IT takes a lot of guts to pull off the Ali shuffle in a boxing ring – but showmanship is in the DNA of The Greatest’s grandson. This weekend the undefeated Nico Ali Walsh will step into the ring fo…
“In his own way he’s Nico Ali, just like Muhammad was in his young days fighting when he backed it all the way.”Khalilah was 17 when she married Ali in 1967, the same year he was prosecuted for refusing the draft to fight in the Vietnam War and was stripped of his heavyweight title.Khalilah stuck by him during the tough times and they had four children, Maryum, now 55, twins Jamillah and Rasheda, 53 — Nico and Biaggio’s mum — and Muhammad Ali Junior, 51.
As kids Nico and Biaggio would watch their grandad hit a punch bag, and at school they were regularly asked if they could hit as hard as Ali and were often challenged to fights. She said: “My facial expression is like, ‘Daddy, what are you doing? Why are you encouraging him to box?’”was not far from Ali’s in neighbouring Arizona, and the brothers got to know their grandfather well.
“When I saw him fight and train in the gym I’ve seen different, but when I went to one of his fights I see he’s mastering his art, he’s done real good.”
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