Without question, Muhammad Ali (who died on June 3rd, 2016) transformed the world of sports. Winning the heavyweight title three times — beginning with his shocking upset of Sonny Liston in 1964, which made him the youngest boxer to unseat an incumbent heavyweight champion — Ali is considered, alongside Joe Louis and Sugar Ray Robinson, one of the best boxers ever to enter a ring.
Muhammad Ali’s first wife was Sonji Roi, but Ali did not have any kids with his first wife. He married Belinda Boyd after that. Belinda eventually changed her name to Khalilah.
Apart from the seven kids, Muhammad Ali also had two daughters out of his marriages.
Assad was the last child of Muhammad Ali, and he was raised in a small town in Michigan by Yolanda and Muhammad.
But making it the 10th Child, A 39-year-old woman named Kiiursti Mensah Ali came out to say that she was a love child of Muhammad Ali. This would not be uncommon for Ali, who had two other love children.
He had Miya in 1972 with a woman named Patricia Harvell and another daughter named Khaliah, in 1974.
It all started when her mother Barbara Mensah and Ali had an affair in 1967. Ali met the 17-year-old high school beauty in Houston, Texas.
Mensah has stated that there is a paternity test from 1988 that proves Muhammad Ali is her father. She also said that Ali agreed to having his name on her birth certificate. While growing up, Mensah said that Ali would secretly fly out to visit her and her mother.
She says she was cut out of his life when Ali married his fourth wife Lonnie in 1986 – three years after he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease.
“Muhammad Ali is my dad – but everything changed the moment he married her,” says Kiiursti. He stopped coming to see me. As the years went by he got sicker and sicker. She stopped him having a relationship with me. It’s been devastating. Now, I want to say goodbye to him before he dies. I want her to please let me have that chance. I’m not after his money. I don’t care about that. I make my own. All I want is to spend time with my father especially now he is so ill – but she has control of everything.”
Barbara Mensah was even pictured in Life Magazine next to Ali for a special edition when he refused to go to Vietnam.
Here she is pictured with her Mum Barbara Mensah Ali.
By: Emmanuel Romeo Tetteh
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