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That probably led to him being beaten up too much in the ring, and that probably worsened the trauma to his brain. >> reporter: the boxer, once so fleet of foot, could not sidestep his illness, but he raised awareness of parkinson's and became a champion for others living with the disease. no surprise. that's what a champion does. even as his illness progressed, ali remained a figure of grace under pressure. he helped raise more than $100 million for the muhammad ali parkinson's center in phoenix. >> pelley: fascinating, jon. thank you. when we come back, a celebration for the first family. ,,...

And weather, always on cbssf.com. ♪ ♪ >> pelley: requiem for a heavyweight. >> i will always think of muhammad as a truly free man of faith. >> ali! ali! >> ali! ali! >> pelley: louisville, america, and the world say farewell to muhammad ali. >> we all are here for the greatest man on earth, that's muhammad ali. muhammad ali is the man! >> pelley: he had fists of steel. >> one of the things that he would tell people, "it's not bragging if you can back it up." and look at how many times he backed it up. >> pelley: and a heart of gold. >> i can specifically tell you that they played patty ca...

Years later, it morphed into a shuffling gait, a classic sign of parkinson's, and the louisville lip-- >> i'm going to float like a butterfly and sting like a bee. >> reporter: --gave way to silence. >> it was the slowness of movement that was his limiting factor at that time. >> reporter: dr. stanley fahn, a neurologist specializing in parkinson's was the first doctor to diagnose his condition. it was 1984. >> i saw immediately he had a masked face-- that is, decreased expression. he had decreased blinking, and he had a typical parkinson's tremor. >> reporter: parkinson's is most common in ol...

Gregg: muhammad ali's funeral is set for friday. 15,000 tickets were distributed, all gone by mid-morning. it's a public funeral to be held in ali's hometown. he helped define the 20th century and the civil rights movement. he died at age 74 after a long battle with parkinson's disease. bill clinton and bryant gumble will all deliver you'll jis. president obama cannot attend but a statement will be read. melissa: did you play with blocks as a kid. there is a new block that represents computer command

>> george foreman. he did it. he's champion again. we couldn't believe it. >> it was such a classic performed, so beautiful, that at the moment ali hit the knockout punch, foreman began to go -- ali followed him around. ali had his right cocked for one more punch but he never threw it. he didn't want to ruin the aesthetic of this man going down. >> i think one has mixed emotions at the end of the fight. i feel enormous sympathy for the man who's losing it. really when you see a titanic, formidable figure suddenly on the ground. >> now when we see george on television and know that after that k...