Muhammad Ali 21 during an elimination bout following Rocky Marciano's retirement. Mike Tyson broke both records in 1986 when he defeated Trevor Berbick to win the heavyweight title at age 20. Soon after the Liston fight, Clay changed his name to Cassius X, and then later to Muhammad Ali upon converting to Islam and affiliating with the Nation of Islam. Ali then faced a rematch with Liston scheduled for May 1965 in Lewiston, Maine. It had been scheduled for Boston the previous November, but was postponed for six months due to Ali's emergency surgery for a hernia three days before. The fight
Mahershala Ali full first name was "a crazy thing to do considering that we're in Hollywood", although he had never been pressured by managers or agents to change it. What persuaded him to use a shorter version of his first name was being told that his full name was too long to fit on the poster for "The Place Beyond the Pines", and not liking the alternative of "M. Ali" appearing on the poster, Ali changed it. He elaborated in an interview to "Vanity Fair" in October 2016: "I think if you have any desire to be a leading man or to