he was an amateur boxing champion. In 1960, when he was still an amateur, he won the light heavyweight gold medal at the Olympic games in Rome. (2) After that, Ali became a professional heavyweight boxer. He was 1.88 meters tall and his fighting weight was about 95 kilograms. He had a very successful professional boxing career. In fact, he won the world heavyweight championship three times. The first time was when he beat the former champion, Sonny Liston, in 1964. In the same year, he became a Muslim and assumed the name Muhammad Ali. (3) In 1967 he refused to be drafted for the Vietnam War. Although a jury in a trial found him guilty, later the Supreme Court said that he had had the right to refuse. (4) Ten years later, in 1974, he became world champion again when he beat George Foreman in Zaire. He became champion for the third time in 1978 after beating Leon Spinks. Ali fought his last professional fight in 1981 against Trevor Berbick and then retired from boxing. (5) Heavyweight boxers are usually very strong but not fast, but Ali was very strong and very fast. He said his style was “to float like a butterfly and sting like a bee.” Ali liked to talk a lot and people called him the Louisville Lip. According to Paragraph (1), when Ali won the gold medal, he was ………….
According to Paragraph (3), who supported Ali when he refused to join the army?