Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson took a red-eye flight from Las Vegas to Louisville, Kentucky on Friday to serve as a pallbearer for Muhammad Ali, joining former heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis, actor Will Smith and members of Ali’s family. Ali family spokesman Bob Gunnell said Tyson wasn’t sure whether he would attend the service because […]
Boxing legend Muhammad Ali is being laid to rest today.
Laila Ali is arguably one of Muhammad Ali‘s most famous daughters, but the boxing champ is quick to shoot down any notions of her being a Daddy’s girl. Just hours before the family will bury her 74-year-old father and a day after his Islamic prayer services, she talks to the Tom Joyner Morning Show […]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Muhammad Ali will return to his old Kentucky neighborhood one last time. Ali’s body will ride in a miles-long procession spanning his life — from his boyhood home where he shadowboxed and dreamed of greatness to the boulevard that bears his name and the museum that stands as a lasting tribute […]
CLEVELAND (AP) — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Jim Brown both got the call on June 4, which was strangely appropriate, along with simultaneously heartbreaking and heartwarming. On one hand, someone they revered was gone. On the other, someone they watched suffer for years would hurt no more. “He represented,” Brown said, “what a man should be […]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The Latest on memorials for boxing great Muhammad Ali (all times local): 12:15 p.m. The Muslim prayer service for Muhammad Ali is underway in Louisville, Kentucky. Thousands are attending the service. Some chanted and some held cameras and cellphones above their heads as Ali’s body was brought inside a wing of […]
The President and First Lady wrote a letter that will be given to Ali's family by White House Senior Advisor, Valerie Jarrett.
Will Smith, Lennox Lewis and six other friends/family of the late great Muhammed Ali will serve as pallbearers at his funeral this Friday, ESPN reports. Ali and Smith formed a genuine friendship during the filming of the iconic biopic Ali, for which Smith landed an Academy Award nomination. According to ESPN, Ali died from septic […]
“The Talk” host Sheryl Underwood shares her personal story about meeting Muhammad Ali as a young child in her Chicago home when her mother wanted to convert the family to Islam. Underwood says: “This man was in our house and the whole neighborhood was so excited…I was a little girl…I heard my relatives and neighbors […]
Will Smith, Lennox Lewis and six other friends/family of the late great Muhammed Ali will serve as pallbearers at his funeral this Friday, ESPN reports. Ali and Smith formed a genuine friendship during the filming of the iconic biopic Ali, for which Smith landed an Academy Award nomination. According to ESPN, Ali died from septic […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Aretha Franklin remembers the first time she met Muhammad Ali, before he was famous. She was preparing for a concert in Los Angeles, and she recalled a man yelling, “I’m the Greatest, I’m the Greatest!” “I was saying, ‘Who is he? Who is this guy?'” she recalled in an interview with […]
During an appearance this morning on “Good Morning America,” Laila Ali discussed the final moments she and her siblings spent at the bedside of their father Muhammad Ali before his death on Friday. Speaking to co-host Robin Roberts, Laila said all nine of his children flew to Arizona to be with him, and some of […]
