World Heavyweight Champion before Muhammad Ali, boxing career installation log, pressure unprecedented show, controversial him one of the most famous personalities of the events of the 20th century letters, died Friday at the 74th. Ali's death in a statement from Bob Gunnell family spokesman said Friday, a day after his recovery in the Phoenix area with respiratory diseases.
They are not the cause of death or the name of the hospital where he died to liberate. He had long suffered from Parkinson's disease, which affects his speech and make neat former athlete virtually a prisoner in his own body. But the declaration of the same young Ali as "the greatest" rang true until the end for millions of people around the world who admired him for his courage, and out of both the ring. "Part of me to escape, the biggest piece," George Foreman, a former heavyweight boxer and one of the most formidable opponents in the ring, he tweeted after the news of the death of Ali.
Roy Jones, the former boxing who grew up during the first Ali, also in Tweets, "but my heart is saddened both deeply grateful and relieved that the oldest rests now in a better place." Couple of athletic ability he had developed better in 1960 with dancing feet and quick punches, and it was - he said - float like a butterfly and cut like bees. E "for the first time in the tournament three times to win the heavyweight.
But Ali was much more than just a sport colorful and interesting. She spoke publicly against racism in the 60s and the Vietnam War. During and after his championship reign, he met with dozens of world leaders and has long been considered the most famous person in the world, well known in remote villages far from the United States. The diagnosis of Parkinson's after Ali retired from boxing in 1981, almost three years. In order to extend their influence outside of boxing. E 'became the official spokesperson for millions of people in the White and the oppressed all over the world because of its refusal to make concessions to their opinions and to go with the white authorities.
In Britain, where athletes often decay and took their opponents, and it was known as the Louisville Lip and I love to talk, especially about himself. "Humble, if any, not very far," said a reporter once.
