The fact that he was still married was a technicality. Yet one week before the match, which Ali won in a surprise upset, he proposed.
Veronica Porche was a UCLA freshman who had won a contest to help promote the African event. It’s the match that brought her parents together.Īli was still married to his second wife, Belinda Boyd. But for Hana, the fight holds a special significance. It matched Ali with a younger, stronger champion. Held in Zaire, “The Rumble in the Jungle” was a truly international event. The bout was remarkable for many reasons. But it was the fight with George Foreman in 1974 that figures the largest in this book. His early matches with Joe Frazier, each fighter taking one by decision, were legendary. And for the first time, Hana's mother Veronica will share her memories of the 12-year relationship with Muhammad.Īt Home with Muhammad Ali is a candid and revealing portrait of a legend, a man admired and respected as the greatest sporting icon of our age.Still, it would be three years before he could resume his career. Additionally, Hana tells of the everyday adventures that the family experienced around the house-with visitors like Michael Jackson and Clint Eastwood dropping by. With the decline of Ali's voice, his recordings are important to history as they are to his personal legacy.Īt Home with Muhammad Ali offers a candid look at a man who was trying to find his purpose in the world as he realized he was coming to the end of his lucrative sporting career, all the while trying to balance fatherhood and his worldly and political obligations. Through audio journals, love letters and cherished memories, Ali's daughter Hana tells the story of a very typical and yet fully-unique family, the rise and fall of her parent's marriage and the struggles they faced as a family surrounding Ali's loss to Larry Holmes in 1981. From the daughter of Muhammad Ali comes an intimate portrait of the heavyweight boxing champion and a final love letter from a daughter to her father.
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