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		</div><p>Boxing legend Muhammad Ali has died at 74, a family spokesman said.</p>
<p>The three-time world heavyweight champion, who had battled Parkinson&#8217;s disease for 32 years, was admitted to hospital with a respiratory condition earlier in the week.</p>
<p>His family&#8217;s spokesman Bob Gunnell confirmed Ali&#8217;s death in Phoenix, Arizona, on Friday evening local time.</p>
<p>The funeral will take place in Ali&#8217;s home town of Louisville, Kentucky.</p>
<p>A statement from the spokesman said the Ali family &#8220;would like to thank everyone for their thoughts, prayers and support&#8221; and asked for privacy.</p>
<p>Ali, hailed as &#8220;The Greatest&#8221;, is survived by his fourth wife Lonnie &#8211; whom he married in 1986 &#8211; and multiple children, many of whom were reported to have flown to their father&#8217;s bedside on Thursday and Friday.</p>
<p>He had been admitted to hospital most recently in early 2015 when he was treated for a severe urinary tract infection initially diagnosed as pneumonia.</p>
<p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/image-31.jpeg"><img src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/image-31.jpeg" alt="Muhammad Ali" width="497" height="325" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-91526" /></a></p>
<p>At his last public appearances, he looked increasingly frail, including on April 9 when he wore sunglasses and was hunched over at the annual Celebrity Fight Night dinner in Phoenix, which raises funds for Parkinson&#8217;s treatment.</p>
<p>Ali has suffered from Parkinson&#8217;s for three decades and trembled badly while lighting the Olympic torch in 1996 in Atlanta.</p>
<p>Doctors say the Parkinson&#8217;s was probably caused by the thousands of punches Ali took during a career in which he travelled the world for big fights.</p>
<p>Tributes quickly flooded in for Ali, born Cassius Clay, as news of his death broke.</p>
<p>George Foreman, Ali&#8217;s friend and rival from the famous &#8220;Rumble in the Jungle&#8221; fight, said: &#8220;We were like one guy &#8211; part of me is gone.&#8221;</p>
<p>He said he wanted Ali to be remembered as a &#8220;brave&#8221; humanitarian and not just a boxer.</p>
<p>He said: &#8220;Muhammad Ali was one of the greatest human beings I have ever met. No doubt he was one of the best people to have lived in this day and age.</p>
<p>&#8220;To put him as a boxer is an injustice.&#8221;</p>
<p>He also spoke of Ali&#8217;s love for the UK and the way he was treated in the country.</p>
<p>&#8220;He loved London. If he had been born and raised in London he never would have changed his name,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson tweeted: &#8220;God came for his champion. So long great one. @MuhammadAli #TheGreatest #RIP.&#8221;</p>
<p>Another former heavyweight boxing champion, Evander Holyfield told MSNBC: &#8220;I&#8217;m glad to have known Ali because when I was a kid, at eight years old, I was told I would be like Ali.</p>
<p>&#8220;To take it upon yourself and say, &#8216;I&#8217;m the greatest&#8217;, you put yourself in a position for people to take pot shots at you. This is what Ali did. It&#8217;s amazing him becoming three-time heavyweight champion of the world. At that time people thought, &#8216;Who could beat three?</p>
<p>&#8220;You have to be stronger to get up from a loss to go on and that&#8217;s what Ali proved to be.&#8221;</p>
<p>His biographer Thomas Hauser told the BBC that Ali was &#8220;beautiful inside and beautiful outside&#8221;. He tweeted that Ali&#8217;s death was &#8220;the passing of a legend&#8221;.</p>
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Muhanned Ali was the last of the legends left.