![]() Ali Walsh said he has watched most of his grandfather’s fights on tapes. That includes his mother, Rasheda, and his grandmother, who was Belinda Boyd when she married Ali as a 17-year-old. And I still remember that moment to this day.” Much of Ali Walsh’s family will be on hand in Tulsa for his debut, which will be televised on the Top Rank card on ESPN. “Some days he wasn’t able to talk so he would just squeeze my hand. “I was always holding his hand so some days I would hold his hand and say, squeeze it if you want me to grab you a water or do something else for you,” he said. He said he asked Ali to squeeze his hand if he thought he should continue. Once, he said, they were in a car together and Ali Walsh was down on boxing, wondering if he should continue his amateur career. Ali Walsh said the two formed a bond, even as Ali struggled to communicate in his later years before dying in 2016. And that’s just the way I look at it.” Growing up in Las Vegas, Ali Walsh and his family regularly made trips to the Phoenix area to visit his grandfather. ![]() “Mine may seem a little more significant to others b u t a l l boxers feel the pressure of fighting someone, fighting for their lives, basically. “Everyone mentions the pressure but every occupation has pressure of its own,” Ali Walsh said. And while he doesn’t have the bombastic charisma of his grandfather, he’s an engaging young man in his own right. ![]()
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