The childhood home of Muhammad Ali is on the market.
The simple pink house in Louisville, Kentucky has been converted into a museum.
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Ali — then known as Cassius Clay — spent his formative years in a two-bedroom, one-bathroom house.
It was put on the market this month along with two neighboring houses that have been converted into a gift shop and short-term rental.
The collection has been valued at £1.1million and co-owner George Bochetto says the ideal buyer would want to keep the property as a museum.
“It’s part of American culture,” said Bochetto, the former Pennsylvania state boxing commissioner.
“It’s part of our history. And it should be viewed that way and respected.”
The museum was opened in 2016, soon after Ali’s death.
Bochetto used photographs to restore it to what it might have looked like when the heavyweight lived there.
He said in 2016: “The moment you enter this house you are transported to 1955 and into the heart of the Clay family home.”
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Ali lived in this house before leaving for the 1960 Rome Olympics – and returned as champion.
The museum ran into financial troubles and closed less than two years after opening.
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There were proposals to move it to Las Vegas, Philadelphia or Saudi Arabia, which were rejected.
Bochetto explained: “I would rather not do it, because it’s an important part of Louisville history, Kentucky history, and I think it should stay where it is.”
In April, a luxurious mansion owned by Ali sold for $13.5 million.
The legendary boxer owned a luxurious seven-bedroom home in Los Angeles from 1979 to 1984.
my peace remained
Muhammad Ali told his greatest story of all time in a chance and heartbreaking meeting with The Sun’s legendary boxing writer Colin Hart.
In December 1981, the 39-year-old Ali suffered the final defeat of his illustrious career, over ten long, difficult rounds against Trevor Berbick.
Ali’s health was in doubt even before the lopsided beating in boxing’s backwaters of the Bahamas.
And six years later, the sad news spread across the world that he was suffering from Parkinson’s disease.
Our man Harty got very different news in Las Vegas in 1987, around the same time as this agonizing diagnosis.
But when he goes to Sin City in search of the baddest man on the planet, he ends up coming across the greatest man of all.
Read our interview here.
