Taipei Times
Date: Jun 05, 2016
By: AFP, SAN FRANCISCO
Muhammad Ali was remembered in tributes worldwide for his iconic fight for social justice as
A statue of Muhammad Ali stands in a lobby at the O2 Arena in London yesterday. Photo: AP
well as his legendary boxing battles following his death on Friday at age 74.
“We lost a giant today,” Filipino fighter Manny Pacquiao said. “Boxing benefitted from Muhammad Ali’s talents, but not as much as mankind benefitted from his humanity.”
The front-page headline on Ali’s hometown newspaper, the Courier-Journal of Louisville, Kentucky, simply said, “The Greatest” with a photo of Ali in the ring.
Ali spoke out for African-American civil rights in the 1960s, carrying on his fight against injustice and sacrificing the prime years of his own career in the process.
“He is, without a question in my mind, the most transformative person of our time,” boxing promoter Bob Arum said. [FULL STORY]
