IT’S A KNOCKOUT
When Muhammad Ali died two years ago the world remembered a man whose mind was equal in agility and force to his right hook. He retired in 1981 after an extraordinary career but, despite developing Parkinson’s syndrome soon afterwards, carried on his considerable philanthropy and humanitarian work.
This included helping release prisoners of conscience from many political and religious backgrounds around the world.
But for his millions of fans it is his extraordinary boxing talents that Ali is most famous for. This includes bouts against Joe Frazier and Sonny Liston and most notoriously, his Rumble in the Jungle against George Foreman in Zaire on October 30th, 1974.
A year after that fight he bought a secluded 81-acre farm in Michigan next to a river. It was where he spent his summers and some of his retirement years until his Parkinson’s became more advanced and he and his wife Lonnie moved to Arizona.
She is now selling their former farm home near Indiana. Ali designed many of the property’s features and added several buildings as well as doing up the main farmhouse.
This included a large health and fitness centre that includes his personal boxing ring, pictured above, at its centre, while nearby there’s a full-size basketball court, office complex, conference area, two climatecontrolled garages with space for five cars and a separate guest house.
THE property is for sale at $2.895 million with listing agent Tim Mitchell of Cressy & Everett Real Estate. More info from toptenrealestatedeals com