Ali - The Greatest Of All Time 1942 - 2016

Dec. 12, 1980 - Ali Runs Out Of Punch: The man they once called the Lonisville Lip has trouble getting his words out these days. Three times world heavyweight champion Muhummad Ali is in London to promote his new film Freedom Road and The Greatest seems to have turned into The Weariest. During his press conference yesterdays in London's Dorchester Hotel the former champ had great difficulty staying awake and spent a lot of the time slumped in an armchair. He explained his weariness as a result of getting up at 3 in the morning to write a lecture for Baptists in Detroit. These days Ali has two consuming passions - to spread God's word and to regain the world title. He is determined to become the first mani in history to come back four times. But yesterday Ali sadly seemed just a shadow of the once larger-than-life showman. Photo shows Muhammad Ali rouses himself a little from his torpor to appear on the roof of the Dorchester

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