Laila Ali

Laila Ali is a former professional boxer and television host from the United States. She fought between 1999 and 2007 and retired without a loss, winning female super middleweight world titles from the WBC, WIBA, IWBF and IBA, along with an IWBF light heavyweight belt. Born in Miami Beach, she is the daughter of Muhammad Ali and began boxing at 18 after watching a Christy Martin fight. In her first bout in 1999 she knocked out April Fowler in the opening round, and her 2001 meeting with Jacqui Frazier-Lyde was the first women's main-event pay-per-view match. Many in the sport rank her among the greatest female professional boxers. On television she came third on season four of Dancing with the Stars, co-hosted a revival of American Gladiators with Hulk Hogan, and began hosting Home Made Simple in 2017. She appeared in Falcon Rising (2014) and also worked as a boxing analyst.