Pastor Adeboye: Muhammad Ali Was My Hero, The Day I Cried For Him

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian
Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, on Friday,
described the late American professional boxer,
Muhammad Ali, as his ‘hero’.
The cleric, who used to be a boxer, said he once
cried over the health status of Ali, who died in
2016 at the age of 74.
Adeboye spoke at the virtual February 2021 Holy
Ghost Service of the church with the theme, ‘God
Bless You (2)’.
The 78-year-old cleric said, “It is one thing to be a
champion, it is another thing to still be a
champion. I will illustrate this by using
Mohammad Ali of blessed memory.
“He was my hero, incidentally, we were born the
same year and I was a boxer too; not of his class
but I followed every fight that he fought. At least
beginning from Sonny Liston, I can tell you every
person that my hero fought.

“But then, one day I saw him when they asked
him to light the torch for the Olympics and I saw
my hero, the man who used to float like the
butterfly and sting like a bee, I watched him
shaking like the reed blown by the wind. His
hands were shaking and it took a special effort to
hold to the torch and I cried that day.”
“The question I am asking is: ‘Is God an ex-
champion?’ Glory be to God, the God who is going
to bless you is not an ex-champion,” [/b]Adeboye
added during the programme monitored by The
PUNCH.