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Legendary boxer Laila Ali, the undefeated daughter of Muhammad Ali, has undoubtedly helped pave the way for women’s boxing.
George Foreman and Muhammad Ali were bitter rivals before the two men formed a lifelong friendship remembered after Foreman died Friday at 76. Sports newsletter 🏈's best, via 📧 Studio IX ...
Superman vs. Muhammad Ali plays the story as straight as it can, shooting for an audience with no concern for who might be looking over the readers shoulder. Here’s what the reader finds.
Ali did his best to sell the fight. He arrived in London with his brother Rudy and, according to Remnick, readily posed for pictures with everyone while wearing a three-piece suit and bowler hat. He ...
With the exception of George Foreman, Muhammad Ali fought all of his big-fight rivals more than once. The Sporting News takes a deep dive into the reasons why a sequel to The Rumble in the Jungle ...
One of the most defining moments of Foreman’s career came in 1974 when he faced Muhammad Ali in the legendary Rumble in the Jungle in Kinshasa, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo).
On May 25, 1965, in 4,000-seat St. Dominic's Arena (now the Colisée), Ali delivered what many called "the phantom punch," knocking Sonny Liston down in the first round and retaining his title.
“Based on the first fight in Miami, Sonny (then 33 years old) was now an old man, and Ali had beaten the daylights out of him in Miami, it wasn’t even close,” he said. The rematch was over ...
The African nation of Zaire was elated. Its president, Mobutu Sese Seko, had struck a deal in 1974 for the country to host potentially the biggest boxing contest in history: Muhammad Ali, a legend ...
When Muhammad Ali knocked down Sonny Liston on May 25, 1965, a 22-year-old photographer named Neil Leifer was ringside. Decades later, the image he captured still has our attention.