Cast
- Will Smith as Cassius Clay, Jr. / Cassius X / Muhammad Ali
- Jamie Foxx as Drew Bundini Brown
- Jon Voight as Howard Cosell
- Mario Van Peebles as Malcolm X
- Ron Silver as Angelo Dundee
- Jeffrey Wright as Howard Bingham
- Mykelti Williamson as Don King
- Jada Pinkett Smith as Sonji Roi
- Nona Gaye as Belinda/Khalilah Ali
- Michael Bentt as Sonny Liston
- Michael Michele as Veronica Porsche
- Joe Morton as Chauncey Eskridge
- Paul Rodriguez as Dr. Ferdie Pacheco
- Bruce McGill as Bradley
- Barry Shabaka Henley as Herbert Muhammad
- James Toney as Joe Frazier
- Giancarlo Esposito as Cassius Clay, Sr.
- Laurence Mason as Luis Sarria
- LeVar Burton as Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Albert Hall as Elijah Muhammad
- David Cubitt as Robert Lipsyte
- Charles Shufford as George Foreman
- Robert Sale as Jerry Quarry
- Candy Ann Brown as Odessa
- David Haines as Rudy Clay / Rahaman Ali
- Leon Robinson as Joe Smiley
- David Elliott as Sam Cooke
- Shari Watson as Singer
- Malick Bowers as Joseph Mobutu
- Zaa Nkweta as Foreman Fight Announcer
- Brandon T. Jackson as Club Goer (uncredited)
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