Product Details
Our current stock of Ali gloves come with an AMA hologram following independent authentication of each glove, and Sports Online and AMA Certificates of Authenticity. Accordingly, authenticity is absolutely assured.
This is the only glove in Australia with such assured authenticity.
Please beware inauthentic Ali memorabilia.
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Interest-Free Instalment Option: 4 monthly payments of $361.25. The item is shipped after the final payment is made.
As George Foreman told the BBC on 6 June, 2016, "Boxing was too small for Muhammad Ali. He was The Greatest. He was the greatest fighter. He was the greatest poet. He was the greatest giver. And he put something beautiful on the earth".
"Wherever there is injustice, and wherever people are afraid to speak up, they will say "It's time to do a Muhammad Ali."
And as his biographer also stated, "He was a beacon of hope. This is a loss to all of the world. There was a spirit about him that people responded to all over the world for decades."
The key image in this piece is taken from the conclusion of the the second Ali-Liston fight, one of the most controversial in boxing history. Midway through the first round, Liston threw a left jab and Ali went over it with a fast right, knocking the former champion down. Liston went down on his back. He rolled over, got to his right knee and then fell on his back again. Many in attendance did not see Ali deliver the punch. The fight quickly descended into chaos. Referee Jersey Joe Walcott, a former World Heavyweight Champion himself, had a hard time getting Ali to go to a neutral corner. Ali initially stood over his fallen opponent, gesturing and yelling at him, "Get up and fight, sucker!" The moment was captured by ringside photographer Neil Leifer in what became one of the most iconic images in sport, chosen as the cover of the Sports Illustrated special issue, "The Century's Greatest Sports Photos." Ali then began prancing around the ring with his arms raised in victory.
He possessed blinding speed, incredible agility and a charisma that took boxing to its most popular heights. By the end of his career he would simply be known as...
“The Greatest”.
Your Ali Glove features:
A genuine, high-quality signature
A Certificate of Authenticity and glove Hologram
Framing with the ‘sports photo of the century’ image of Ali standing over a dazed Sonny Liston.
A limit of 61 in the edition
Approximate framed dimensions 550mm x 1000mm
Guaranteed to be 100% authentic by the tamper-proof hologram on the glove as well as Certificates from Sports Online Memorabilia and the Australian Memorabilia Association's independent authentication service.
NOTE - Glove may be left or right handed
