![]() Then he had the shuffle-walk and he had the rigidity. “You’ll get the tremors first most of the time, like 70 percent. ![]() “My dad’s early-on symptoms were slurred speech and tremors,” says Ali, a pretty woman with a diamond nose stud, lounging on the sofa in her Plaza Hotel suite. When The Greatest was diagnosed at age 42, after 30 punishing years in the ring, having started sparring as a 12-year-old in Louisville, Kentucky, his slurred speech was an early symptom-a cruel irony for a pop-culture icon who is celebrated as much for his virtuosic mouth as for his pugilistic artistry. ![]() “We’re like, ‘Oh Daddy, you sound so great! Oh my God, you sound awesome!’ You just never know when those days are.” “Certain times of the day, he’s like, here’s an opportunity, and he’ll call all the kids,” says Rasheda Ali, one of the 71-year-old boxing legend’s nine children. ![]()
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