| He proclaimed "I shook up the world" | 46 |
| He opened the 1996 Olympics | 27 |
| He once had feet of Clay | 24 |
| He KO'd Quarry, 10/26/70 | 28 |
| He KO'd many men | 20 |
| He KO'd Foreman | 19 |
| He knocked out Liston in the first round on May 25, 1965 | 56 |
| He knew the ropes | 17 |
| He K.O.'d Foreman 10/30/74 | 30 |
| He had a "sting like a bee" | 37 |
| He fought Frazier three times | 29 |
| He floored Foreman in Zaire | 27 |
| He floated "like a butterfly" | 39 |
| He could "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" | 61 |
| He came out of retirement in 1980 | 33 |
| He beat Liston twice | 20 |
| He beat Liston | 14 |
| He "floated like a butterfly" | 39 |
| He ''stung like a bee'' | 39 |
| HBO's ___ G | 15 |
| G on TV | 7 |
| Frequent Neiman subject | 23 |
| Frequent LeRoy Neiman subject | 29 |
| Frequent Cosell interviewee | 27 |
| Frazier's longtime foe | 26 |
| Frazier's "Thrilla in Manila" opponent | 52 |
| Frazier foe, once | 17 |
| Frazier defeater | 16 |
| Fourth caliph of Islam | 22 |
| Fourth caliph in Sunni Islam | 28 |
| Four-time winner of Ring magazine's Fighter of the Year award in the 1970s | 78 |
| Former ring star | 16 |
| Former ring leader | 18 |
| Former pugilist Laila | 21 |
| Former CNN business anchor Velshi | 33 |
| Former champ with a Presidential Medal of Freedom | 49 |
| Former boxing champion | 22 |
| Former boxer Laila | 18 |
| Former bachelorette Fedotowsky | 30 |
| Foreman's superior? | 23 |
| Foreman's opponent in Zaire | 31 |
| Foreman's foe in Zaire | 26 |
| Foreman's 1974 superior | 27 |
| Foreman superior, once | 22 |
| Foreman striker | 15 |
| Foreman KO'er, 1974 | 23 |
| Foreman KO'er | 17 |
| Foreman floorer in 1974 | 23 |
| Foreman competitor | 18 |
| Foreman beater in '74 | 25 |
| Foreman adversary | 17 |
| Focus of a Louisville museum | 28 |
| Focus of a Louisville cultural center | 37 |
| Fistiana poet | 13 |
| First name in Scheherazade's tales | 38 |
| First fighter to KO Liston | 26 |
| Film that won the 2002 NAACP Image Award | 40 |
| Film in which Voight plays Cosell | 33 |
| Figure in the Sunni/Shia split | 30 |
| Fighter who was a dove | 22 |
| Fighter from Louisville | 23 |
| Fighter formerly known as Clay | 30 |
| Fight-game name | 15 |
| Fedotowsky of "The Bachelorette" | 42 |
| Fatima's spouse | 19 |
| Fath ___, Shah of Persia: 1797–1835 | 42 |
| Fath ___, former Shah of Persia | 31 |
| Fath ___, former Shah | 21 |
| Fassbinder film "___: Fear Eats the Soul" | 51 |
| Famed ring name | 15 |
| Famed ex-boxer | 14 |
| Famed boxer | 11 |
| Fabled Baba | 11 |
| Ex-ring master | 14 |
| Ex-ring king | 12 |
| Ex-boxer Laila | 14 |
| Erstwhile ring master | 21 |
| Eponym of a Parkinson research center in Phoenix | 48 |
| Eastern big wig | 15 |
| Early follower of Muhammad | 26 |
| Dundee's protege in the ring | 32 |
| Deposed ring king | 17 |
| Defeater of Superman in a 1978 comic book | 41 |
| Cover subject of the April 1968 issue of Esquire | 48 |
| Cousin of Mohammed | 18 |
| Cosell sparring partner | 23 |
| Common Moslem name | 18 |
| Common Arab given name | 22 |
| Comeback victor of 1974 | 23 |
| Comeback maker of October 1974 | 30 |
| Cocky real-life Rocky | 21 |
| CNN correspondent Velshi | 24 |
| CNN business anchor Velshi | 26 |
| Clay's new name | 19 |
| Clay's chosen name | 22 |
| Clay's aka | 14 |
| Clay, transformed | 17 |
| Clay, presently | 15 |
| Clay, eventually | 16 |
| Clay, by another name | 21 |