Muhammad Ali's Tragic Struggles Revealed

When people discuss Muhammad Ali, born Cassius Clay, they often just focus on the positives. And there were a lot of them: Muhammad Ali was a hero for the ages. But the famous boxer wasn't perfect by a long shot. This is about Ali's shortcomings and regrets. Here's the tragic real-life story of Muhammad Ali.

In his heyday, Ali was an author of trash talk. Yet he could scarcely read growing up. Ali had undiagnosed dyslexia, which blighted his childhood. Citing writer Jonathan Eig, NPR noted that one of Ali's classmates considered him, quote, "as dumb as a box of rocks."

Ali avoided failure by cheating his way through school. Even so, he nearly flunked out of high school and finished 376th out of 391, according to CBS.

In adulthood Ali made light of his struggles, quipping,

"I never said I was the smartest, I said I was the greatest."

Jokes aside, Ali's fourth wife, Lonnie, told CBS,

"If you can't read, you feel left out of everything."

That's why she and Ali started Go The Distance, a reading program for black children.

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He battled dyslexia | 0:18
A controversial friendship | 1:07
America's most hated athlete | 2:58
He hated interracial relationships | 4:15
Domestic Abuse | 5:10
His deeply unhappy son | 6:08
'Muhammad Ali Syndrome' | 7:11
An agonizing career end | 8:19
His body became a prison | 9:23
His tragic end | 10:32

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