He was fast of fist and foot — lip, too — a heavyweight champion who promised to shock the world and did. He floated. He stung. Mostly, he thrilled, even after the punches had taken their toll and his voice barely rose above a whisper. He was “The Greatest.” Muhammad Ali died Friday, according to a statement from his family. He was 74. “We lost a legend, a hero and a great man,” Floyd Mayweather told ESPN. Ali had been hospitalized in the Phoenix area this week with respiratory issues, and his children had flown in from around the country. One of them, Rasheda Ali, took to Twitter early Saturday morning to mourn her father.
The Greatest Man that ever lived. Daddy my best friend & my Hero You R no longer suffering & now in a better place..
The Paradise Valley Police Department told ABC News that an emergency medical services call was made from Ali’s address in the Phoenix area on Tuesday, and the Phoenix Fire Department confirmed that it responded at that time to a call for mutual aid for a 74-year-old male with respiratory issues.
Retired from boxing since 1981, Ali had battled Parkinson’s disease for decades. He had been hospitalized a few other times in recent years, including in early 2015 because of a severe urinary tract infection initially diagnosed as pneumonia.
Ali had looked increasingly frail in public appearances, the last coming April 9, when he wore sunglasses and was hunched over at the annual Celebrity Fight Night dinner in Phoenix, which raises funds for treatment of Parkinson’s.
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“I’m so mean, I make medicine sick, ” said the late Muhammad Ali.
One of our best and legendary black man died peacefully. Although he’s not here with us, remember that this was a man who was very, very proud to be black and white supremacy couldn’t get him to be a boasie slave!
Muhammad Ali is dead but his work, words, and memories will forever be with us black people. God is the ultimate and the almighty!