Laila Ali Biography
Laila Ali is a former professional boxer from the United States who competed from 1999 until 2007. She was the WBC, WIBA, IWBF, and IBA female super middleweight champion, as well as the IWBF light heavyweight champion. Ali is regarded as one of the finest female professional boxers of all time, having retired unbeaten.
How old is Laila Ali? – Age
She is 45 years old as of 30 December 2022. She was born in 1977 in Miami Beach, Florida, United States. Her real name is Laila Amaria Ali.
Laila Ali Family – Education
She was born to Muhammad Ali, and Veronica Porché Ali. She has eight siblings; Muhammad Ali Jr., Rasheda Ali, Hana Ali, Maryum Ali, Asaad Amin, Miya Ali, Jamillah Ali, and Khaliah Ali. She was reared as a Muslim but eventually abandoned it, despite her father’s disapproval. At the age of 16, Ali worked as a manicurist. She earned a business degree from Santa Monica College in California. Before she started boxing, she ran her own nail salon. Ali claims that her father was opposed to her plan to become a boxer because of his Muslim faith.
Laila Ali Husband
Ali married former NFL player Curtis Conway in Los Angeles on July 23, 2007. They are the parents of two children: a son born in August 2008 and a daughter born in April 2011. Conway’s three children are raised by Ali. Hulk Hogan, a professional wrestler, credited Ali with saving his life by calling him when he was despondent and suicidal. Ali is the sister-in-law of Kevin Casey, a professional mixed martial artist who is married to her sister Hana. Ali withdrew from professional boxing in 2007.
Laila Ali Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $10 Million.
Laila Ali Boxer – Career
She originally promoted her choice to turn into an expert fighter in a Decent Morning America interview with Diane Sawyer. At the point when she originally told her dad, Muhammad Ali that she intended to box expertly, he was despondent about her entering such a risky calling. In her most memorable match, on October 8, 1999, the 5-foot-10-inch (1.78 m), 166-pound (75 kg), 21-year-old Ali boxed April Fowler of Michigan City, Indiana. They battled at the Turning Stone Hotel and Gambling club on the Oneida Indian Country in Verona, New York. Albeit this was Ali’s most memorable match, numerous columnists and fans joined in, to a great extent since she was Muhammad Ali’s little girl.
Consideration regarding Ali’s ring debut was additionally helped in light of the fact that it happened just before what should be the very first male-female expert session to be endorsed by a US state boxing commission – later managed a presentation. As WomenBoxing.com makes sense of: “The close arrangement of the two occasions concentrated on female expert boxing than there had been since Christy Martin’s 1996 compensation for each view battle with Deirdre Gogarty.” Ali took out Fowler – portrayed by WomenBoxing.com as an “rusty fledgling” – in the principal round. Ali likewise dominated her second game by a technical knockout with just 3 seconds left at work. In that match her rival was 5’4″ Shadina Pennybaker, from Pittsburgh, who was making an ace presentation in the wake of procuring a 2-1 record as a beginner. They battled at the Mountain dweller Gambling club, Circuit and Resort in Chester, West Virginia.
Ali caught nine successes in succession and many boxing fans communicated a craving to see her square off in a boxing ring with George Foreman’s girl, Freeda Foreman or Joe Frazier’s little girl, Jacqui Frazier-Lyde. On the night of June 8, 2001, Ali and Frazier at last met. The battle was nicknamed Ali/Frazier IV in mention to their dads’ popular battle set of three. Ali won by a larger part judges’ choice in eight rounds (79-73, 77-75, 76-76). Frazier-Lyde finished the battle with an enlarged eye while Ali had a broken left collarbone and a bloodied nose. This match by Ali and Frazier was the principal headliner pay-per-view match between two ladies. Following a year’s break, on June 7, 2002, Ali beat Shirvelle Williams in a six-round choice.
She brought home the IBA championship with a second-round knockout of Suzette Taylor on August 17, 2002, in Las Vegas. On November 8, she held that title and bound together the crown by adding the WIBA and IWBF belts with an eight-round technical knockout win over her division’s other title holder, Valerie Mahfood, in Las Vegas. Ali halted a bloodied Mahfood in eight rounds. On June 21, 2003, Mahfood and Ali battled a rematch, this time in Los Angeles. Once more bloodied by Ali, Mahfood lost by technical knockout in six rounds while attempting to recuperate her reality title. In any case, Ali experienced a terrible cut on her right eyelid without precedent for her profession, caused by Mahfood. Ali likewise languished a bloodied nose over the second time in her profession during this battle, the first being in Ali’s battle with Frazier-Lyde two years beforehand. On August 23, 2003, Ali battled her unique motivation, Christy Martin, beating Martin by a knockout in four rounds.[19] On July 17, 2004, Ali held her reality title, taking out Nikki Eplion in four rounds.
On July 30, 2004, she halted Monica Nunez in nine rounds, in her dad’s local city of Louisville, Kentucky. This battle was essential for the undercard for the battle where Mike Tyson was shockingly taken out by periphery competitor Danny Williams. On September 24, 2004, Ali added the IWBF Light Heavyweight title to her resume by beating Gwendolyn O’Neil (whom she had prior dropped a battle against) by a knockout in three rounds, at Atlanta, Georgia. On February 1, 2005, in Atlanta, Ali scored a directing and unequivocal eighth-round TKO over Cassandra Geiggar in a ten-round battle.
On June 11, 2005, on the undercard to the Tyson-Kevin McBride battle, Ali crushed Erin Toughill in cycle three to stay undefeated and brought home the World Confining Chamber championship expansion to guarding her WIBA crown.[24] She was the second lady to come out on top for a WBC championship (Jackie Nava was the first). Toughill and Ali loathed one another, and before the quarrel Toughill kidded over Ali. Ali guaranteed she would rebuff Toughill, similar as her dad did with Ernie Terrell back in 1967. On December 17, 2005, in Berlin, Ali battled and crushed Åsa Sandell by technical knockout in the fifth round. Following Ali’s extreme right to Sandell’s face with 17 seconds staying in Cycle 5, Sandell was struck by various undefended shots to her head. The official halted the session with 12 seconds remaining. Muhammad Ali was in participation and kissed his girl.
While a visitor on In all honesty with Stephen A. Smith on June 7, 2006, Ali declared that she would make a world visit, and said that she was anticipating battling Ann Wolfe in October 2006. Be that as it may, the battle with Wolfe won’t ever emerge. All things considered, on November 11, 2006, Ali battled and crushed Shelley Burton by technical knockout in the fourth round. Ali was rescheduled to battle O’Neil in Cape Town, on August 5, 2006, however Ali pulled out in the midst of claims of misrepresentation. The match in the long run occurred in South Africa on February 2, 2007. Ali crushed O’Neil in the first-round by TKO. It was Ali’s last proficient battle.