From the archive: Muhammad Ali considers retirement in 1975
23 June 2019 05:00
Sports writer Hugh McIlvanney tries to keep up with the great boxerThe legendary sports writer Hugh McIlvanney, who died earlier this year, wrote about ‘The mad world of Muhammad Ali’ for the 23 March 1975 issue of the Observer Magazine. McIlvanney had previously interviewed Ali just hours after the Rumble in the Jungle fight in Zaire in 1974 and here he turned his attention to just what Ali was going to do after he retired from boxing.Ali is pictured standing outside one of two tower blocks he was planning to buy in Chicago, aiming to do the same as his neighbour, the Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad. ‘They’ll cost me millions, but they’ll make me money while I’m asleep.’ Continue readingread full article
