DVD Review: Muhammad Ali - Made In Miami - Page 4

There are many gifted athletes but few of them have been able to transcend their sport and achieve the kind of international renown and iconic status that Muhammad Ali has obtained. To black people in America, and people of colour all over the world, he was and is a source of inspiration and pride. From Nelson Mandella watching Ali's fights from his cell on Rodden Island to the children in America, he taught that being black wasn't something to be ashamed of; he will always be more than just another boxer.

Muhammad Ali: Made In Miami shows how that those five or so years in the early sixties that he spent in Miami were pivotal in his becoming the figure he is today. Without Angelo Dundee guiding his early career and the support he garnered from the black community of Miami who knows if the world would have ever known the Muhammad Ali that we've come to know today. For those who only see the shadow of what he once was, crippled by Parkinson's disease, his fancy footwork now reduced to a slow shuffle, and don't understand why old folks like me speak of him with admiration, Muhammad Ali: Made In Miami is the perfect vehicle to introduce you to one of the truly great men of the twentieth century.

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