What youth acomplashments did Muhammad Ali have in school?

Answer 1

It was all one golden gloves championship after the next, of course boxing was not a part of his school's sports curriculum, it was all extra curricular stuff. According to Ali's teachers, he was an incredibly fast learner with photographic memory, however, when it came to academic work he was also ridiculously lazy and barely graduated from High School. Why did I mention that whole memory thing? Because its important regarding the former boxer's biography; Ali's memory, is what helped him take apart his opponents. He only needed to see footage of his opponent's fights once to memorize their patterns, once he had said patterns memorized, he would formulate a strategy to systematically take them apart. Muhamad Ali, is living proof that in the world martial arts (even sports Martial Arts), a sharp mind isn't enough; even afflicted with Parkinson's, Ali has retained his photographic memory. As his mid to late 70's fights showed, a sharp mind in a decaying body, does not work very well in a fight. When he was young, he was impecably conditioned, so his fists could work in tune with his brain. I consider Larry Holmes to in fact be an inferior boxer, because he had neither a photographic memory, nor did he have Ali's impecable conditioning. Again, Ali's mind was lightning fast; once he memorized your pattern, he could always figure you out. That is why Holmes had a hard time with Ali, even though Ali was an "old man," and why he was able to beat Foreman well past his prime. More dangerous than Ali's fists, was his brain. Ali could easily toy and play with his opponents in his youth, and get away with it, because using his photographic memory, he already had their patterns well figured out in his mind, hence his "knack" for predicting what round his opponent would lose. [[User:67.148.120.72|67.148.120.72]]stardingo747