To become a world champion requires a fighter to believe he or she is the greatest. No man embodied this better than Muhammad ...

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 ...

MALABO, Equatorial Guinea — When Muhammad Ali arrived in Africa in 1974, he had already suffered two losses. Many boxing writers and much of the public thought his career was all but over. Now, over ...

On the morning of 1 October 1975, Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier stepped into a boxing ring in the Philippines to duke it out for the heavyweight championship of the world. The “Thrilla in Manila”, ...

(This story was updated to accurately reflect the most current information.) Longtime Erie resident Don Elbaum, whose eight decades as a fighter or promoter warranted 2019 enshrinement for the ...

Foreman waited 15 months to return to the ring following the defeat in Zaire. He had questions to answer and did not expect them to be posed so ferociously by Ron Lyle — the man Foreman later named as ...

Heavyweight boxing champion Claressa Shields had her life dramatized in the 2024 movie “The Fire Inside” but now she’s trying to light a fire under former great Laila Ali to unretire at age 47.

The late Muhammad Ali revealed he once feared death in the ring — even when prevailing in one of the most iconic fights to ever grace the squared circle. Engaged in a three-fight series with the great ...

Echoes of Muhammad Ali’s Rumble In The Jungle As Nico Ali Walsh fights in Africa. Nico Ali Walsh, the grandson of Muhammad Ali, has turned his career around with a win over an undefeated opponent in ...

Former heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali remains hospitalized in the Phoenix area with respiratory issues. In an email to The Associated Press on Friday, family spokesman Bob Gunnell said there was no ...