United States · Sport / Boxing. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
"I aint got no quarrel with those Vietcong" and "no Vietcong ever called me nigger". Ali refuses to serve in the United States Army during the Vietnam War as a conscientious objector, because "War is against the teachings of the Holy Quran". Ali is banned from fighting in the United States and forced to accept bouts abroad for most of 1966
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