The ring was set up in a sandlot baseball stadium, surrounded by
rickety bleachers and folding chairs.
Someone had forgotten the bell, so they rang a cowbell to begin
and end rounds. Someone else had forgotten the key to the padlock
for the gate, so the crowd waited two hours to get in.
It was Dec. 11, 1981, a quarter-century ago.
And Muhammad Ali was in denial.
``I'm going to dance all night,'' he said.
The site was ...
With a boxing world that is currently filled with lavish visual displays, clever nicknames and a lot of promotion, it's often difficult for the actual event to live up to it's highly publicized promise. Through all of the years and many competitions, there is one boxing event that has held it's appeal and remains one of the most legendary in the sport's history. Simply referred to as 'The Fight of ...
Another Ali will box at Madison Square Garden.
Laila Ali, the daughter of boxing great Muhammad Ali, will make her debut 35 years after her father lost to Smokin Joe Frazier at the Garden.
She'll be on the Nov. 11 undercard of the IBF heavyweight bout between champion Wladimir Klitschko and undefeated Calvin Brock. All three appeared at a news conference Tuesday at Madison Square Garden.
Ali, the WBC light ...
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) _ Another Ali is going to fight in Africa.
Nearly 32 years after Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in the Rumble in the Jungle, his daughter, Laila, plans to fight this summer in Cape Town, South Africa.
``There's a lot of love for Ali in South Africa,'' she said Friday. ``I'm following in my dad's ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Laila Ali will fight Aug. 5 in Cape Town, South Africa, against an unidentified opponent.
It will be Ali's first fight in Africa, where her father, Muhammad Ali, knocked out George Foreman in 1974 for the heavyweight title in the famed ``Rumble in the Jungle'' in Kinshasa, Congo.
The bout will benefit the Nelson Mandela Foundation and ...
NEW YORK (AP) _ Parkinson's disease has diminished his voice and slowed his body, but Muhammad Ali still exercises regularly in a gym at his home, punching a heavy bag and sometimes sparring playfully in a boxing ring, his wife says.
He hasn't driven a car in 15 years and ``he's no longer the type to pick up the phone and call friends ...
By Matt Moore
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) _ Boxing legend Muhammad Ali was honoured at the World Economic Forum on Saturday for his efforts to promote dialogue and understanding between the Muslim and western worlds.
Clad in a black suit and accompanied by his wife, Yolanda, Ali stood up shakily to receive the first-ever ...
