Muhammad Ali has posted a selfie on Twitter showing him looking frail but in apparently good health after two recent spells in hospital had raised renewed fears over his well-being.
Ali, who was diagnosed with Parkinson's in 1984, has a Twitter account registered under the handle @MuahmmadAli, but seldom tweets himself - marking those by him with the hashtag #AliTweet.
In the latest tweet, Ali congratulates his daughter Laila Ali on becoming the first female boxing analyst with NBC television show Premier Boxing Champions.
Laila, 37, is herself a retired professional boxer.
She is the eighth of Muhammad Ali's nine children.
"So proud of @TheRealLailaAli, my baby girl. 1st female boxing analyst with NBC Premier Boxing Champions. #AliTweet " wrote Ali.
An earlier selfie posted to Instagram by Ali three months ago was "liked" by more than 27,000 users.
Muhammad Ali was released from hospital on Jan 16 after receiving treatment for a severe urinary tract infection, a family spokesman said.
Just weeks earlier, he had been hospitalised for a fornight with suspected pneumonia.
Last month,the boxing gloves worn by Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston during their infamous 1965 rematch fight fetched nearly $1 million (£650,000) at an auction in New York.
The gloves from the bout in Lewiston, Maine on May 25, 1965 – which Ali famously won with a first-round knockout from what some saw as a “phantom punch” – were picked up by George Russo, the boxing commissioner for Maine, and later sold on to a collector in California.
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