Laila Ali getting ready to bring in a new champion

Laila Ali, daughter of a champion, a man who broke down barriers and wooed the world over. He goes by the name Muhammad Ali, known to many before the name change as Cassius Clay. However this is not about the father to whom we have grown to measure our current gladiators by, no, not at all. This is about a daughter who had an ability to get out there and lay out a legacy of her own. She took all punches and returned them just the same.

Laila Ali, one of the greatest if not the top of the pack, of female boxers who can get in the ring with the best of them on technique alone male or female. She has retired at the top of her form, breaking all social barriers placed on female athletes. Now she is taken on a challenge that will last for the rest of her life and that is Motherhood. The retired boxer is expecting her first child with husband former NFL player Curtis Conway. The former boxer is speaking candid and exclusively with womens magazine, Essence, for their up & coming may issue, she states a few things and leaves a clue that she may not be all the much in a rush to know the sex of the baby.

“I don’t know yet if we are having a boy or a girl, but I’m excited that I have a life inside me that my husband and I created,” Ali stated.

Ali at the age of 30 alongside husband Conway 36, this is the perfect time to settle in a create new things. With her currently hosting the American Gladiator which is a prime time hit alongside, Terry"Hulk" Hogan, she knows what the road to success looks like and it comes from raw perseverance that she is no stranger of. “Curtis is very calm and has a quiet confidence, and he wanted what I wanted—to be married and have a family,” says the former boxer, who retired undefeated as the women’s super middleweight champion.

She is giving off a calm top of the mountain aura ,to those who are coming in contact with her and what she has stated may be a further clue, Also, “I am 100 percent undeniably happy,” Ali says. “I've never been able to say that before.”


So I guess we can sit back and watch her life unfold into a positive direction and share in this experience with a woman that has broken down many barriers, and proved capable of a task once set aside for the male. She has done it all and has her sites set on doing even more. Lets wish her the best of luck!

Will the child be a Male or Female? Will the new generation take to boxing? These are some questions that will come up over time. I would be lying if I said I was not curious.

Congratulation Laila and Curtis!