This Howard Bingham print, Ali vs Liston II, 1965, is one of four gelatin silver prints that come with the GOAT Champ’s Edition. Each print is signed by Howard Bingham and Muhammad Ali. Copyright: Howard Bingham, GOAT / TASCHEN

When Cassius Clay was twelve years old, he experienced his first personal injustice when his bike was stolen, and from that day on he spent his formative years training to fend for himself and prevent further injustices which would become a theme in his life’s work. After years of training and hard work and dedication, Muhammad Ali won his first Olympic Gold Medal at the age of eighteen shortly after his high school graduation. His boisterous personality and larger-than-life spirit bolstered his name and image at the Olympic games and then later into international fame. The future three-time Heavyweight World Champion was not only interested in training and sore muscles, but in Ali’s own words, “boxing was just a means to introduce me to the world,” and soon the man became an international sensation and the posterboy for American strength, pride, and prowess. Throughout the rest of Muhammad’s life he fought for racial equality as one of the most influential black men in the world, protested the war in Vietnam and its injustices, and would go on to start the Muhammad Ali Parkinson’s Center after he was diagnosed with the degenerative disorder.

Greatest Of All Time: A Tribute To Muhammad Ali available at Taschen.