Muhammad Ali, the boxer and civil rights champion who famously proclaimed himself "The Greatest" is dead.
Ali died on Friday at a Phoenix-area hospital, where he had spent the past few days being treated for respiratory complications. He was 74.
Ali had suffered for three decades from Parkinson's Disease, a progressive neurological condition that slowly robbed him of both his verbal and his physical dexterity.
In his final years, Ali was barely able to speak.