Ali Praying to Allah

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A scoop for Red Grandy which his own newspaper failed to publish, despite its news value at the time, the young boxer Cassius Clay meditated in his corner before his heavyweight title fight with German Karl Mildenburger, shortly after he had announced his conversion to Islam. Ali's trainer Angelo Dundee and heavyweight Ingemar Johansson are at the left.

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