Muhammad Ali raises fists with a playful smile in last photoshoot
In the last few photos taken of boxing legend and civil rights icon Muhammad Ali, he dawns shades and puts up his fists.
The portraits, taken two months before the champ passed away on Friday, seem to show the same playful spirit that helped bring about Ali's thunderous stardom.
In an interview after Ali's death, photographer Zenon Texeira discussed getting to snap the last photos of one of his heroes.
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“I feel blessed to have met my all-time sporting hero," Texeira said in an interview with The Sun. “To capture his majesty with such intimacy fulfills a dream.”
“I knew I was in the presence of greatness," Texeira said.
Ali, 74, was frail at the photoshoot at his home in Phoenix, Arizona. He couldn't get into a chair without help, according to The Sun. He died on Friday at a Phoenix-area hospital, after reports of him being in a "grave condition" surfaced just hours before.
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