LOUISVILLE, Ky - There are 2,500 historical markers put up around the state of Kentucky, but officials in Louisville Saturday declared a new one as, “The greatest of all time.” It’s actually one of a handful being put up around the city to mark milestones in the life of Muhammad Ali.

"It’s sometimes hard to remember all of the components of the vast life that this man lived," said Councilwoman Barbara Sexton Smith. "We all now know why he was put on this earth. He was put on this earth to teach us it’s not about ourselves." 

There are pieces of art and symbolic gestures to honor Ali across the city. The Presbyterian Community Center in Smoketown looks like any ordinary building. But below, in the basement, a teenage Cassius Clay received his formative training by a leader in the black community.

"My dad didn’t just influence my life, he influenced a lot of other lives," said Fred Stoner Jr. "not just because of the boxing. He was a character builder." Fred Stoner Sr. became the first African-American member of the Kentucky Boxing Commission.

"When you have a billion people watch your memorial, there’s more people interested in Muhammad Ali than almost anybody who’s walked the face of the earth," said Mayor Greg Fischer. "So, it’s our great pleasure to be able to do things like this."

As I looked around the basement I couldn’t believe what I saw in the corner; an old red bicycle, not unlike the stolen one that launched Ali’s career all those years ago. “It was left behind by a past resident,” a maintenance worker said. He added that it was randomly brought down for storage. However it found its way there it’s another line of perfect poetry to add to the legacy of the great wordsmith himself.