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An eighteen-year-old named Cassius Clay won a six-round decision over Tunney Hunsaker here in 1960 - the first professional fight of the man who became Muhammad Ali. Freedom Hall, at 937 Phillips Lane on the Kentucky Exposition Center grounds five miles south of downtown Louisville, opened in 1956 with a name chosen from 6,500 entries in a statewide essay contest won by a high school senior. The building was designed, unusually, around horses: the Kentucky State Fair World's Championship Horse ...