{"id":314052,"date":"2025-08-03T08:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T08:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/314052\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T08:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T08:22:10","slug":"rahaman-ali-younger-brother-of-boxing-icon-muhammad-ali-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/314052\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahaman Ali, younger brother of boxing icon Muhammad Ali, dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/hale_andreas.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\"\/>\n<p>Andreas HaleAug 3, 2025, 03:07 AM<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>Andreas Hale is a combat sports reporter at ESPN. Andreas covers MMA, boxing and pro wrestling. In Andreas&#8217; free time, he plays video games, obsesses over music and is a White Sox and 49ers fan. He is also a host for Sirius XM&#8217;s Fight Nation. Before joining ESPN, Andreas was a senior writer at DAZN and Sporting News. He started his career as a music journalist for outlets including HipHopDX, The Grammys and Jay-Z&#8217;s Life+Times. He is also an NAACP Image Award-nominated filmmaker as a producer for the animated short film &#8220;Bridges&#8221; in 2024.<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rahaman Ali, the younger brother of boxing icon Muhammad Ali, has died at age 82.<\/p>\n<p>The Muhammad Ali Center announced that Rahaman died Friday in Louisville, Kentucky. The cause of death was not revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Rahaman followed in the footsteps of his older brother with a professional boxing career that ran from 1964 to 1972, compiling a record of 14-3-1. After his retirement, Rahaman was often by Muhammad&#8217;s side and trained with him.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/>Rahaman Ali boxed professionally from 1964 to 1972, compiling a record of 14-3-1.\u00a0AP Photo<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, Rahaman co-authored a book with boxing writer H. Ron Brashear titled &#8220;That&#8217;s Muhammad Ali&#8217;s Brother! My Life on the Undercard&#8221; and followed that with a second book in 2019 titled &#8220;My Brother, Muhammad Ali: The Definitive Biography.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can&#8217;t tell Muhammad&#8217;s story without mentioning Rahaman,&#8221; said DeVone Holt, president and CEO of the Muhammad Ali Center. &#8220;He was one of the most constant sources of support for Muhammad during this career and their relationship was a true example of what it means to be &#8216;my brother&#8217;s keeper.'&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andreas HaleAug 3, 2025, 03:07 AM Close Andreas Hale is a combat sports reporter at ESPN. Andreas covers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-314052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114963870119704475","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}