BREAKING: Boxing legend Muhammad Ali dies at 74 – family statement

Boxing icon Muhammad Ali died on
Friday, a family spokesman said in a
statement.


"After a 32-year battle with Parkinson’s
disease, Muhammad Ali has passed
away at the age of 74," spokesman Bob
Gunnell said.
Ali, whose fame transcended sport
during a remarkable heavyweight
boxing career that spanned three
decades, had been hospitalized in the
Phoenix, Arizona, area with a
respiratory ailment this week.