Services for Muhammad Ali to be Held in Louisville
In the wake of Muhammad Ali‘s death, it’s hard not to look back on some of the greatest moments of his career.
American President Barack Obama said that Muhammad Ali had “stood up when it was hard; spoke out when others would not”.
Frank Green of Louisville kneels in prayer before a memorial at the Muhammad Ali Center in the champ’s hometown.
In his prime, Ali was one of our best orators and one of our best comedians, a man of rare physical and verbal gifts.
Virtual Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump expressed Mohammad Ali was “really a great champion and a wonderful guy.!”
“In addition to the funeral, there will be a procession throughout Louisville to allow the general public to pay their last respect to the ‘Greatest of All Time, ‘” the Ali Center website states.
A single rose adorns a Muhammad Ali exhibition at the O2 arenaL. A private funeral service for family will be held Thursday, with a public memorial Friday.
Rahaman Ali took center stage at the two-hour, high-energy service at King Solomon Missionary Baptist Church, sitting in a front-row pew with his wife, Caroline. Centre in Louisville at 2pm on Friday. The other half was committed to sharing a message of people and inclusion with the world.
Elliott recalled the light side of the former boxing champion and global humanitarian, who died Friday at an Arizona hospital.
REUTERS/Jorge NunezA smiling Muhammad Ali shows his fist to reporters during an impromptu press conference in Mexico City July 9, 1987.In a speech delivered Saturday in California, Clinton remembered Ali lighting the Olympic torch in Atlanta as his hands shook due to his Parkinson’s Disease.
A procession will take him through the streets where he grew up, including spots that were historically important to him, his family said.
Cassius Marcellus Clay’s rise in boxing began when he won the gold medal at the 1960 Rome Olympics and converted to Islam.
“Ali, the G-O-A-T”, Fox tweeted, alongside a picture of him with the three-time World Heavyweight Champion.
He was outspoken, eloquent and poetic, perhaps his most famous quip being that he would “float like a butterfly, sting like a bee”.
The centre provides resources and treatment for movement disorders, such as Parkinson’s, which Ali suffered from. You have to consider those.
In particular, Howe said Ali will be remembered for his refusal to go to war in Vietnam - an act of defiance that cost him his world heavyweight title.