Boxing legend Muhhad Ali dies, 74

Posted by Ameenur Rasheed on June 4, 2016.

Muhammad Ali, the world 3 times heavyweight champion has died on friday 3 June at the age of 74 in a hospital in Arizona after being admitted with respiratory problems.

Muhammad Ali, 1942-2016.

Muhammad Ali was born Cassius Macellus Clay Jr on January 17, 1942, in Louisville, Kentucky

Aged 22, he took on heavyweight champion Sonny Liston in Miami.

Ali was the first man to win heavyweight titles three times

Ali attended his first Nation of Islam meeting in 1959 and converted to Islam in 1975.

In 1967, he famously refused to fight in Vietnam, citing religious reasons.

Married four times, he had seven daughters and two sons

He was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 1984, at the age of 43.

Ali’s funeral will take place in Louisville

Ali is survived by his wife, the former Lonnie Williams, who knew him when she was a child, along with his nine children.