classiuss clay never becomes muhamed ali

... and how will this affect Cassius Clay?

The easy answer would be that without the radical (for the time) teachings of the NoI Ali/Clay might have decided to accept his short stint in the US Army and not had his boxing license suspended and titles stripped. I imagine his service would have been much like the time other famous draftees served. A nice short service on a US Army boxing team in Germany or something like that. But I doubt it. Ali was going to be involved somehow in the anti-war movement, I just can't seem him pulling a Elvis.

If anything I think Ali/Clay wouldn't have been nearly as interesting is he hadn't made the choices that he did. But maybe he wouldn't have become the super a-hole jerk that acted so horrible to Joe Frazier.

But then again Frazier feels that maybe Ali's current suffering is karma getting back at Ali for his past bad actions.
 
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