Eight facts about former boxing champ Muhammad Ali (Reuters)
* Fighting under his given name of Cassius Clay, he won a gold medal in the light heavyweight competition at the 1960 Olympics in Rome. Two biographers, however, said Ali actually lost the medal unintentionally. * His first professional fight was a six-round decision in 1960 over Tunney Hunsaker, whose day job was police chief of Fayetteville, West Virginia.