Witherspoon, a two-time heavyweight world champion and former sparring partner to Muhammad Ali, stood in the middle of a boxing ring at Fighter’s Heaven in Deer Lake. The two punch mitts on his hands ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The tale of Louisville native Muhammad Ali throwing an Olympic gold medal off the Second Street Bridge and into the Ohio River is ...

Muhammad Ali redefined heavyweight boxing—he broke every rule about how big men should fight. Across 21 years as a professional, Ali won 56 fights (37 by knockout) and lost only 5. Ali turned fights ...

“He boxed, he clowned, he lectured and he performed magic,” Gazette Sports Editor Mike Chapman wrote about the day that three-time world heavyweight boxing champ Muhammad Ali visited Cedar Rapids on ...

There has never been anybody in the history of boxing quite like Muhammad Ali. To earn nicknames like “The Greatest” and “The People’s Champion”, you have to be something special, and Ali was.