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Retired boxing champion Muhammad Ali listens to speakers before receiving the Liberty Medal during a ceremony at the National Constitution Center, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012, in Philadelphia. The honor is given annually to an individual who displays courage and conviction while striving to secure liberty for people worldwide. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) **FILE**

Muhammad Ali ‘vastly improved’ from pneumonia-induced hospital stay

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Friday, July 19, 1996 file photo, Muhammad Ali holds a torch as he watches as the flame climb up to the Olympic cauldron during the opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympics in Atlanta. As Cassius Clay, he won the gold medal as a light heavyweight at the 1960 Rome Olympics. (AP Photo/Doug Mills)

Muhammad Ali hospitalized with pneumonia

By Bruce Schreiner - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 12, 2011, file photo, former heavyweight boxing champion Leon Spinks waves during a Boxing Hall of Fame parade in Canastota, N.Y. Leon Spinks is in a Las Vegas hospital after a second operation for abdominal problems. The 61-year-old boxer who catapulted to fame by beating Muhammad Ali in 1978 had the second surgery in recent days after complications from the first emergency surgery. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)

Spinks fighting a different battle

By TIM DAHLBERG - Associated Press

In this Aug. 14, 2014 photo, artist Stephen Layne works on a sculpture of boxing heavyweight champion Joe Frazier in Philadelphia. Next year, the sculpture is expected to be placed near the city's sports stadiums, ending a hurdle-strewn saga that included fundraising problems and the death of the original sculptor. Frazier died in 2011. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

9-foot ‘Smokin’ Joe’ Frazier statue rising in Philadelphia

By Kathy Matheson - Associated Press

Juan Manuel Marquez, of Mexico, poses in the ring during a media workout at a boxing club in Bell, Calif., Wednesday, May 14, 2014. He and Mike Alvarado are preparing for their WBO welterweight title elimination bout at the Forum in Inglewood, Calif., Saturday. The winner will become the mandatory challenger to WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

Marquez, Alvarado bring boxing back to the Forum

By GREG BEACHAM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 16, 1970, file photo, a defeated Jimmy Ellis as shown in his dressing room after losing heavyweight title bout to Joe Frazier at New York's Madison Square Garden. Ellis, a former heavyweight boxing champion who trained with fellow Louisville fighter Muhammad Ali and squared off against some of his era's best fighters, has died in his hometown Tuesday, May 6, 2014. He was 74. Ellis' brother, Jerry, said the ex-champion died at a Louisville hospital Tuesday after suffering from Alzheimer's disease in recent years. (AP Photo/File)

Ex-boxing champion Jimmy Ellis dies at 74

By BRUCE SCHREINER - Associated Press

Muhammad Ali floats, stings and now tweets

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Cassius Clay's handlers hold him back as he reacts after he is announced the new heavyweight champion of the world on a seventh round technical knockout against Sonny Liston at Convention Hall in Miami Beach, Fla., on Feb. 25, 1964. (AP Photo)

LOVERRO: FBI files add to mystery of Sonny Liston, but Ali’s legacy untarnished

By Thom Loverro - The Washington Times

Muhammad Ali (Formerly Cassius Clay) in action against Sonny Liston. Ali was the winner in Miami Beach, Florida on February 25, 1964. (AP Photo)

FBI suspected iconic 1964 Ali-Liston fight was rigged by mob

By Thom Loverro - The Washington Times

ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, FEB. 23, 2014 AND THEREAFTER - FILE - In this Feb. 25, 1964 file photo, Cassius Clay, left, who later became Muhammad Ali, fights Sonny Liston during their heavyweight title match in Miami Beach, Fla. They met as the nation was on the eve of massive change. Still deep in mourning over the assassination of President John F. Kennedy just three months earlier, the country would be rocked by race riots in major cities in the long, hot summer ahead. Civil rights activism was gearing up, the conflict in Vietnam was moving into U.S. headlines, there was new music in the air. (AP Photo)

Becoming Ali: Fight 50 years ago launched icon

By TIM DAHLBERG - Associated Press

ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, FEB. 23, 2014 AND THEREAFTER - FILE - In this Feb. 25, 1964 file photo, Cassius Clay, left, who later became Muhammad Ali, fights Sonny Liston during their heavyweight title match in Miami Beach, Fla. They met as the nation was on the eve of massive change. Still deep in mourning over the assassination of President John F. Kennedy just three months earlier, the country would be rocked by race riots in major cities in the long, hot summer ahead. Civil rights activism was gearing up, the conflict in Vietnam was moving into U.S. headlines, there was new music in the air. (AP Photo)

Becoming Ali: Fight 50 years ago launched icon

By TIM DAHLBERG - Associated Press

ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, FEB. 23, 2014 AND THEREAFTER - FILE - In this Feb. 18, 1964 file photo, Cassius Clay poses with The Beatles, from left, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrison, while visiting the heavyweight boxing contender at his training camp in Miami Beach, Fla. Fifty years ago, these future legends met through a chance of publicity matchmaking. (AP Photo)

When Beatles met boxer who’d become Muhammad Ali

By TIM DAHLBERG - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 9, 1978, file photo, Ken Norton, right, follows through with his right as Larry Holmes misses during an early round of their heavyweight championship fight in Las Vegas. Norton, a former heavyweight champion, has died, his son said, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013. He was 70. (AP Photo/File_

Ken Norton dies at 70; former heavyweight champ beat Ali

By Tim Dahlberg - Associated Press

David Frost won worldwide fame for his interviews with former President Richard Nixon. His family said he died of a heart attack Saturday aboard the Queen Elizabeth II cruise ship, where he was due to give a speech. (Associated Press Photographs)

David Frost, the interviewer who cracked Nixon’s shell, leaves a historic legacy

By James Rosen - Special to The Washington Times

Miami’s Larranaga, Michigan’s Burke win AP awards

By JIM O'CONNELL - Associated Press

Ali’s daughter: The Greatest is OK, watching game

By TIM DAHLBERG - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 2, 2013, file photo, former boxing legend Muhammad Ali arrives at the Sugar Bowl football game in New Orleans. Muhammad Ali's daughter knocked down rumors of her father being near death Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013, saying he was at home watching NFL football's Super Bowl. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)

Muhammad Ali fine, watched Super Bowl on TV, daughter says

By Tim Dahlberg - Associated Press

Ali’s daughter: The Greatest is OK, watching game

By TIM DAHLBERG - Associated Press

Muhammad Ali, with his wife, Lonnie, waves to friends at a party for his 70th birthday at the Muhammad Ali Center in his hometown, Louisville, Ky., on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012. The event, a fundraiser for the center, was the first of five planned in his honor. (Associated Press)

Brother: Muhammad Ali ‘could be dead in days’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times