Rahman Ali, the younger brother of boxer Muhammad Ali, passed away Friday at the age of 82.

Rahman was known as Muhammad Ali's biggest supporter and followed in his big brother's footsteps with a professional boxing career from 1964 to 1972.

He also wrote two books on his brother's life and career.

DeVaughn Holt, the president and CEO of the Muhammad Ali Center, shared his thoughts on Rahman Ali's passing.

When Muhammad passed, I think many of us started to see Rahman more, especially in Louisville.

He'd show up at, more events, almost as if he had an obligation to to represent his brother and to help keep his legacy alive.

I noticed that in my short 18 years so far here at the Muhammad Ali Center, when anytime we opened the doors, anytime we had, a recognition and a celebration of his brother.

He wanted to be there.

It was almost like it was his duty, to make sure that he was there to help celebrate, recognize and honor his brother's life and legacy and make sure that it continued.

And so, I do feel like he carry, a special, weight.

Once his brother passed to make sure that that life and legacy, was continued in the work that he did in Louisville and beyond.

You've got to remember, Rahman was a boxer, too.

He he knew and understood what it mean to be a boxer.

And he took that with him in the public spaces.

And so you didn't see him walk around and as loud and as boisterous as his brother.

But on so many occasions with me and other people in the community, you know, he would do what you see trainers do in a boxer's ear, in the corner, doing during the the breaks and the fights.

He would whisper in our ears, keep fighting.

You doing good, champ.

Keep moving.

The world needs you.

Keep pressing.

Those are messages he would give me.

It wasn't loud.

It wasn't for the rest of the world to hear, but it was almost as if he was still taking the spirit of a boxing coach or a boxing trainer.

And encourage people, in the same way that he saw Muhammad encouraged many, many years ago to make sure that people knew that that that he saw them, that he valued them, that he appreciated them, and that he gave them whatever sense of encouragement he could to continue on the righteous journey that they found themselves on.

He added that the leadership at the Muhammad Ali Center is having conversations with the family to determine the best way to honor Rahman Ali as part of the Ali Center in the future.