OBITUARY OF MUHAMMAD ALI: GREATEST SPORTSMAN ON THE PLANET! CONVERT TO ISLAM & PERSONIFICATION OF BLACK PRIDE!
BY: M. M. ALAM
The most loved sportsman in history, three time World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, Muhammad Ali has died. The greatest athlete ever, who once said “I am so mean, I make medicine sick”, was finally knocked-out in the final bout of his life by a respiratory ailment at the age of 74. He has also suffered from Parkinson’s disease for more than three decades.
On Thursday June 2, Ali was hospitalized with a respiratory problem and was taken to ICU next day. He died today (June 4, 2016) but the flame of legacy burns on!
* Ali was born as Cassius Clay in Louisville in 1942.
* He converted to the Nation of Islam (and appalled the white America).
* Changed his name from Cassius Clay to Cassius X and then to Muhammad Ali.
* He became a symbol for black liberation during the 1960s. He refused to be drafted into the army and stood up to the U.S. government saying “Man, I ain’t got no quarrel with them Vietcong”.
* Muhammad Ali was stripped of his titles in 1967 and lost three and a half year (that could have been the best as a fighter).
* His footwork was called an extension of the balletic arts.
* At the age of 18 Ali won Olympic light-heavyweight gold at the Rome Olympics
* In 1964 he won the heavyweight title by beating Sonny Liston.
* In 1978 he won the title for a third time and retired from boxing in 1981 with 56 wins (37 by knockout), five losses.
* Though he was suffering from Parkinson disease Ali was well enough to light the torch to start the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.
* He also took part in the opening ceremony of the London
* Olympics in 2012 (in a wheelchair).
* He has been married four times and has nine children.
Muhammad Ali defeated Sonny Liston in ’64 to become Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) pictured in his teenage years
Preaching the world
In 1981 Ali saw a man about to commit suicide & persuaded him to change his mind.
Mohammad Ali snapped at Lahore (Pakistan) in 1988
Ali’s last public appearance was in April at the Celebrity Fight Night gala in Arizona, a charity that benefits the Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center. The man is no more but the legacy burns on!
