#Boxing Legend, Muhammad Ali’s Health Condition On The Decline!

Yolanda Williams Ali, 1986 - present

Muhammad Ali’s Parkinson’s disease has advanced to the point he can barely speak or leave his Arizona home, family sources said. 

According to his younger brother, Rahman Ali, the 72-year-old former heavyweight world champion was too incapacitated to attend this week’s Hollywood premiere of a documentary about his life, I Am Ali. “I have not been able to talk to my brother about this because he is sick. He doesn't speak too well. But he is proud that we are here for him. He has given this film his blessing,” Rahman told the Sunday People. 

In February 2013, Rahman said his brother “could die within days”, prompting a flurry of media activity and denials from other members of the family. Ali, whose ability to “float like a butterfly, sting like a bee” applied to verbal as well as athletic dexterity, has endured a gradual deterioration since his Parkinson’s was diagnosed.  

In January, Ali’s son, Muhammad Ali Jr, said there was “no chance” his father would last the year. “I just want, hope and pray to God that this awful disease takes my dad sooner rather than later,” he said.