The former boxer expressed regret for not focusing more on his own professional career, confessing that his brother never ...

The boxing world paused in reflection this week as news spread of Rahman Ali's death at the age of 82. Known to millions as ...

Rahman Ali, younger brother of Muhammad Ali, passed away at 82. He was a boxer and a key support for his brother. Rahaman ...

Ali and Frazier first met at Gleason's Gym, in Brooklyn, New York, in 1966. Muhammad Ali was already an established champion, while Frazier was climbing the ranks, after winning gold at the 1964 ...

"Muhammad Ali is a great fighter, I have a lot of respect for him," he said. "I didn't know the story of the gym when I started here," he said. "I came here and I saw all these names. It's just ...

Since then, the gym has produced many a famous boxer. Legends all the way from Jake LaMotta and Muhammad Ali all the way to Mike Tyson have trained at Gleason's. Accomplished boxers made the gym ...

In this Feb. 8, 1962, file photo, young fighter Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) is seen at City Parks Gym in New York.

That made his comeback to the sport in 1970 all the more exciting. Ali fought his last fight in 1981 and passed away in 2016. "It was Superman and it was Muhammad Ali,” Holt said.

Ali became the most famous athlete of the 20th century, and that short fight in Lewiston was one of the seminal moments of his long career. Ahead of Ali was his stance as a conscientious objector.

In 1970, Muhammad Ali was broke, fighting to stay out of prison, and desperate. As fate would have it, the cavalry came to his aid in the form of people from Martin Luther King Jr.'s orbit.