Last Public Photo of Muhammad Ali Revealed

Heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali stands over fallen challenger Sonny Liston, shouting and gesturing shortly after dropping Liston with a short hard right to the jaw in Lewiston, Maine, on May 25, 1965. The bout lasted only one minute into the first round. Ali is the only man ever to win the world heavyweight boxing championship three times. He also won a gold medal in the light-heavyweight division at the 1960 Summer Olympic Games in Rome as a member of the U.S. Olympic boxing team. In 1964, he dropped the name Cassius Clay and adopted the Muslim name Muhammad Ali. (AP Photo/John Rooney)

Muhammad Ali, the former heavyweight champion of the world, dubbed “The Greatest,” died at the at age of 74 on Friday.

“After a 32-year battle with Parkinson’s disease, Muhammad Ali has passed away at the age of 74. The three-time World Heavyweight Champion boxer died this evening,” spokesman Bob Gunnell said in a statement, according to ET.com.

Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay), the deposed world heavyweight boxing champion, told an anti-war rally at the University of Chicago on May 11, 1967, that there is a difference between fighting in the ring and fighting in Vietnam. (AP Photo/Charles Harrity)

Perspiration flies from the head of George Foreman as he takes a right from challenger Muhammad Ali in the seventh round in the match dubbed Rumble in the Jungle in Kinshasa, Zaire, Oct. 30, 1974. Foreman was knocked out in the eighth round. The referee (L) is Zack Clayton. (AP Photo/Ed Kolenovsky)

Muhammad Ali on April 22nd, 1995 (BONGARTS/Getty Images)

George Foreman, Ali’s friend and rival, told the BBC: “We were like one guy—part of me is gone.”

“Muhammad Ali was one of the greatest human beings I have ever met. No doubt he was one of the best people to have lived in this day and age,” he said. “To put him as a boxer is an injustice.”

Ex-heavyweight champ Evander Holyfield told MSNBC: “I’m glad to have known Ali because when I was a kid, at eight years old, I was told I would be like Ali.”

Sonny Liston, in black trunks, is seen just before Muhammad Ali's "phantom punch" that knocked him out in 1 minute, 42 seconds of the first round during their heavyweight championship bout in Lewiston, Maine on May 25, 1965. (AP Photo/STF)

Former world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali (L) and U.S. titleholder George Foreman (R) fight in Kinshasa, Zaire, on Oct. 30, 1974, during their world heavyweight championship match. Ali won by knocking out Foreman in the eighth round. (AFP/Getty Images)