Signed b & w photograph of Muhammad Ali with the Beatles at 5th Street Gym, Miami Beach, Florida, 18th February 1964, signed 'Cassius Clay', photo
£700 - £1,000
Signed b & w photograph of Muhammad Ali with the Beatles at 5th Street Gym, Miami Beach, Florida, 18th February 1964, signed 'Cassius Clay', photograph showing the Beatles on their first US tour meeting Ali (then 22-year-old Cassius Clay) preparing for his Heavyweight Championship fight against Sonny Liston, signed in black marker pen and mounted above a KO Collectibles Peter Morkovin signed COA, photo 39 by 48cm., framed and glazed, 81 by 67cm. overall This extremely rare and highly collectable signed photograph is one of the last signatures given under Ali's former name. Less than three weeks later, he denounced the name Cassius Clay and declared that he would from then onwards be known as Muhammad Ali, the name given to him by his mentor Elijah Muhammad. Clay defeated Sonny Liston in the seventh round of their first meeting in Miami Beach, Florida on 25th February 1964. Ali went on to beat Liston again with a first round knockout in Lewiston, Maine, May 1965.