Legendary Muhammad Ali Gloves Sold For £520,000 At An Auction

The boxing gloves worn by Muhammad Ali when he won his first world heavyweight championship have been sold for £520,000 in New York, then Ali was known as Cassius Clay and he wore them
in 1964 to fight Sonny Liston, winning by a technical knockout when Liston removed to come out of his corner for the seventh round to win his first heavyweight world title, on February 25th, it is going to be fifty years after this fight which was why the gloves were part of Heritage Auctions’ Sports Platinum Night Auction, and the price was posted on their website.


The buyer for these gloves was not identified. Ali had said that he shook up the world, when the next day he announced that he was changing his name to Muhammad Ali and embracing the Islamic faith. The gloves were cut from his wrists by the boxer’s trainer, Angelo Dundee, who kept them until his death in 2012.



However, Ali was stripped of his title in 1967 for refusing to fight in Vietnam, and he had regained it in 1974 from George Foreman and also when he won it a third time in 1978. Chris Ivy who is the auction organizer expected £300,000 during the bidding but he got more than he expected from this unnamed buyer.