{"id":25827,"date":"2016-06-04T00:41:22","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T00:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/boxing-legend-muhammad-ali-dies-at-74\/"},"modified":"2016-06-04T00:41:09","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T00:41:09","slug":"boxing-legend-muhammad-ali-dies-at-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/boxing-legend-muhammad-ali-dies-at-74\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing legend Muhammad Ali dies at 74"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Former heavyweight world champion had retired from boxing in 1981 with a record 56 wins and only five losses.}<\/p>\n

Muhammad Ali, the boxing legend, has died in a hospital in the US state of Arizona.<\/p>\n

The 74-year-old former heavyweight world champion had been hospitalised on Thursday with respiratory problems.<\/p>\n

US media reported that the problems were complicated by his Parkinson’s disease.<\/p>\n

Ali was born in Louisville, Kentucky, on January 17, 1942, as Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr, a name shared with a 19th century slavery abolitionist. He later changed his name after his conversion to Islam.<\/p>\n

Nicknamed The Greatest, Ali retired from boxing in 1981 with a record 56 wins and only five losses.
\nAli was known globally not only for his ring career but also for his civil rights activism.<\/p>\n

He had been hospitalised multiple times in recent years. Ali spent time in hospital in 2014 after suffering a mild case of pneumonia and again in 2015 for a urinary tract infection.<\/p>\n

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His Parkinson’s, thought to be linked to the punches he took during his career that spanned three decades, had limited his public speaking for years.<\/p>\n

However, he had continued to make appearances and offer opinions through his family members and spokespersons.<\/p>\n

In April, he attended a Celebrity Fight Night Dinner in Phoenix that raised funds for treatment of Parkinson’s.<\/p>\n

In December, he issued a statement rebuking US presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s call for a ban on Muslims entering the United States.<\/p>\n

Ali lived with his wife, the former Lonnie Williams, who knew him when she was a child in Louisville, along with his nine children.<\/p>\n

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