Aside from being a four-time world champion at heavyweight, Holyfield was also the first fighter in the sport’s history to ...

It took less than 2 minutes for Muhammad Ali, then a 23-year-old heavyweight fighter, to take down the 34-year-old Sonny Liston on May 25, 1965 in Lewiston, Maine. The fight came a year after Ali ...

Muhammad Ali would have beaten any of today's super heavyweight boxers, according to the ex-champ's biographer. ... Mike Tyson defeated Muhammad Ali in a fantasy final watched by 200,000 people.

Rasheda Ali Walsh hugs her son Nico Ali Walsh after he defeated Jordan Weeks during a middleweight boxing bout Saturday. AP. ... who promoted 27 of Muhammad Ali’s fights.

Muhammad Ali, three-time world ... And, indeed, in 1964 - at the age of 22 - he defeated big Sonny Liston to become the world heavyweight champion, the youngest boxer ever to hold the title.

Ali defeated Foreman, who to that point had a 40-0 record as a boxer. The career admittedly ended on a bit of a sour note. Ali fought his last 4 matches from 1978-1981, and lost 3 of them ...

Former heavyweight boxing champion Leon Spinks Jr., who defeated Muhammad Ali for the world heavyweight title in 1978, has died. He died Friday after a five-year battle with prostate and other ...

Leon Spinks, who unexpectedly defeated Muhammad Ali to win the world heavyweight boxing championship in 1978, only to lose his title seven months later and become something of a cautionary tale ...

Canadian heavyweight George Chuvalo, who Ali defeated in a 15-round decision in 1966 in Toronto, ... Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr./Muhammad Ali. Born: Jan. 17, 1942, in Louisville.

Muhammad Ali, the three-time ... He more fully burst onto the public scene in 1964, when as a 7-1 underdog he fought and defeated Sonny Liston for the professional heavyweight championship.

Muhammad Ali’s death Friday brought his longtime friend and promoter Bob Arum to recall the former ... Ali, then known as Cassius Clay, defeated Liston by technical knockout in the seventh ...

'Muhammad Ali,' which will be shown on PBS for four nights starting Sept. 19, ... who sparred and lived with Ali and later defeated him in a 1980 bout, ...