A black hearse carrying the body of legendary boxer Muhammad Ali wasled by police escort from a funeral home to Kentucky's Freedom Hall on Thursday morning as mourners lined up for hours to attend the sporting legend's celebration of life service.More than 14,000 thousand mourners will attend the traditional Muslim Jenazah service for the three-time world champion boxer who died Friday at age 74. The service will be broadcast worldwide and streamed online and mark the start of two days of ceremonies honoring the Muslim-convert sports star who died one day after being taken to hospital with breathing problems linked to his lengthy battle with Parkinson's disease.Muslims have traveled from all over the world to stand shoulder-to-shoulder in a Kentucky arena for a final tribute to Ali.




A black hearse carrying the body of legendary boxer Muhammad Ali was led by a police escort from a funeral home on Thursday

The hearse carrying the boxing legend's body left from the A.D. Porter& Sons funeral home in Louisville, Kentucky.

The hearse was followed by a large police escort as it drove through Louisville, Kentucky on Thursday morning.

RIP uncle Ali!

Muhammad Ali will be laid to rest at this site following his funeral service in Louisville, Kentucky on Friday.

Fans of Muhammad Ali waited in line outside Freedom Hall in Lousiville, Kentucky for free tickets to the funeral.

The tickets for the funeral will go to the people who cue up outside the arena as well as the VIPs flying in

Thousands of pepole are expected to line the route of the funeral which is due to take place on Friday.

People wait in line for the box office to open for tickets to Muhammad Ali's memorial service Friday at the KFC Center in Louisville, Ky

Tickets for the Muhammad Ali public memorial service in Downtown Louisville on Friday are all gone.

Rest On Muhammad Ali!

A girl shows her entry ticket to the jenazah, an Islamic funeral prayer, for the late boxing champion Muhammad Ali.

A footbridge decorated with a memorial banner to Muhammad Ali in Louisville, Kentucky.

Actor Will Smith will be among the pallbearers for Muhammad Ali's funeral on Friday (pictured together in 2003).

Smith played Ali in the 2001 movie of the same name, earning an Oscar nomination and becoming a family friend.

Some people spent the night in line on camping chairs and wrapped inblankets to make sure they got tickets.

Honoured before and after death, not many have this privilege. Muhammad Ali was the real definition of greatness and a champion.

Rest well one of the world's greatest.

'I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale, handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick. I'm so mean I make medicine sick.' - Ali said this before the historic Rumble in the Jungle match that took place in 1974 in Zaire against George Foreman.

So boastful and result oriented. In the end, that's all that matters

'I am so fast that last night I turned off the light switch and was in bed before the room was dark.'

Shelton Jones, seven, takes a nap while resting on his mother LatashaHarrison, both of Louisville, as they waited in line.

Fans started lining up outside the arena last night and by 7am, the linesnaked around the KFC Yum! Center in Kentucky, the large sports arena where the ceremony will be held on Friday.

The box office selling tickets to Friday's event was supposed to open at 10am on Wednesday but started handing them out at 8am instead after police became concerned by the growing crowd. Pictured, a fan after picking up his tickets from the box office.

A woman cheers on Wednesday after receiving a set of free tickets to Muhammad Ali's memorial service.

There are dozens of posts on the buy-and-sell website from desperate Ali fans looking for tickets.

Fans of the legendary boxer snapped up 15,000 tickets to the events later this week at the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Kentucky.

following....ticket outlet not in Nigeria

Touts have been caught cashing in on Muhammad Ali's death by selling free tickets for his memorial service for as much as $100 each(Pictured).




'I'm personally disgusted and amazed that someone would try to profit off of Muhammad Ali's memorial service,' Ali family spokesman Bob Gunnell said: 'I hope that those buying tickets or trying to buy tickets would stop those efforts by not purchasing.'Muhammad Ali wanted this to be a free event, an event that was open to all.' Daily Mail Online has contacted Craigslist for comment. Ali's family are holding a private ceremony on Thursday before the public service on Friday.

The box office selling tickets to Friday's event was supposed to open at 10am on Wednesday but started handing them out at 8am instead after police became concerned by the growing crowd. Within about an hour, all 15,000 tickets were gone.
Those who were unable to get their hands on a set of tickets will be able to watch the service on a jumbo-tron outside the arena or online, where it will be streamed.

President Barack Obama will be absent, remaining in Washington, DC, for the high school graduation ceremony of his eldest daughter, Malia.

those touts selling off the free tickets tho

Muhammad Ali's wife, Lonnie (left), and daughter, Laila Ali (center), attend his Jenazah, a traditional Islamic Muslim service, in Freedom Hall on Thursday.

Farewell: The coffin of late boxing champion Muhammad Ali arrives for a Jenazah, which is an Islamic funeral prayer, in Louisville, Kentucky on Thursday.


The three-time world champion boxer's body was wheeled into Freedom Hall by officials for Thursday's Jenazah service.

The coffin carrying Ali's body was wheeled into the Freedom Hall on Thursday as mourners snapped photos and took videos of the somber moment.


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