“I Was Kind of Pissed”: Laila Ali Was Fuming After Muhammad Ali Kept 17-Year-Old Secret From Her

If you belive that Laila Ali, the former two-weight division world champ, widely regarded as one of the greatest female fighters took to boxing because her father was the greatest heavyweight champion ever then you are living with the wrong notion. Her story of pursuing the sport is totally different. Though she agrees boxing was in her veins, she never got support from her father, who himself built his stature in the ring.

It is in the latter part of her career when she became world champ following bulk of hardships that transformed her father’s thought process. Despite being a revolutionary figure out of the ring, the latter was the kind of man who believed that boxing was not for females. This is the reason he never englightened his daughter with the thought that she could ever try to become a professional fighter.

In an interview with NBC Nightly News, she said, “It’s not my story at all and of course, I have that same blood running through my veins and Ali in my DNA. Yeah, it’s a little bit no you have a little credit for that. But I actually did not want to box myself until I saw women’s boxing on television for the first time when I was about 17.”

She continued, “Turn on the TV watching Mike Tyson like I didn’t even know it existed. That was amazing. I was kind of pissed off how do I not know this yeah.”

She was always a fighter and the thought of pursuing boxing professionally was ignited for the first time following this incident.

What was Laila Ali doing before deciding to become a professional boxer?

Do you believe that the daughter of Mohammad Ali was unaware of female boxing for the most part of her early life? But it was so. When she got triggered by Tyson’s fight, she had a nail salon.

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It was her first dream. She even went to school to do nails and got her license to start a business. When she moved out of her parent’s house to live alone she wanted to be an entrepreneur as a result she started the salon.

She never even came close to the thought of becoming a fighter.

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