REUTERS - Important bouts in the career of former heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali: * Sept. 5, 1960 - Wins the Olympic light-heavyweight gold medal in Rome in a unanimous decision over Zbigniew ...

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”, ...

1950 — Detroit’s Wally Triplett gains 294 yards in kickoff returns and ends up with 331 total yards as the Lions pound the Los Angeles Rams 65-24 on 41 third-quarter points. 1960 — Cassius Clay ...

LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — October 2, 1980, was a bittersweet day for boxing and heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali. On this day in history, Ali fought his seventh and final fight in Las Vegas against Larry ...

As he taunted Joe Frazier, former heavyweight champion of the world, Muhammad Ali, current champ, pointed at the custom black T-shirts he and his entourage sported as they crashed the Aug. 26, 1975, ...

Before his ultimate retirement from boxing, the late Muhammad Ali was warned about taking a certain fight which is believed to have contributed to his debilitating health issues. Fresh from his ...

“Time may well erode that long morning of drama in Manila,” Mark Kram wrote of the fight for Sports Illustrated, “but for anyone who was there those faces will return again and again to evoke what it ...

Peacock's new crime thriller Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist tells a shocking but true-to-life story of the 1970 heist that occurred in Atlanta on the heels of Muhammad Ali's comeback fight ...