The first known boxing photo of Cassius Clay, before his fight against Ronnie O’Keefe on the WAVE-TV amateur boxing program, “Tomorrow’s Champions,” November 11, 1954. Cassius was 12 years old.
“He was already starting to make a name for himself as an amateur, even though he was a kid,” Pat McDonogh, the photo editor of “Picture: Muhammad Ali,” told “Sunday Morning” correspondent Tony Dokoupil.
