to Afghanistan as "U.N. Messenger of Peace". He was in Kabul for a three-day goodwill mission as a special guest of the United Nations.

On January 8, 2005, Muhammad Ali was presented with the Presidential Citizens Medal by President George W. Bush.

He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom at a White House ceremony on November 9, 2005, and the "Otto Hahn Peace Medal in Gold" of the United Nations Association of Germany (DGVN) in Berlin for his work with the US civil rights movement and the United Nations (December 17, 2005).

embraces Muhammad Ali after presenting him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on November 9, 2005, during ceremonies at the White House.]]

On November 19, 2005 (Ali's 19th wedding anniversary), the $60 million non-profit Muhammad Ali Center opened in downtown Louisville. In addition to displaying his boxing memorabilia, the center focuses on core themes of peace, social responsibility, respect, and personal growth.

According to the Ali Center website, "Since he retired from boxing, Ali has devoted himself to humanitarian endeavors around the globe. He is a devout Muslim, and travels the world over, lending his name and presence to hunger and poverty relief, supporting education efforts of all kinds, promoting adoption and encouraging people to respect and better understand one another. It is estimated that he has helped to provide more than 22 million meals to feed the hungry. Ali travels, on average, more than 200 days per year."

At the FedEx Orange Bowl on January 2, 2007, Ali was an honorary captain for the Louisville Cardinals wearing their white jersey, number 19. Ali was accompanied by golf legend Arnold Palmer, who was the honorary captain for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons, and Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade.

A youth club in Ali's hometown and a species of rose (Rosa ali) have also been named after him. On June 5, 2007, he received an honorary doctorate of humanities at Princeton University's 260th graduation ceremony.

Ali lives in Scottsdale, Arizona with his fourth wife, Yolanda "Lonnie" Ali. They own a house in Berrien Springs, Michigan, which is for sale. On January 9, 2007, they purchased a house in eastern Jefferson County, Kentucky for $1,875,000. Lonnie converted to Islam from Catholicism in her late 20s.

On the 17th of August 2009, it was voted unanimously by the town council of Ennis, Co Clare, Ireland to make Ali the first Freeman of Ennis. Ennis was the birthplace of Ali's great grandfather before he emigrated to the U.S. in the 1860s, before eventually settling in Kentucky. On September 1, 2009, Ali visited the town of Ennis and at a civic reception he received the honour of the freedom of the town.

Ranking in heavyweight history

are preserved in the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History]]

Ali is generally considered to be one of the greatest heavyweights of all time by boxing commentators and historians. Ring Magazine, a prominent boxing magazine, named him number 1 in a 1998 ranking of greatest heavyweights from all eras.

Ali was named the second greatest fighter in boxing history by ESPN.com behind only welterweight and middleweight great Sugar Ray Robinson. In December 2007, ESPN listed Ali second in its choice of the greatest heavyweights of all time, behind Joe Louis.

Personal life

Muhammad Ali has been married four times and has seven daughters and two sons. Ali met his first wife, cocktail waitress Sonji Roi, approximately one month before they married on August 14, 1964. Roi's objections to certain Muslim customs in regard to dress for women contributed to the breakup of their marriage. They divorced on January 10, 1966.

On August 17, 1967, Ali (aged 25) married 17-year old Belinda Boyd. After the wedding, she converted to Islam and changed her name to Khalilah Ali, though she was still called Belinda by old friends and family. They had four children: Maryum (b. 1968), Jamillah and Liban (b. 1970), and Muhammad Ali Jr. (b. 1972).

In 1975, Ali began an affair with Veronica Porsche, an actress and model. By the summer of 1977, Ali's second marriage was over and he had married Veronica. At the time of their marriage, they had a baby girl, Hana, and Veronica was pregnant with their second child. Their second daughter, Laila, was born in December 1977. By 1986, Ali and Veronica were divorced.

On November 19, 1986, Ali married Yolanda Ali. They had been friends since 1964 in Louisville. They have one adopted son, Asaad Amin, who they adopted when Amin was five.

Ali has two other daughters, Miya and Khaliah, from extramarital relationships.

Ali in the media and popular culture

As a world champion boxer and social activist, Ali has been the subject of numerous books, films and other creative works. In 1963, he released an album of spoken word on Columbia Records titled I am the Greatest! He has appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated on 37 different occasions, second only to Michael Jordan. He appeared in the documentary film Black Rodeo (1972) riding both a horse and a bull. His autobiography The Greatest: My Own Story, written with Richard Durham, was published in 1975. In 1977 the book was adapted into a film called The Greatest, in which Ali played himself and Ernest Borgnine played Angelo Dundee. When We Were Kings, a 1996 documentary about the Rumble in the Jungle, won an Academy Award, and the 2001 biopic Ali garnered an Oscar nomination for Will Smith's portrayal of the lead role.

For contributions to the entertainment industry, Muhammed Ali was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard.

Professional boxing record

|- | style="text-align:center;" colspan="8"|56 Wins (37 knockouts, 19 decisions), 5 Losses (4 decisions, 1 retirement), 0 Draws |- style="text-align:center; background:#e3e3e3; background:#e3e3e3;" | style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|Res. | style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|Opponent | style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|Type | style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|Rd., Time | style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|Date | style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|Location | style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|Notes |- style="text-align:center;" | Loss | Trevor Berbick | Decision | 10 | 1981-12-11 | Align=left| Nassau, Bahamas | |- style="text-align:center;" | Loss | Larry Holmes | TKO | 10 | 1980-10-02 | Align=left| Las Vegas, NV | Align=left| |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Leon Spinks | Decision | 15 | 1978-09-15 | Align=left| New Orleans, LA | Align=left| |- style="text-align:center;" | Loss | Leon Spinks | Decision | 15 | 1978-02-15 | Align=left| Las Vegas, NV | Align=left| |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Earnie Shavers | Decision | 15 | 1977-09-29 | Align=left| New York City, NY | Align=left| |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Alfredo Evangelista | Decision | 15 | 1977-05-16 | Align=left| Landover, MD | Align=left| |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Ken Norton | Decision | 15 | 1976-09-28 | Align=left| The Bronx, New York | Align=left| |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Richard Dunn | TKO | 5 | 1976-05-24 | Align=left| Munich, Germany | Align=left| |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Jimmy Young | Decision | 15 | 1976-04-30 | Align=left| Landover, MD | Align=left| |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Jean-Pierre Coopman | KO | 5 | 1976-02-20 | Align=left| San Juan, Puerto Rico | Align=left| |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Joe Frazier | TKO | 14 , 0:59 | 1975-10-01 | Align=left| Quezon City, Philippines | Align=left| |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Joe Bugner | Decision | 15 | 1975-06-30 | Align=left| Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | Align=left| |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Ron Lyle | TKO | 11 | 1975-05-16 | Align=left| Las Vegas, NV | Align=left| |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Chuck Wepner | TKO | 15 , 2:41 | 1975-03-24 | Align=left| Richfield, OH | Align=left| |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | George Foreman | KO | 8 , 2:58 | 1974-10-30 | Align=left| Kinshasa, Zaire | Align=left| |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Joe Frazier | Decision | 12 | 1974-01-28 | Align=left| New York City, NY | Align=left| |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Rudi Lubbers | Decision | 12 | 1973-10-20 | Align=left| Jakarta, Indonesia | |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Ken Norton | Decision | 12 | 1973-09-10 | Align=left| Inglewood, CA | Align=left| |- style="text-align:center;" | Loss | Ken Norton | Decision | 12 | 1973-03-31 | Align=left| San Diego, CA | Align=left| |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Joe Bugner | Decision | 12 | 1973-02-14 | Align=left| Las Vegas, NV | |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Bob Foster | KO | 7 | 1972-11-21 | Align=left| Stateline, NV | Align=left| |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Floyd Patterson | TKO | 7 | 1972-09-20 | Align=left| New York City, NY | Align=left| |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Alvin Lewis | TKO | 11 , 1:15 | 1972-07-19 | Align=left| Dublin, Ireland | |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Jerry Quarry | TKO | 7 , 0:19 | 1972-06-27 | Align=left| Las Vegas, NV | Align=left| |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | George Chuvalo | Decision | 12 | 1972-05-01 | Align=left| Vancouver, Canada | Align=left| |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Mac Foster | Decision | 15 | 1972-04-01 | Align=left| Tokyo, Japan | |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Jürgen Blin | KO | 7 , 2:12 | 1971-12-26 | Align=left| Zurich, Switzerland | |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Buster Mathis | Decision | 12 | 1971-11-17 | Align=left| Houston, TX | Align=left| |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Jimmy Ellis | TKO | 12 , 2:10 | 1971-07-26 | Align=left| Houston, TX | Align=left| |- style="text-align:center;" | Loss | Joe Frazier | Decision | 15 | 1971-03-08 | Align=left| New York City, NY | Align=left| |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Oscar Bonavena | TKO | 15 , 2:03 | 1970-12-07 | Align=left| New York City, NY | Align=left| |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Jerry Quarry | TKO | 3 | 1970-10-26 | Align=left| Atlanta, GA | |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Zora Folley | KO | 7 , 1:48 | 1967-03-22 | Align=left| New York City, NY | Align=left| |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Ernie Terrell | Decision | 15 | 1967-02-06 | Align=left| Houston, TX | Align=left| |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Cleveland Williams | TKO | 3 | 1966-11-14 | Align=left| Houston, TX | Align=left| |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Karl Mildenberger | TKO | 12 | 1966-09-10 | Align=left| Frankfurt, Germany | Align=left| |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Brian London | KO | 3 | 1966-08-06 | Align=left| London, England | Align=left| |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Henry Cooper | TKO | 6 , 1:38 | 1966-05-21 | Align=left| London, England | Align=left| |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | George Chuvalo | Decision | 15 | 1966-03-29 | Align=left| Toronto, Canada | Align=left| |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Floyd Patterson | TKO | 12 , 2:18 | 1965-11-22 | Align=left| Las Vegas, NV | Align=left| |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Sonny Liston | KO | 1 , 2:12 | 1965-05-25 | Align=left| Lewiston, ME | Align=left| |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Sonny Liston | TKO | 7 | 1964-02-25 | Align=left| Miami Beach, FL | Align=left| |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Henry Cooper | TKO | 5 , 2:15 | 1963-06-18 | Align=left| London, England | |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Doug Jones | Decision | 10 | 1963-03-13 | Align=left| New York City, NY | |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Charley Powell | KO | 3, 2:04 | 1963-01-24 | Align=left| Pittsburgh, PA | |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Archie Moore | TKO | 4 , 1:35 | 1962-11-15 | Align=left| Los Angeles, CA | |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Alejandro Lavorante | KO | 5 , 1:48 | 1962-07-20 | Align=left| Los Angeles, CA | |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Billy Daniels | TKO | 7 , 2:21 | 1962-05-19 | Align=left| New York City, NY | |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | George Logan | TKO | 4 , 1:34 | 1962-04-23 | Align=left| New York City, NY | |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Don Warner | TKO | 4, 0:34 | 1962-03-28 | Align=left| Miami Beach, FL | |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Sonny Banks | TKO | 4 , 0:26 | 1962-02-10 | Align=left| New York City, NY | |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Willi Besmanoff | TKO | 7 , 1:55 | 1961-11-29 | Align=left| Louisville, KY | |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Alex Miteff | TKO | 6 , 1:45 | 1961-10-07 | Align=left| Louisville, KY | |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Alonzo Johnson | Decision | 10 | 1961-07-22 | Align=left| Louisville, KY | |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Duke Sabedong | Decision | 10 | 1961-06-26 | Align=left| Las Vegas, NV | |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | LaMar Clark | KO | 2 , 1:27 | 1961-04-19 | Align=left| Louisville, KY | |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Donnie Fleeman | TKO | 7 | 1961-02-21 | Align=left| Miami Beach, FL | |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Jimmy Robinson | KO | 1 , 1:34 | 1961-02-07 | Align=left| Miami Beach, FL | |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Tony Esperti | TKO | 3 , 1:30 | 1961-01-17 | Align=left| Miami Beach, FL | |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Herb Siler | KO | 4 | 1960-12-27 | Align=left| Miami Beach, FL | |- style="text-align:center;" | Win | Tunney Hunsaker | Decision | 6 | 1960-10-29 | Align=left| Louisville, KY |

See also

List of heavyweight boxing champions

List of North American Muslims

List of people from Louisville, Kentucky

List of WBA world champions

List of WBC world champions

Notable boxing families

Conscientious Objector

Notes

References

External links

www.maprc.com Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center (MAPC)

Muhammad Ali: Made in Miami

Cassius Clay: Before He Was Ali - slideshow by Life magazine

Honors and Awards.com - Presidential Citizens Medal

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Name	Josh Farro
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	Joshua Neil Farro
Birth date	September 29, 1987
Birth place	Voorhees, New Jersey, United States
Spouse	Jenna Rice (2010–present)
Genre	Alternative rock, pop punk, indie rock, emo
Instrument	Guitar, vocals, screaming, bass, violin, drums
Occupation	Musician, guitarist, songwriter
Years active	2004–2010(on hiatus, as of 2010)
Associated acts	Paramore, Hayley Williams, Tunnel
Notable instruments	Custom Fender Thinline TelecasterFender Telecaster DeluxeFender StratocasterFender JazzmasterEpiphone Les PaulTaylor Acoustic Guitars

Joshua Neil Farro (born September 29, 1987) is an American rock guitarist and songwriter. He was the lead guitarist and backing vocalist of the alternative rock band Paramore from its inception up until December 2010, and is the brother of Zac Farro, the former drummer of the band.

Paramore

Farro was a founding member and lead guitarist of Paramore from the band's creation in 2004 until 2010. Additionally, he provided backing vocals and was chiefly involved in writing almost all of the band's songs alongside Hayley Williams and Taylor York. On December 18, 2010, Paramore's official website announced that Farro and his brother Zac had decided to leave the band.

Departure and blog controversy

On December 21, a blog appeared online claiming to be an official exit statement from the Farro brothers. The blog was heavily critical of Williams' family, Atlantic Records and Fueled By Ramen. Additionally, it includes an alternate explanation of the band's formation, refuted statements made by the band's website announcement and regarding the brothers' departure, and negated previous claims that dissention amongst the band was healed during the writing of Brand New Eyes.

Despite the band's previous mention of fraudulent blogs regarding the event, Farro recently appeared in a video on YouTube claiming that the blog was genuine. The video has since been removed for reported violations of the website's sexual content policy. Farro re-uploaded the video a few days later.

Personal life

Farro was born in Voorhees, New Jersey on September 29, 1987. He is the second-oldest of his other four siblings. Farro is three quarters Italian. He is a self-taught guitarist, and began playing when he was 13 years old. Josh Farro and Hayley Williams dated from sometime during 2005 to late 2007. On April 3, 2010 Farro married fiancee Jenna Rice in Tennessee, missing the band's Pacific Rim tour to plan the nuptials.

Musical influences

Farro’s musical influences include Jimmy Eat World, Incubus, Underoath, Sunny Day Real Estate, Death Cab for Cutie, John Mayer, James Taylor and Mew.

Side projects

Josh has recorded unreleased solo tracks featuring Zac Farro and Hayley Williams. Tracks include: Plane Crash Dreams with Hayley Williams I Had a Revelation So Much More Worry

Equipment

Guitars Custom Fender Telecaster Thinline

Fender Telecaster Deluxe

Fender Jazzmaster

Fender Stratocaster

Gibson Les Paul

Burns London Double Six 12-string guitar (Studio - bridge of "Brick by Boring Brick")

Taylor Acoustic

Amps

Marshall JCM2000 Dual Super Lead head (Along with a Marshall 1960A Angled 4x12 Cab)

Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier

Marshall JTM 45 (Studio - bridge of "Brick by Boring Brick")

Effects

Digitech Whammy

Ernie Ball Volume Pedal Jr.

Keeley Katana Boost pedal (used on "Turn It Off")

Voo Doo Labs power supply

Misc

References

External links

Tetelestai - Farro's blog on Blogger

Bio at Paramore.net

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Name	Colin Wilson
Caption	Pictured in Cornwall, 1984
Birthdate	June 26, 1931
Birthplace	Leicester, England, UK
Occupation	Author
Nationality	English
Period	1956 to Present
Genre	Non-fiction and fiction
Movement	Angry Young Men
Notableworks	The Outsider
Influences	Bernard Shaw, G. I. Gurdjieff, Friedrich Nietzsche, Edmund Husserl, Abraham Maslow, Alfred North Whitehead, William James, Jean-Paul Sartre
Influenced	Gary Lachman, Robert Anton Wilson
Website	http://www.colinwilsonworld.co.uk/

Colin Henry Wilson (born 26 June 1931 in Leicester), a prolific British writer, first came to prominence as a philosopher and novelist. Wilson has since written widely on true crime, mysticism, and other topics.

Biography

Born and raised in Leicester, England, Wilson left school at 16. He worked in factories and at various occupations, and read in his spare time. Gollancz published the then 24-year-old Wilson's The Outsider in 1956; the work examines the role of the social "outsider" in seminal works of various key literary and cultural figures. These include Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ernest Hemingway, Hermann Hesse, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, William James, T. E. Lawrence, Vaslav Nijinsky and Vincent Van Gogh; Wilson discusses his perception of social alienation in their work. The book became a best-seller and helped popularize existentialism in Britain. Critical praise proved short-lived, however, and Wilson soon faced widespread criticism.

Wilson became associated with the "Angry Young Men" of British literature. He contributed to Declaration, an anthology of manifestos by writers associated with the movement, and wrote a popular paperback sampler, Protest: The Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men. Wilson and his friends Bill Hopkins and Stuart Holroyd, were viewed as a sub-group of the "Angries" - one more concerned with "religious values" than with liberal or socialist politics. Critics on the left swiftly labeled them as fascistic; commentator Kenneth Allsop called them "the law givers".

Life and works after The Outsider

After the initial success of Wilson's first work, critics universally panned Religion and the Rebel (1957). Time magazine published a review, headlined "Scrambled Egghead", that pilloried the book.

Other non-fiction writing

Wilson has written non-fiction books on metaphysical and occult themes. In 1971, he published featuring exegesis on Aleister Crowley, G. I. Gurdjieff, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Kabbalah, primitive magic, Franz Anton Mesmer, Gregor Rasputin, Daniel Dunglas Home, and Paracelsus (among others). He also wrote a markedly unsympathetic biography of Crowley, Aleister Crowley: The Nature of the Beast, and has written biographies on other spiritual and psychological visionaries, including Gurdjieff, C.G. Jung, Wilhelm Reich, Rudolf Steiner, and P.D. Ouspensky.

Originally, Wilson focused on the cultivation of what he called "Faculty X", which he saw as leading to an increased sense of meaning, and on abilities such as telepathy and the awareness of other energies. In his later work he suggests the possibility of life after death and the existence of spirits, which he personally analyzes as an active member of the Ghost Club.

He has also written non-fiction books on crime, ranging from encyclopedias to studies of serial killing. He has an ongoing interest in the life and times of Jack the Ripper and in sex-crime in general.

Fiction

Wilson explored his ideas on human potential and consciousness in fiction, mostly detective fiction or science fiction, including several Cthulhu Mythos pieces.

Like his non-fiction work, much of Wilson's fictional output from Ritual in the Dark (1960) onwards has concerned itself with the psychology of murder — especially that of serial killing. However, he has also written science fiction of a philosophical bent, including the Spider-World series.

In The Strength to Dream (1961) Wilson attacked H.P. Lovecraft as "sick" and as "a bad writer" who had "rejected reality" — but he grudgingly praised Lovecraft's story "The Shadow Out of Time" as capable science-fiction. August Derleth, incensed by Wilson's treatment of Lovecraft in The Strength to Dream, then dared Wilson to write what became The Mind Parasites — to expound his philosophical ideas in the guise of fiction. Wilson also discusses Lovecraft in Order of Assassins (1972) and in the prefatory note to The Philosopher's Stone (1969). His short novel The Return of the Lloigor (1969/1974) also has roots in the Cthulhu Mythos - its central character works on the real book the Voynich Manuscript but discovers it to be a mediaeval Arabic version of the Necronomicon - as does his 2002 novel The Tomb of the Old Ones.

Adaptions

Tobe Hooper directed the film Lifeforce, based on Wilson's novel, The Space Vampires. After its release, Colin Wilson recalled that author John Fowles thought that the film adaptation of Fowles' own novel The Magus was the worst film adaptation of a novel ever. Wilson told Fowles there was now a worse one, the film adaption of his novel Lifeforce.

Bibliography

Note: this bibliography, while extensive, does not list all of Wilson's work. For a complete bibliography see Colin Stanley's Colin Wilson, the first fifty years: an existential bibliography, 1956-2005. Nottingham, UK: Paupers' Press, 2006 (ISBN 0-946650-89-6)

The Outsider (1956)

Religion and the Rebel (1957)

"The Frenchman" (short story, Evening Standard 22 August 1957)

The Age of Defeat (US title The Stature of Man) (1959)

Ritual in the Dark (1960)

Encyclopedia of Murder (with Patricia Pitman, 1961)

Adrift in Soho (1961)

"Watching the Bird" (short story, Evening News 12 September 1961)

"Uncle Tom and the Police Constable" (short story, Evening News 23 October 1961)

"He Could not Fail" (short story, Evening News 29 December 1961)

The Strength to Dream: Literature and the Imagination (1962)

"Uncle and the Lion" (short story, Evening News 28 September 1962)

"Hidden Bruise" (short story, Evening News 3 December 1962)

Origins of the Sexual Impulse (1963)

The World of Violence (US title The Violent World of Hugh Greene) (1963)

Man Without a Shadow (US title The Sex Diary of Gerard Sorme) (1963)

"The Wooden Cubes" (short story, Evening News 27 June 1963)

Rasputin and the Fall of the Romanovs (1964)

Brandy of the Damned (1964; later expanded and reprinted as Chords and Discords/Colin Wilson On Music)

Necessary Doubt (1964)

Beyond the Outsider (1965)

Eagle and Earwig (1965)

Sex and the Intelligent Teenager (1966)

Introduction to the New Existentialism (1966)

The Glass Cage (1966)

The Mind Parasites (1967)

Voyage to a Beginning (1969)

A Casebook of Murder (1969)

Bernard Shaw: A Reassessment (1969)

The Philosopher's Stone (1969) ISBN 978-0-213-17790-4

The Return of the Lloigor (first published 1969 in the anthology Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos; revised separate edition, Village Press, London, 1974).

Poetry and Mysticism (1969; subsequently significantly expanded in 1970)

"The Return of the Lloigor" (short story in Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, edited by August Derleth, 1969; later revised and published as a separate book)

L'amour: The Ways of Love (1970)

The Strange Genius of David Lindsay (with E. H. Visiak and J.B. Pick, 1970)

Strindberg (1970)

The God of the Labyrinth (US title The Hedonists) (1970)

The Killer (US title Lingard) (1970)

(1971)

The Black Room (1971)

Order of Assassins: The Psychology of Murder (1972)

New Pathways in Psychology: Maslow and the Post-Freudian Revolution (1972)

Strange Powers (1973)

"Tree" by Tolkien (1973)

Hermann Hesse (1974)

Wilhelm Reich (1974)

Jorge Luis Borges (1974)

Hesse-Reich-Borges: Three Essays (1974)

Ken Russell: A Director in Search of a Hero (1974)

A Book of Booze (1974)

The Schoolgirl Murder Case (1974)

The Unexplained (1975)

Mysterious Powers (US title They Had Strange Powers) (1975)

The Craft of the Novel (1975)

Enigmas and Mysteries (1975)

The Geller Phenomenon (1975)

The Space Vampires (1976)

Colin Wilson's Men of Mystery (US title Dark Dimensions) (with various authors, 1977)

Mysteries (1978)

Mysteries of the Mind (with Stuart Holroyd, 1978)

The Haunted Man: The Strange Genius of David Lindsay (1979)

"Timeslip" (short story in Aries I, edited by John Grant, 1979)

Science Fiction as Existentialism (1980)

Starseekers (1980)

Frankenstein's Castle: the Right Brain-Door to Wisdom (1980)

The Book of Time, edited by John Grant and Colin Wilson (1980)

The War Against Sleep: The Philosophy of Gurdjieff (1980)

The Directory of Possibilities, edited by Colin Wilson and John Grant (1981)

Poltergeist!: A Study in Destructive Haunting (1981)

Anti-Sartre, with an Essay on Camus (1981)

The Quest for Wilhelm Reich (1981)

The Goblin Universe (with Ted Holiday, 1982)

Access to Inner Worlds: The Story of Brad Absetz (1983)

Encyclopedia of Modern Murder, 1962-82 (1983)

"A Novelization of Events in the Life and Death of Grigori Efimovich Rasputin," in Tales of the Uncanny (Reader's Digest Association, 1983; an abbreviated version of the later The Magician from Siberia)

The Psychic Detectives: The Story of Psychometry and Paranormal Crime Detection (1984)

[A Criminal History of Mankind] (1984), revised and updated (2005)

Lord of the Underworld: Jung and the Twentieth Century (1984)

The Janus Murder Case (1984)

The Bicameral Critic (1985)

The Essential Colin Wilson (1985)

Rudolf Steiner: The Man and His Vision (1985)

Afterlife: An Investigation of the Evidence of Life After Death (1985)

The Personality Surgeon (1985)

An Encyclopedia of Scandal. Edited by Colin Wilson and Donald Seaman (1986)

The Book of Great Mysteries. Edited by Colin Wilson and Dr. Christopher Evans (1986)

An Essay on the 'New' Existentialism (1988)

The Laurel and Hardy Theory of Consciousness (1986)

Spider World: The Tower (1987)

Spider World: The Delta (1987)

Marx Refuted - The Verdict of History, edited by Colin Wilson (with contributions also) and Ronald Duncan, Bath, (UK), (1987), ISBN 0-906798-71-X

Aleister Crowley: The Nature of the Beast (1987)

The Musician as 'Outsider'. (1987)

The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Mysteries (with Damon Wilson, 1987)

Jack the Ripper: Summing Up and Verdict (with Robin Odell, 1987)

Autobiographical Reflections (1988)

(1988)

Beyond the Occult (1988)

The Mammoth Book of True Crime (1988)

The Magician from Siberia (1988)

The Decline and Fall of Leftism (1989)

Written in Blood: A History of Forensic Detection (1989)

Existentially Speaking: Essays on the Philosophy of Literature (1989)

Serial Killers: A Study in the Psychology of Violence (1990)

Spider World: The Magician (1992)

Mozart's Journey to Prague (1992)

The Strange Life of P.D. Ouspensky (1993)

Unsolved Mysteries (with Damon Wilson, 1993)

Outline of the Female Outsider (1994)

A Plague of Murder (1995)

From Atlantis to the Sphinx (1996)

An Extraordinary Man in the Age of Pigmies: Colin Wilson on Henry Miller (1996)

The Atlas of Sacred Places (1997)

Below the Iceberg: Anti-Sartre and Other Essays (reissue with essays on postmodernism, 1998)

The Corpse Garden (1998)

The Books in My Life (1998)

Alien Dawn (1999)

The Devil's Party (US title Rogue Messiahs) (2000)

The Atlantis Blueprint (with Rand Flem-Ath, 2000)

Illustrated True Crime: A Photographic History (2002)

The Tomb of the Old Ones (with John Grant, 2002)

Spider World: Shadowlands (2002)

Dreaming To Some Purpose (2004) - autobiography

World Famous UFOs (2005)

Atlantis and the Kingdom of the Neanderthals (2006)

Crimes of Passion: The Thin Line Between Love and Hate (2006)

The Angry Years: The Rise and Fall of the Angry Young Men (2007)

Manhunters:Criminal Profilers & Their Search for the World's Most Wanted Serial Killers (2007)

'The Death of God' and other plays (edited by Colin Stanley) (2008)

Super Consciousness (2009)

Existential Criticism: selected book reviews (edited by Colin Stanley) (2009)

Unpublished works:

The Anatomy of Human Greatness (non-fiction, written 1964; Maurice Bassett plans to publish this work electronically)

Metamorphosis of the Vampire (fiction, written 1992-94)

Further reading

Bendau, Clifford P. Colin Wilson: The Outsider and Beyond (1979), San Bernardino: Borgo Press ISBN 0-89370-229-3

Dalgleish, Tim The Guerilla Philosopher: Colin Wilson and Existentialism (1993), Nottingham: Paupers' Press ISBN 0-946650-47-0

Dosser, Howard F. Colin Wilson: the bicameral critic: selected shorter writings (1985), Salem: Salem House ISBN 0-88162-047-5

Dossor, Howard F. Colin Wilson: the man and his mind (1990) Shaftesbury, Dorset: Element Books ISBN 1-85230-176-7

Dossor, Howard F. The Philosophy of Colin Wilson: three perspectives (1996), Nottingham: Paupers' Press ISBN 0-946650-58-6

Greenwell, Tom Chepstow Road: a literary comedy in two acts (2002) Nottingham: Paupers' Press ISBN 0-946650-78-0

Lachman, Gary Two essays on Colin Wilson (1994), Nottingham: Paupers' Press ISBN 0-946650-52-7

Moorhouse, John & Newman, Paul Colin Wilson, two essays (1988), Nottingham: Paupers' Press ISBN 0-946650-11-X

Newman, Paul Murder as an Antidote for Boredom: the novels of Laura Del Rivo, Colin Wilson and Bill Hopkins (1996), Nottingham: Paupers' Press ISBN 0-946650-57-8

Robertson, Vaughan Wilson as Mystic(2001), Nottingham: Paupers' Press ISBN 0-946650-74-8

Salwak, Dale (ed) Interviews with Britain's Angry Young Men (1984) San Bernardino: Borgo Press ISBN 0-89370-259-5

Shand, John & Lachman, Gary Colin Wilson as Philosopher (1996), Nottingham: Paupers' Press ISBN 0-946650-59-4

Smalldon, Jeffrey Human Nature Stained: Colin Wilson and the existential study of modern murder (1991) Nottingham: Paupers'Press ISBN 0-946650-28-4

Spurgeon, Brad Colin Wilson: philosopher of optimism, (2006), Manchester: Michael Butterworth ISBN 0-9552672-0-X

Stanley, Colin (ed) Colin Wilson, a celebration: essays and recollections (1988), London: Cecil Woolf ISBN 0-900821-91-4

Stanley, Colin Colin Wilson, the first fifty years: an existential bibliography 1956-2005 (2006) Nottingham: Paupers' Press ISBN 0-946650-89-6

Stanley, Colin Colin Wilson's 'Outsider Cycle': a guide for students (2009). Nottingham: Paupers' Press ISBN 0-946650-96-9

Stanley, Colin 'The Nature of Freedom' and other essays (1990), Nottingham: Paupers' Press ISBN 0-946650-17-9

Tredell, Nicolas The Novels of Colin Wilson (1982) London: Vision Press ISBN 0-85478-035-1

Trowell, Michael Colin Wilson, the positive approach (1990), Nottingham: Paupers' Press ISBN 0-946650-25-X

Weigel, John A Colin Wilson (1975) Boston: Twayne Publishers ISBN 0-8057-1575-4

References

External links

Colin Wilson World - admirer-run site with some Wilson contributions

The Colin Wilson Page - This was the first Colin Wilson site, first set up in 1996. It is no longer available, but is still archived by the Wayback Machine.

Abraxas - Wilson-related journal

The Phenomenology of Excess A multimedia Colin Wilson site, approved by its subject

Audio Interview by William H. Kennedy Sphinx Radio, 9/28/08

Interview by Gary Lachman, Fortean Times, October 2004

Colin Wilson's August 2005 interview @ The New York Times

Creel Commission Interview with Colin Wilson.

The Sons of TC Lethbridge - Colin's collaboration with the prog-rock band 'The Sons of TC Lethbridge'.

Harry Ritchie, 'Look back in wonder', The Guardian (Review section) (Saturday, 12 August 2006)

Entry in The Literary Encyclopedia by Colin Stanley

Colin Wilson interviewed on poetry and the peak experience

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