Friday 3 October 2008

Muhhammad Ali - Then and Now (Τότε και Τώρα)


Muhhammad Ali was born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., in Louisville, Kentucky, on January 17, 1942.

Till today, he remains the only man to have won the linear heavyweight championship three times (the linear title is recognized by tracing an -almost- unbroken lineage of titleholders going back over 100 years, with nearly every champion defeating the previous titleholder in the ring).

Ali suffers from Parkinson's disease and in September 1984, he checked into Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital.
After eight days of tests, Ali was released, and a brief public statement was issued by his supervising physician, Stanley Fahn, explaining that Ali was exhibiting "some mild symptoms of Parkinson's syndrome", but that the condition was not degenerative and that Ali was responding well to medication.
Questions regarding Ali's health continued to spread, especially regarding whether or not his ill health was directly caused by boxing.
Ultimately as his condition continued to worsen, it became revealed that his disease had been caused from too many blows to the head.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

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info press said...

@@@ anon

Μόνο 66 χρονών και δείχνει σαν να είναι 80.