Muhammad Ali is known around the world as a champion, but those who knew him best say he was a living superhero! According to one p...
Muhammad Ali is known around the world as a champion, but those who knew him best say he was a living superhero! According to one pal, the boxing legend once saved a suicidal Vietnam vet from jumping off a ledge — and then he got the man a job and an apartment and stayed in touch with him for years.
That incredible act of compassion was no surprise to one of Ali’s closest friends, photographer Howard Bingham.
“Ali has a secret side that nobody knows,” Bingham told Radar in an exclusive interview.
Bingham – author of the book Muhammad Ali, A Thirty-Year Journey — revealed that the boxing champ also wrote a $100,000 check to keep an elderly community centre from closing, secretly gave a diamond ring worth thousands of dollars to a little girl in a wheelchair and routinely gave $100 bills to impoverished people he met on the streets!
The photographer’s friendship with Ali began back in 1962 in Los Angeles, when Bingham drove by the Sports Arena and saw Ali – then known as Cassius Clay – standing outside.
“I offered to show him around town,” Bingham said.
“I’ve been his friend ever since.”
Many detractors only remember the boastful Ali who used to recite poetry and predict the round in which he would defeat his opponent. Or they remember the angry Ali who refused to fight in the Vietnam War and converted to Islam.
But through the years.
Source Radar online.
