Boxing fan accelerates plans to renovate Ali’s boyhood home (The Associated Press)
Muhammad Ali’s brother on Friday recalled their wrestling matches while growing up in their family’s modest Kentucky home. No punches were supposed to be thrown because their parents wouldn’t allow it, Rahman Ali said. It was the home where Muhammad Ali, known then as Cassius Clay, was living when he left for fame as an Olympic gold medalist, launching a career that made him a three-time heavyweight boxing champion. Rahman Ali returned to his boyhood home on Friday with George Bochetto, a Philadelphia lawyer who recently acquired a half interest in the small frame residence with the sagging porch.