Interesting stories. Thanks for the input.

"Elvis was my close personal friend. He came to my Deer Lake training camp about two years before he died. He told us he didn't want nobody to bother us. He wanted peace and quiet and I gave him a cabin in my camp and nobody even knew it. When the cameras started watching me train, he was up on the hill sleeping in the cabin. Elvis had a robe made for me. I don't admire nobody, but Elvis Presley was the sweetest, most humble and nicest man you'd want to know." - Muhammad Ali

Ferdie Pacheco (Ali’s fight doctor): “I was there the time Elvis presented Ali with the robe. It was in Vegas in ’74 and it was really something to see. They really didn’t know what to do with each other. Obviously Elvis was enthralled to be in Ali’s presence, but so was Ali, he loved Elvis. He wasn’t really into the music, but he said, ‘Boy, that guy can dance. What an entertainer.’ Elvis came in to Ali’s hotel room with the robe, ‘The People’s Champ’ written on the back in jewels. Ali sees Elvis coming in and says, ‘Hey, that’s Elvis, man. He looks pretty good!’ And both of them looked at each other like good-looking women would look at each other to appraise how they look.

At that time, Ali was at the height of his good looks, and this was Elvis before he got fat. So this, you know, was probably the best-looking black guy and the best-looking white guy on the planet in that room, and they were looking at each other like roosters. ‘You look good, Ali.’ ‘Yeah, you’re looking good, Elvis’. So here they are and they really wanted to be friends with each other, but they didn’t know what to do. They didn’t know how to connect.

You know, Elvis is surrounded by these white guys, these rednecks from Memphis, and Ali is hanging out with these black guys from the Nation of Islam. They were living in two different worlds. They respected each other and the love was there, but they couldn’t quite get as close as they would have liked. But the robe Elvis presented to Ali that night was the only one he ever kept. I think they met once or twice after that night.

One time Elvis went up to see Ali at his training camp at Deer Lake, Pennsylvania. I wasn’t there but I heard that Ali thought it would be fun to take Elvis down in to the little town near Deer Lake unannounced. As the story goes, they go to this bar. Ali didn’t drink, but I think he just wanted to get a kick out of taking Elvis into this bar. Anyway there is a little stage in this place and maybe half a dozen people in there having a drink.

They probably recognised Ali because he liked to go down to the town and have fun with people, but they didn’t recognise Elvis. There was a guy singing on stage and Ali managed to persuade Elvis to go up there and sing a song. Well, of course as soon as Elvis started singing everybody in the place knew who it was. Ali was cracking up, you know – Elvis was singing for this bunch of barflies in this small town. I think they escaped through the back door before anybody in the bar could raise the alarm and have the whole town in there.”

On February 14, 1973 Elvis Presley visited Muhammad Ali before a fight in Las Vegas, Nevada to give him this “Elvis Style” robe that says ‘People’s Choice” on the back in rhinestones and jewels.
Ali thanked Elvis for the robe then went directly to the Las Vegas Convention Center for his fight that night against Joe Bugner. Ali did not wear the “Elvis robe” for his fight that night and he went on to win a unanimous decision. A month later on March 31, 1973, Ali did wear the “Elvis robe” into the ring for his fight against Ken Norton in San Diego, California. Here is a photo of Ali in the ring with the “Elvis robe” on…
The television commentator for the fight said ‘That robe was given by Elvis Presley at his last fight in Las Vegas. It cost around $3000.00 and it’s Ali’s pride and joy.” Ali lost the fight and never again wore the robe into the ring again considering it bad luck.

Looks like Ali borrowed one of Elvis's coats.

Great snap! Never seen this one before of the King.