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  • Muhammad Ali dead at 74

    Muhammad Ali, the silver-tongued boxer and civil rights champion who famously proclaimed himself "The Greatest" and then spent a lifetime living up to the billing, is dead.

    Ali died Friday at a Phoenix-area hospital, where he had spent the past few days being treated for respiratory complications, a family spokesman confirmed to NBC News. He was 74.

    "After a 32-year battle with Parkinson's disease, Muhammad Ali has passed away at the age of 74. The three-time World Heavyweight Champion boxer died this evening," Bob Gunnell, a family spokesman, told NBC News.

    Ali had suffered for three decades from Parkinson's, a progressive neurological condition that slowly robbed him of both his legendary verbal grace and his physical dexterity. A funeral service is planned in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky.

    Even as his health declined, Ali did not shy from politics or controversy, releasing a statement in December criticizing Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States. "We as Muslims have to stand up to those who use Islam to advance their own personal agenda," he said.

    The remark bookended the life of a man who burst into the national consciousness in the early 1960s, when as a young heavyweight champion he converted to Islam and refused to serve in the Vietnam War, and became an emblem of strength, eloquence, conscience and courage. Ali was an anti-establishment showman who transcended borders and barriers, race and religion. His fights against other men became spectacles, but he embodied much greater battles.


    RIP GOAT. At least he can finally rest now
    This year continues to disappoint

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    Rest in peace
    You got to deal with me on a whole new level

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    • #3
      RIP to the GOAT.

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      • #4
        Rest In Peace
        My 2PAC Collection | Status: 09/27/2018
        Vinyls: 60
        Cassettes: 110
        CDs: 216


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        • #5
          Rest In Peace
          - Steez 4 President -

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          • #6
            RIP another great Person leave the World.

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            • #7
              Float like a butterfly sting like a bee ! Damn the greatest is gone

              Rest in peace
              #FREE MOUSSA

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              • #8
                RIP, too many celebrity deaths already this year

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                • #9
                  rip, as i heard this, i thought damn some ppls on this world has done it...i watched nearly everything from him, a grandmaster. god has his champion back.
                  He was a nice middle class nigga
                  But nobody knew the evil he'd do When he got a little bigger
                  Shorty Wanna Be A Thug - Tupac

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                  • #10
                    Truly the Greatest on and off the ring. Rest in peace

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                    • #11
                      RIP, i always thought he was older but he was only 74.. At least now he'll be able to kick it with Malcolm X

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                      • #12
                        R.I.P. champ

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                        • #13
                          RIP, sad to see yet another death this year.

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                          • #14
                            RIP, another legend gone..but never forgotten.
                            Love Peace & Harmony

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                            • #15
                              One of the greatest to ever box!
                              www.starmusicmedia.com

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