| Mohammad Alai | |
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| Name | |
|---|---|
| Kana Name | マホメド・アライ |
| First Appearance | |
| Anime | Defeat |
| Manga | Where... |
| Information | |
| Origin | USA |
| Age | About 60 |
| Hair Color | Gray |
| Fighting Style | Mohammad Alai's Boxing Style |
| Original Dub | Hideyuki Tanaka (2018) |
| English Dub | James Mathis III (2018) |
| Relations | Mohammad Alai Jr (Son) |
Mohammad Alai (マホメド・アライ, Mahomedo Arai) is a fictional character from anime and manga series of Baki. A legendary boxer who dedicated his life in fighting for the weak, and developing a perfect art of fighting. When he was still young, he encountered a young Yuujirou Hanma with whom he had a short fight, to see how his art of fighting is developed.
Personality
Upon first impression, Alai comes off as a very lethargic person, mostly due to his illness. However in reality Mohammad has a mostly calm demeanor, that has only broken down on rare occasions, most times leading him to swear at his opponents. In his youth, He was determined to perfect a universal martial art but was halted for 3 years due to having been banned from competing in combat sports. During his time as a Boxer, Alai fought for the disenfranchised and weak such as the African Americans and military veterans which earned him great amounts of respect from Yuujirou Hanma.
Alai is also shown to be a very caring man, shown by how he openly intervened in his sons fight between Baki Hanma by punching Baki off of Alai Jr before the latter could break his son's neck. However, despite the love he shows for his son, he is equally demanding of him and pushes him to have the same skills he possessed during his boxing career, something which causes Alai great disappointment after having to step in to save his son from getting his neck snapped, to the point where he refused to console his son and just walks off as Alai Jr. is bawling his eyes out after a humiliating defeat from Baki.
Appearance
Mohammad is an American man of African descent. He has black hair and brown eyes. His hairstyle is often fuzzy with a slightly receding hairline. He was clean shaven in his younger years but has a slight stubble later in life. Also, he is a tall and muscular man.
Because of his disease, he is often shaking and drooling with a blank expression.
History
Abilities
Mohammad Alai is a former strongest boxer in the world. He had the world strongest and fastest punches. Due to his age and having an advanced disease, he's weaker than he used to be. But despite that, he can still have the speed and the power just like in his prime time, but only for one minute. He could even punch Baki Hanma before he could react. He learned over time that his fighting style had major problems in it. He taught his son what he could while trying to fix the problem.
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Trivia
- The character was based on the real-life boxer named Muhammad Ali whose birth name is Cassius Clay. In Hanma Baki series, there was a mention about a boxer named Cacias Clay (キャシアス・クレイ, Kyashiasu Kurei), so the original name of Mohammad Alai is probably Cacias Clay.
- Despite the existence of Mohammad Alai in the Baki series, the manga author decided to make a few mentions about the real Muhammad Ali in the third series of the manga (see an article: Muhammad Ali).