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My Take
Carrying the most famous surname in boxing could have crushed anyone, but Laila Ali turned it into rocket fuel. What impresses me most is not the undefeated record itself — it is that she retired at the top, on her own terms, in a sport that rarely lets champions leave gracefully. Every fight she took came with an impossible comparison built in, and she answered with victories and zero excuses. Her second act as a television personality shows the same discipline: she builds, she does not coast. To me, she proves that a legacy is not inherited — it is renegotiated, fight by fight, until the name belongs to you too.
Overview
Laila Amaria Ali (born December 30, 1977) is an American television personality and retired professional boxer who competed from 1999 to 2007. During her career, from which she retired undefeated, she held the WBC, WIBA, IWBF and IBA female super middleweight titles, and the IWBF light heavyweight title. Ali is widely regarded by many within the sport as one of the greatest female professional boxers of all time.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Laila Ali
- Name (Japanese)
- レイラ・アリ
- Reading
- れいら・あり
- Born
- December 30, 1977 (age 48)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Capricorn / Snake
- Origin
- Miami Beach, Florida, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 179 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- boxer / television personality
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Santa Monica College
Awards & achievements
- International Women's Boxing Hall of Fame
- 2021 International Boxing Hall of Fame
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Boxer — see all → · Television personality — see all → · More people from United States →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.