Muhammad Ali ya shahara wajen masu sharhi akan dambe da masana tarihi a matsayin babban kwararren 'dan dambe na kowane lokaci. Mujallar Dambe ta The Ring ta sa masa suna na daya a cikin matsayi na manyan masu nauyi daga kowane zamani a shekarar 1988. A cikin shekarar 1999, Kamfanin Associated Press ya zaɓi Ali a matsayin lambar babban nauyi na karni na 20. A shekara 1999, an nada Ali babban dan dambe na biyu mafi girma a tarihi, pound for pound, ta ESPN ; ta baya kawai nauyi mai nauyi da matsakaicin nauyi Sugar Ray Robinson . A watan Disambar 2007, ESPN ta jera Ali a matsayi na biyu a cikin zaɓin manyan masu nauyi na kowane lokaci, bayan Joe Louis . An shigar da shi cikin Babban Dandalin Dambe na Duniya a cikin aji na farko na 1990.

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Clay ya fara wasansa na ƙwararru a ranar 29 ga Oktoba, 1960, inda ya ci nasara a kan yanke shawara zagaye shida akan Tunney Hunsaker . Daga lokacin har zuwa ƙarshen 1963, Clay ya tara rikodin 19 - 0 tare da nasara 15 ta bugun bugawa. Ya doke 'yan damben da suka hada da Tony Esperti, Jim Robinson, Donnie Fleeman, Alonzo Johnson, George Logan, Willi Besmanoff, LaMar Clark, Doug Jones da Henry Cooper . Clay kuma ya doke tsohon mai horar da shi kuma tsohon dan dambe Archie Moore a wasan shekarar1962.

Waɗannan yaƙe -yaƙe na farko ba marasa gwaji bane. Sonny Banks da Cooper sun kayar da Clay. A cikin gwagwarmayar Cooper, ƙugiya ta hagu ta mamaye Clay a ƙarshen zagaye na huɗu, kuma yana da ɗaci ya tashi a ƙidaya uku. Koyaya, zagayen ya ƙare lokacin da ya tashi, kuma ya murmure tsakanin zagaye, yana ci gaba da cin nasara a zagaye na 5 da aka yi hasashe saboda tsananin cutan Cooper. Yaƙi da Doug Jones a ranar 13 ga watan hekarar Maris, 1963 shine mafi girman gwagwarmayar Clay yayin wannan shimfida. Lambobi biyu da uku masu fafatawa da masu nauyi , bi da bi, Clay da Jones sun yi fafatawa a turken gidan Jones a Madison Square Garden na New York. Jones ya firgita Clay a zagaye na farko, kuma shawarar baki ɗaya ga Clay ta gaishe da boos da ruwan tarkace da aka jefa cikin zobe. Kallon TV mai rufewa, zakara mai nauyi Sonny Liston ya yi biris da cewa idan ya yi yaƙi da Clay za a iya kulle shi don kisan kai. Daga baya mujallar The Ring ta sanya wa wannan fada suna "Yaƙin Shekara".