An old video from 1981 showing Muhammad Ali saving a man from committing suicide, has gone viral on the internet.
‘You are my brother! I love you!’
Those were the words. The magic words that stopped a man from jumping out of his ninth-floor window.
It was in 1981 in Los Angeles.
Muhammad Ali had heard the man was sitting on a ledge and preparing to jump to his death.
Ali reportedly sped towards the scene, driving the wrong way down roads with his lights flashing as he raced to make it there in time.
Ignoring the crowds calling out his name, the legendary boxer headed upstairs. He was seen, minutes later, poking his head out of a window further along the building as he tried to convince the man that his life was worth living.
Ali, who died on Friday evening aged 74, leaned out of the window and told the man:
‘You’re my brother. I love you and I wouldn’t lie to you. You got to listen. I want you to come home with me, meet some friends of mine.’
During the tense 20 minutes, the 21-year-old man, from Michigan, was captured telling Ali that no one loved him.
‘Why do you worry about me? I’m a nobody,’ the man told the three-time heavyweight champion of the world.
After miraculously talking the man down, Ali – dressed in a suit and tie – drove him to a police station in his Rolls-Royce and went with him to a psychiatric hospital.
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