it didnt matter were he competed, ali saw him when he was a teenager and the way he talked to everyone stuck with him.....Ali met him when he was 19....George told him..."“A lot of people will pay to see someone shut your mouth. So keep on bragging, keep on sassing and always be outrageous, ”The Hollywood Fashion Plate and Gorgeous George were contemporaries, and Clay could have seen either. Did George compete in Kentucky when Clay was a kid?