Laila Amaria Ali:
(born December 30, 1977) is a former professional boxer. She is the daughter of boxing legend Muhammad Ali from his third wife Veronica Porsche Ali. Laila has a total of eight brothers and sisters. She has six sisters, (half-sisters) Rasheeda, Jamilla, Maryum, Miya, Khalilah and older sister Hana (born March 27, 1976 to Ali and mother Veronica), an author and poet. Her two brothers are half-brothers Muhammed, Jr. and Asaad. Laila's father, Muhammad Ali, is a retired three-time world heavyweight boxing champion. Laila's mother, Veronica Porsche Ali, is a former model.
Laila Ali began her boxing career when she was 15 years old. When she first noticed women's boxing she was watching a Christy Martin fight. She first came out about the news on the morning show Good Morning America when interviewing with Diane Sawyer. On the show Ali quoted "I've been contemplating doing it since I was 18, ever since I found out that women boxed". When Laila first told her father, Muhammad Ali, that she was planning on pursing a boxing career he was not happy about her going into such a dangerous profession. But Laila explained to her father that she was going to box whether he liked it or not and that she was going to be very careful when she is in the ring. In her first match, on December 8, 1999, she boxed April Fowler of Michigan City, Indiana. They fought at the Turning Stone Casino Convention Center on the Oneida Indian Nation in Verona, New York. Although this was Laila's first match, many media and fans were there, the main reason being because she is Muhammad Ali's daughter. Ali knocked out April Fowler in the first round. Ali also won her second match by a TKO with only 3 seconds left on the clock.
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