Boxers
The retired boxer Butterbean is more than a name. The bald, 300-pound fighter was famous for his stature and boxing expertise.
Floyd Mayweather took part in yet another debacle of an exhibition fight in Abu Dhabi.
Mike Tyson used to lash out at fans when he couldn’t control his anger, but he’s found a helpful solution in retirement.
Jake Paul thinks Conor McGregor would be an easier opponent than Tyron Woodley.
Muhammad Ail is the greatest boxer of all time but also a study in contradictions. He loved to box but hated to train. He stood up for Black people everywhere but ruined Joe Frazier by cruelly questioning his Blackness. Ali also proudly stood up against the U.S. government for its war in Vietnam and the draft, yet gladly took […]
Muhammad Ali and George Foreman fought an iconic bout in 1974 in Zaire, Africa and both sides went to incredible lengths to ensure fairness.
Muhammad Ali biographer Jonathan Eig shared a new theory as to why Sonny Liston may have taken a dive in the boxers’ second bout. In an unearthed, unaired TV interview, Sonny Liston’s wife once said that the fighter needed to get out of the ring as fast as possible because he had diarrhea.
Muhammad Ali became The Greatest through skill, talent, and determination, but where and when he was born played a big role in it too. Growing up in Louisville and not the deep South meant that a young Cassius Clay got opportunities that other young Black people didn’t get in the 1950s.
Nico Ali Walsh, who is making his pro boxing debut, hoped as a young teen that grandfather Muhammad Ali would tell him to give up his boxing ambitions.
The “Rocky” film series likely doesn’t exist had there been a rematch between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman following the famed “Rumble in the Jungle.”