“Not as a boxer, but as a Muslim, a father, a brother, husband, a poet, a patriot, and an ambassador of peace. His spirit still draws attention more than five years after Ali’s death in 2016, at the age of 74, after a 32-year battle with Parkinson’s disease.Īli Walsh was drawn to this project after Sarah Burns reached out and detailed it would be a comprehensive one about the man she calls “daddy.” Rasheda Ali Walsh is used to documentaries about her father, whose bravado captured the world. Jesse Jackson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Ali’s daughters, and his ex-wives. It will offer archive footage and interviews with scholars, sports figures, and luminaries, such as Rev.
(Photo by Kent Gavin/Keystone/Getty Images)īurns co-directed the docuseries with his daughter, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon. Supremely confident American boxer Cassius Clay holds up five fingers in a prediction of how many rounds it will take him to knock out British boxer Henry Cooper.
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