MUHAMMAD ALI, widely regarded as one the greatest sportsmen of all time, is 70 years old today - in tribute, we've raided the archive and rounded up some of the best content around for you to enjoy.
Read what he had to say about Scousers when talking to ex-Post and ECHO journalist Brian Reade here, absorb an infographic about his career and life here while below you can enjoy some archive photographs of him in action.
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Ali larking around with The Beatles when they meet a week before the fighter's World Heavyweight bout against Sonny Liston
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Ali with Everton fans in Hyde Park ahead of the Blues FA Cup final against Sheffield Wednesday in May 1966 - Ali was in training for his second fight against Henry Cooper
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Ali first met Cooper at Wembley in 1963 when the British fighter stunned him by flooring him in the fourth round
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Ali recovered with the assistance of his trainer Angelo Dundee and inflicted cuts severe enough on Cooper to stop the fight in the next round
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25 February 1964 - Ali beats Sonny Liston to become World Heavyweight Champion for the first time - he officially discarded his 'slave name' Cassius Clay the next day
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Ali training in Hyde Park ahead of his second fight with Henry Cooper at Highbury in 1966
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Again Cooper's susceptibility to cuts cost with the fight stopped in the sixth round
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Ali with esteemed author Norman Mailer whose book 'The Fight' is regarded as the definitive account of the Thriller in Manila and as one of the greatest sports books of all time
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Ali with Angelo Dundee
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In 1967, a still-unbeaten Ali was stripped of his world titles for refusing to be drafted into the US Army to fight in the war in Vietnam
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A US Supreme Court over-turned the ban in 1971 and he made his comeback at Madison Square Garden against Joe Frazier, who beat him on a unanimous decision
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Ali won back the title in 1974 at the age of the 32 by beating George Foreman in Zaire
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He also beat Frazier a year later in Manila
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Ali's final fight was against Trevor Berbick in 1981
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Ali with Angelo Dundee
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Southport photographer John Dawes with boxer Muhammad Ali
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Ali with Lennox Lewis
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Goofing around with Oscar de la Hoya
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Lighting the Olympic flame, Atlanta 1996
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With old sparring partner, the late Sir Henry Cooper in 2009
Over the page, there's some great video footage of him in action as well as the fun and games that ensued when he met The Beatles and Huyton-born Freddie Starr >>>>>>>>>>>
* Are you a big Muhammad Ali fan and collector of memorabilia? If so, we would love to hear from you.- email steve.hanrahan@trinitymirror.
