Muhammed+Ali


 * ** ** Tommorws Champion **

Life was hard for me and my family. I lived in a time when black people were treated very badly. We were treated like we weren’t human like we were just animal to make that even worse I was dislecsike. I remember the day when my bike was stolen. I wasn’t very happy, and I was determined to get it back, even if it meant searching every yard in my neighborhood. While searching for my bike, I had walked by a gym and saw men fighting, but then I realized they were boxing. It looked like so much fun I could get all my anger out instead of fighting the kid who stole my bike. That day I ran home so excited and I asked my mom and dad if I could join the gym up the road. I went every single day, a few weeks later when I was just doing my daily routine, a man came up to me and asked if I wanted to be on his show Tomorrows Champions. He said he had been watching me for a few weeks and that I was great. I went home that day so excited. My parents said yes to the idea. “When you’re as great as I am it’s hard to be humble” []

Working hard

For the next few weeks I loved that gym, I fought around my dislicsia I went every single day from six in the morning, till seven in the at night. All of my work paid off when the owner of the show Tomorrows champions said I was great for the show. I was twelve years old and already on TV. He had said he had never seen a kid who works so hard at something. I had asked my parents if I could go on the show they said it would be a great opportunity. I went to the gym where the show took place and it smelt like smoke and sweat but I was too excited to even realize it! When I got in the rink I was a little shaky but I remberd this is what I want I have to do it. I had won the match in a second I vs. a fifteen year old he looked scary but had no skill. My parents were very excited they thought this could be a great opportunity for me and my family.

“ Flout like a butterfly, sting like a bee ”

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Olympics ====When I was eighteen years old I was already going to the Olympics. I had trained very hard and very long. The Olympics was all I had worked for my life. There was no stopping me know. I was on it and ready to win that gold metal. After the Olympics I had gone home that day with a gold medal in my hand that night I never wanted to let the beautiful piece of accomplishment out of my sight. I had remembered that I still live in the U.S.A. and that the times were still very difficult. There was a lot of racism and inequalities. And for that reason, as an African American, I knew if I didn’t keep an eye on my medal it will be stolen. ==== ====One night I went out for dinner with my friends from the Olympics because it is a tradition to eat out the night you get your metal. I felt like a super star. I went to sleep that night feeling amazing. The next day I was flying back to Kentucky and when I got off the airplane, there was a motor cycle gang demanding that I handed my medal over to them. We all got into a huge fight and I got in my car and sped away to a nearby river and through my metal right in so there would be no more fighting. No one is ever going to take away my hard work. ==== “I am the greatest I said that even before I knew I was” []