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Laila Ali announced as special guest for Methodist Healthcare Foundation luncheon
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) – Methodist Healthcare Foundation has announced its special guest for this year’s annual Luncheon: TV host, wellness advocate and former boxing champion Laila Ali.
Laila Ali retired from boxing in 2007 as an undefeated world champion. She went on to star in multiple reality TV shows, including “American Gladiators” and “Dancing with the Stars,” along with her own DIY series called “Home Made Simple with Laila Ali” for the Oprah Winfrey Network.
Ali is passionate about heart health, driven by a personal family connection to heart disease.
Ali will join the Methodist Healthcare Foundation’s annual Luncheon at the Peabody Memphis on Friday, Nov. 20.
One-on-one with boxing great Laila Ali
CNN News Central's Sara Sider speaks with advocate and boxing legend Laila Ali about her work, the legacy of her father Muhammad Ali and being honored at the 41st Annual Great Sports Legends Dinner, which benefits The Buoniconti Fund.
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Laila Ali makes history with Greatest Sports Legends Dinner honor 40 years after iconic father
The night was Oct. 1, 1986. The site, the Waldorf Astoria hotel. The event, the inaugural Greatest Sports Legends Dinner to support the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis.
Less than a year earlier on Oct. 26, 1985, a football player for The Citadel with a familiar last name, Marc Buoniconti, was paralyzed while trying to make a tackle in a game against East Tennessee State.
Buoniconti suffered a dislocation of the C3 and C4 vertebrae, and a severe spinal cord injury which would leave him paralyzed from the shoulders down.
He would have vertebrae fusion surgery to stabilize his neck and begin his lifelong rehabilitation, which included learning to breath without a ventilator and master a breath-controlled wheelchair.
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