Data on what the controversial Ali earned during professional career (1960 to 1981) is not available. However we do know that when he refused to serve in the army during the Vietnam War in 1966 because of his religious conviction as a Muslim he was fined $10,000 and banned from professional boxing for more than three years. During the ban, Ali opened a restaurant chain called Champburger and went on a college speaking tour, largely at historically black colleges and universities, to raise support. Joe Frazier, who became Ali’s nemesis when the ban was lifted, supported Ali financially during this period. Before, during, and after his ban Ali remained a consistent critic of conditions facing the disenfranchised in America and U. S. foreign policy. In 1966 he said, “I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong ... They never called me nigger.” Two months later he was convicted of draft dodging and given the maximum sentence for the offense. On June 28, 1971 in Clay v. United States the Supreme Court reversed his conviction with a unanimous decision.
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