A captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise. A fool pitier. A baseball legend who is ineligible for that sport's Hall of Fame. A legendary boxer will soon join the list of celebrity inductees into the World ...
From larger-than-life heavyweights like Muhammad Ali and Joe Louis to national heroes such as Julio Cesar Chavez and Roberto Duran, some of the greatest sportsmen in history made their name in the ...
Muhammad Ali could have just been a boxer. His meteoric rise saw him smash records left and right, defying all the odds, and ...
When Oleksandr Usyk faces off against Rico Verhoeven in front of the great Pyramids in Giza, he will do something no heavyweight champion has done in fifty years. Verhoeven will challenge for the WBC ...
Taking part in arguably the most high-profile matches in boxing history, the late Muhammad Ali’s record is littered with the biggest wins any pugilist could hope for. Sharing the ring with the ...
Muhammad Ali redefined heavyweight boxing—he broke every rule about how big men should fight. Across 21 years as a professional, Ali won 56 fights (37 by knockout) and lost only 5. Ali turned fights ...
Muhammad Ali once joked that he should be a postage stamp because “that’s the only way I’ll ever get licked.” Now, the three-time heavyweight champion’s quip is becoming reality. Widely regarded as ...
Almost 60 years ago on April 28, 1967, the famous boxer Muhammad Ali said he was a conscientious objector of the Vietnam War ...
After his controversial ban from boxing, Muhammad Ali finally rematched a rather familiar foe, sending him into a sudden retirement from the ring. A year removed from his Fight of the Century shock ...
Chuck Wepner wasn’t the worst fighter ever to be given a shot at a world championship. For all the accounts of his brave but failed challenge of Muhammad Ali 50 years ago, on March 24, 1975, that ...