Muhammad Ali is celebrating the Super Bowl in good health, according to a family spokesman who denied published reports in England saying the former heavyweight champion is gravely ill and near death.

â€œHe looks great,â€ family spokesman Bob Gunnell told the Louisville Courier-Journal . â€œHeâ€™s having a Super Bowl party.â€

The Courier-Journal also posted a Twitter photo of Ali from his his home in Phoenix wearing a Baltimore Ravens T-shirt.

Ali's family sent other photos to the Chicago Sun-Times , one of which showed Ali wearing a Ray Lewis T-shirt.

â€œMuhammad is enjoying the Super Bowl with his wife Lonnie and his sister-in-law Marilyn and is â€˜coachingâ€™ the Ravens to victory,â€ the Sun-Times quoted an unnamed family member as saying.

Published reports in the UK quoted Ali's brother as saying the 71-year-old former champ can no loner speak and "could die within days."

Rahman Ali told The (London) Sun . "My brother canâ€™t speakâ€”he doesnâ€™t recognize me. Heâ€™s in a bad way. Heâ€™s very sick.

"He told me before he got really bad that he's in no pain. He grabbed my arm and whispered 'Rah, I've achieved everything I've ever wanted to accomplish. Don't cry for me, I'm in no pain.' It's best he goes now. The longer he goes on, so does his suffering and misery," Rahman Ali told The Sun.

Muhammad Ali was born in Louisville, Ky., and went on to become the heavyweight champion with a stunning knockout of Sonny Liston in 1964. That year, Ali joined the Nation of Islam (he was originally named Cassius X) before being named Muhammad Ali.

In 1967, Ali refused to be inducted into the U.S. armed forces. He was convicted of draft evasion and was banned from boxing for three years.

Ali was diagnosed with Parkinsonâ€™s disease in 1984.