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Need some help again..... Ali AKA Cassius Clay signed gloves

Joe Pantoliano stopped into the shop I work in today and brought along a gift he was given by HBO back when he was working on The Sopranos.

A pair of Lights Out gloves with wraps each signed Muhammad Ali AKA Cassius Clay and dated 2000.

No paperwork, just the gloves and the wraps stuffed inside and a plastic case.

Are they real? Any interest here?

Talk to me.....hahahahha

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Permalink Reply by Mike T on August 5, 2016 at 11:16am

If they are legit they are worth a pretty penny.. I've never really studied his signature that well, but there are some red flags. After the 90s his handwriting was typically much smaller than this due to his health, and he rarely signed with his slave name. If it was at a sit down signing, it would have an Online Authentics hologram and you don't typically see both gloves signed. The fakes are pretty darn good, and the Ali family estimates over 95% are forgeries.

I'm sure others can provide more conclusive details than me, but here is the study if you want to go down the path yourself: http://www.aliautos.net/examples.html

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Permalink Reply by Pete Bendu on August 5, 2016 at 12:02pm

The size and stretch of the signature worried me right off the bat. Add the relative clarity of that signature signed in 2000.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Kaminski on August 5, 2016 at 1:06pm

No good IMO

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Permalink Reply by KatoTheMaster on August 5, 2016 at 2:15pm

Hi Pete, IMO I don't really think Ali was signing like this in the 2000's so that for me is a red flag that is looking like to me an 90's signature style I maybe wrong but this my opinion on the gloves.