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There’s a huge series coming to Peacock, and it centers around a Muhammad Ali story!

The limited series Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist has added several actors to its cast, featuring some high-profile names from the modeling and music worlds, as well as big actors.

Production on the series is set to begin this month. It was created and written by Shaye Ogbonna who will co-showrun and executive produce the project alongside Jason Horwitch.

Via Deadline: “The series, based on the eponymous iHeartPodcast, will tell the story of how on the night of Ali’s defeat of Jerry Quarry, which came after he was banned from boxing for refusing to enter the military draft, hundreds of guests at an after-party were robbed at gunpoint, becoming one of the largest armed robberies the country has ever seen. Fight Night, set in Atlanta, will focus on the cop and the hustler, at the center of it all.”

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Will Smith greets other mourners while attending a memorial service for the late Muhammad Ali on Friday (June 10) in Louisville, Kent.

The 47-year-old actor, who got an Oscar nomination for portraying the boxer in the movie Ali, was one of the pall-bearers at the funeral later in the day.

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Mike Tyson was also a pall-bearer and the two joined a bunch of other men while loading the casket into the hearse before the funeral.

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Will Smith is set to be a pallbearer at Muhammad Ali‘s memorial service, according to EW.

The 47-year-old actor, who played Muhammad in the Oscar-nominated film Ali, also paid tribute to the legendary boxer on his Facebook.

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“You shook up the World! My Mentor & My Friend. You changed my Life. Rest in Peace,” he wrote, along with two photos with the late boxer.

Muhammad‘s memorial service will take place on Friday (June 10) in Louisville, KY.

President Barack Obama and his wife, First Lady Michelle Obama, have released a joint statement addressing the death of boxing legend Muhammad Ali.

“Muhammad Ali was The Greatest. Period. If you just asked him, he’d tell you. He’d tell you he was the double greatest; that he’d ‘handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder into jail.’ But what made The Champ the greatest – what truly separated him from everyone else – is that everyone else would tell you pretty much the same thing,” the statement started.

“Like everyone else on the planet, Michelle and I mourn his passing. But we’re also grateful to God for how fortunate we are to have known him, if just for a while; for how fortunate we all are that The Greatest chose to grace our time,” they couple continued.

“In my private study, just off the Oval Office, I keep a pair of his gloves on display, just under that iconic photograph of him – the young champ, just 22 years old, roaring like a lion over a fallen Sonny Liston. I was too young when it was taken to understand who he was – still Cassius Clay, already an Olympic Gold Medal winner, yet to set out on a spiritual journey that would lead him to his Muslim faith, exile him at the peak of his power, and set the stage for his return to greatness with a name as familiar to the downtrodden in the slums of Southeast Asia and the villages of Africa as it was to cheering crowds in Madison Square Garden,” they added.

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Famed professional boxer Muhammad Ali has passed away at the age of 74 on Friday evening (June 3) in Phoenix, AZ.

Muhammad, who was often referred to as one of the greatest heavyweights in the history of boxing, died after a battle with advanced Parkinson’s disease and a respiratory condition, according to TMZ.

Over the course of his career, Muhammad had 56 wins and was awarded an Olympic gold medal as well as “Sportsman of the Century” by Sports Illustrated and “Sports Personality of the Century” by the BBC. He remains the only three-time lineal world heavyweight champion. In 2005, he was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush.

Muhammad is survived by his wife Yolanda Williams and their nine children, including Laila Ali, who also became an undefeated boxing champ.

Our thoughts are with Muhammad‘s family and friends during this difficult time.

Muhammad Ali is currently in the hospital for a respiratory issue, and is in fair condition.

“Ali, who suffers from Parkinson’s disease, is being treated by his team of doctors and is in fair condition. A brief hospital stay is expected. At this time, the Muhammad Ali family respectfully requests privacy,” a spokesperson told Gossip Cop of the 74-year-old boxing legend.

Muhammad‘s last public appearance came in April, when he was seen at the Celebrity Fight Night event.

Our thoughts are with Muhammad and we hope he makes a speedy recovery.