Arnold Hano’s book Muhammad Ali: The Champion is an “ok” book for all fans of sports especially boxing. Essentially the book is about the challenges that Cassius Clay faced when he was growing up to his professional boxing careers when he is named Muhammad Ali . The beginning of the book starts with Cassius Clay’s bike being stolen, Cassius was filled with anger and Joe Martin suggested Cassius to let his anger out by boxing. Ever since Cassius’ bike was stolen he never stopped boxing ever since.
Overall, I gave this book three out of five stars because the book was one of those typical biographies about a famous sports athlete. The book included information on the problems during childhood and the major events in his professional years. This book would be exponentially better if Arnold Hano the author would include in depth information on what was exactly was going on in Ali’s head during the major events during his life. The morals of the story is to never give up, and to use your haters as your motivaries.