Uploaded March 2014 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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To commemorate the 50th anniversary of legendary boxer Cassius Clay changing his name to Muhammad Ali, we bring you this video, in which he describes his reactions to people calling him by his previous name.

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