Today is his birthday: Muhammad Ali was released from the hospital (VIDEO)

Boxing legend Muhammad Ali, after he was hospitalized on Thursday for the second time in the last four weeks, due to urinary tract infections, was released home, reports Anadolu Agency (AA).

Previously, due to urinary tract infections in the hospital for 18 days and released on 7 January. The famous boxer previously was hospitalized on 20 December on suspicion of complications of pneumonia. Doctors later found to suffer from urinary tract infections, and not from pneumonia.

Today Muhammad Ali turned 73, and he said spokesman Bob Gunnell family, birthday will celebrate at home with family.

But his wife have a home in Paradise Valley, Arizona, Nerrien Springs in Michigan and Louisville.

In recent years, however rarely appeared in public since that fight with Parkinson's disease, but still enjoys going out and monitoring of sporting events, as well as having fun with friends.

But he retired from boxing in 1981 and devoted himself to humanitarian activities.

Muhammad Ali real name Cassius Marcellus Clay was born in Louisville, 17th 1st 1942, according to many estimates considered the greatest boxer of the 20th century.