1942-2016 : Legenda Tinju Dunia Muhammad Ali, Meninggal Dunia
Muhammad Ali meninggal dunia pada usia 74 tahun hari ini selepas dua hari dimasukkan ke Hospital Phoenix kerana masalah pernafasan. Berita mengenai pemergiannya itu disahkan oleh ahli keluarganya, sebentar tadi. - CARI Infonet
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Muhammad Ali, Peninju Dunia Kini Dilaporkan Semakin Tenat
Legenda tinju dunia, Muhammad Ali dikhabarkan semakin tenat. Keadaan kesihatan beliau dilaporkan sumber yang rapat dengan keluarga ahli sukan yang sedang dirawat atas masalah pernafasan di Phoenix, Arizona.
"Keadaannya sangat tenat," kata sumber yang tidak mahu dikenali. Bekas juara tinju heavyweight dunia berusia 74 tahun itu dimasukkan ke hospital berkenaan Khamis lalu akibat masalah pernafasan dengan media AS melaporkan keadaannya dirumitkan lagi oleh penyakit Parkinson. - CARI Infonet
Post time 4-6-2016 01:07 PMFrom the mobile phone|Show all posts
Sedihnya dengan pemergiaan sukan tinju terhebat sepanjang zaman. Semoga roh Allahyarham di tempat dikalangan org beriman. Antara perlawanan paling hebat apabila beliau berjaya merampas kembali kejuaraan heavyweight dunia dari George Foreman.
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 Disease, 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.
Born Cassius Clay on Jan. 17, 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky, to middle-class parents, Ali started boxing when he was 12, winning Golden Gloves titles before heading to the 1960 Olympics in Rome, where he won a gold medal as a light heavyweight.
He turned professional shortly afterward, supported at first by Louisville business owners who guaranteed him an unprecedented 50-50 split in earnings. His knack for talking up his own talents — often in verse — earned him the dismissive nickname "the Louisville Lip," but he backed up his talk with action, relocating to Miami to train with the legendary trainer Angelo Dundee and build a case for getting a shot at the heavyweight title.
As his profile rose, Ali acted out against American racism. After he was refused services at a soda fountain counter, he said, he threw his Olympic gold medal into a river.
Recoiling from the sport's tightly knit community of agents and promoters, Ali found guidance instead from the Nation of Islam, an American Muslim sect that advocated racial separation and rejected the pacifism of most civil rights activism. Inspired by Malcolm X, one of the group's leaders, he converted in 1963. But he kept his new faith a secret until the crown was safely in hand.
That came the following year, when heavyweight champion Sonny Liston agreed to fight Ali. The challenger geared up for the bout with a litany of insults and rhymes, including the line, "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." He beat the fearsome Liston in a sixth-round technical knockout before a stunned Miami Beach crowd. In the ring, Ali proclaimed, "I am the greatest! I am the greatest! I'm the king of the world."
Post time 4-6-2016 01:45 PMFrom the mobile phone|Show all posts
Al fatihah . Sebab minat pada Ali dan kagum dengan beliau , aku dapat silver medal di SUKMA 2004 di Negeri Sembilan . Semoga roh Ali dicucuri rahmat . Sebak~~
"I never thought of the possibility of failing, only of the fame and glory I was going to get when I won," Ali wrote. "I could see it. I could almost feel it. When I proclaimed that I was the greatest of all time, I believed in myself, and I still do."
Post time 4-6-2016 12:09 PM
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